I'm Optimistic. Why?

[Bigcheecho]

Jagex's Ace of Spades hasn't even been up for a year, and it's already dying.

Chances are, they're probably going to sell it to one of these 4 if the mapmaker doesn't bring 1.x back on it's legs:

Some other large game company (i.e. Activision)
Mat^2
Buld then Snip LLC (us)
Ben Aksoy

Discuss.

[Jdrew]

Ben is done with games I bet, and mat is working on his own game. I doubt they will give it to us as thats not what Jagex does nor does B&S have money to do that. It will most likely turn into 8realms/funorb/mechscape/runescape.

[GreaseMonkey]

I doubt they'll give it to anyone.

What you should focus your optimism on instead is, um...
Here's a good reference for you.

[Bigcheecho]

I doubt they'll give it to anyone.

What you should focus your optimism on instead is, um...
Here's a good reference for you.

Yeah, I'm focusing a good portion of my optimism on Iceball, but just what if?

You're right. It's either going to another just as crappy company or it's going to die.

[GreaseMonkey]

If EA took it, afaik it would be shit, but it'd actually make SOME money.

But statistically speaking, Jagex have never ever sold a game to another company. So it's just going to die.

[QuaziMotorola]

I highly doubt Ben or Mat will buy it, and if I was a famous game developer, I wouldn't buy anything from Jagex. Sorry man, but I think Ace of Spades is done for, unless someone decides to buy it. Maybe if B&S had a Kickstarter then they could save up enough money to buy it back. I'm not surprised that it sucks. Jagex is where games go to die and whither.

[bullets]

If I were a famous game developer I would only buy it to get the rights to 0.75/76 Source.

[awesomeness2000]

i dont think Actuvision would take it. they take more serious games!

[Battlefire]

Guy's it's going to die. No matter what happen's it's going to die...I looked in the future with my snow globe. Even though I didn't need to.

[CommieBuffalo]

Guy's it's going to die. No matter what happen's it's going to die...I looked in the future with my snow globe. Even though I didn't need to.

This type of pigeon-headed attitude of "eh we are going to die anyway, not worth to do anything" is what is going to bring us down.

[Bigcheecho]

Please stop responding to this, it's an old thread & no longer reflective of my opinion.

Also, a PM response I found humorous:

Subject: I'm Optimistic. Why?

Jagex's Ace of Spades hasn't even been up for a year, and it's already dying.

Chances are, they're probably going to sell it to one of these 4 if the mapmaker doesn't bring 1.x back on it's legs:

Some other large game company (i.e. Activision)
Mat^2
Buld then Snip LLC (us)
Ben Aksoy

Discuss.

activison is a PUBLISHER not a developer you little kid
you mean (i.e Treyarc) they are the best!