Interview with Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard - Part 1 of 3, Getting to Know Mark and Jagex

Part one of a series of interviews with new Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard. In this part, the topic is Mark's history, and the company as a whole. Mark talks about what kind of tech Jagex works with every day (more than you'd think), as well as his goal to change the public image of Jagex and make it more accessible to players of RuneScape and their other titles.

[Coyotegrey]

I'd like him more if he bought me a cake...or a pie. Pies are good too.

[iheartdestr0y]

I know plenty of people who spent months of time on Runescape, I'll send this to them. Maybe it'll break the spell...

[ahnonamis]

It's actually not a bad game if you can ignore the godawful graphics.

[bozebo]

yes, it used to be very good.
until they ruined the economy, ruined some skills, ruined many combat techniques... etc.
the core gameplay is still nice, but it was far better and more balanced in 2006.

[italianbreadman]

Interesting interview.

[forthegamergood]

RuneScape is like crack. It's dirty, and no one talks about it, but secretly, everyone always wonders what it's like. Great game, though.

[Nightfallen]

For a browser game, it's friggen huge.

[dan_chan89]

used to be addicted to this in my early teens. glad i got out xD

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Used to play this game a lot, and occasionally still log in, but it sucks now.

Not fun anymore, community went down hill.

[Yawnier]

I played this game for 2 years before finally quitting it, it just got boring and then i realized how I wasted my time on that game and how god awful the graphics were.

It was a pretty fun game to play with friends though.

Very addicting game at first so, for newcomers, don't say you haven't been warned.

[PotNoodle]

Played this back when it was only runescape classic ( http://www.zybez.net/img/ne...

then played it on and off on when runescape 2 came out. The game is good, aslong as you remember to turn public chat on friends or off - that is one of the only bad things about that game - the fact it is infested with idiots.

[DreamcastFanboy]

I remember when i was addicted to this game like four or three years ago. It's honestly not that bad of game.

[-MD-]

Poor mans Warcraft.

[ahnonamis]

RuneScape's a few years older than WoW.

[-MD-]

And?