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The Jagex corporate site says that Jagex was founded in December 2001, but according to archive.org, records show entries dating back to November 1999. Also, I don't think that Constant Tedder was in Jagex at the time. (Ian Gower and Rob Law were also prominent staff members since the development of RuneScape, I think). --Ixfd64 04:05, 2004 Aug 14 (UTC)

Contents 1 Protection 2 Paintball caption 3 Game descriptions 4 Cleanup? 5 Wrong Info 6 Andrew Gower 7 JAGeX 8 Euros? 9 Holiday Events 10 Image of the Jagex team? 11 Criticism 12 Date?

[edit] Protection

I've protected this article since it's been vandalized from people anons coming from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sythe.org most likely. I must say though, the name of this company sounds like some medication being marketed from that old military lawyer show on CBS. Karmafist 23:37, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paintball caption

I've added a more descriptive caption to the picture of the staff in paintball gear. It wasn't clear what "As of April 23, 2003" meant, so I changed it to "Released April 23, 2003", which is what it says on the image page. I assume this is supposed to mean that the photo was released (published) by Jagex on that date (and would be current to that time). If anyone can clarify it, please do so. Thanks. Sommers 14:07, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that this article has been pretty thoroughly done, at this point it seems much better than anything else tagged for clean up.

[edit] Game descriptions

Would some short info on what the games all are be useful? OneWeirdDude 18:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I think it could be usefull, the games are not large enough to deserve their own pages, so info about them should go here, IMHO - Redmess 15:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup?

I've removed this tag as this article seems good quality now and I could not find any specific errors and there was no mention of it on the talk page. SandBoxer 22:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Info

The info you guys got seems wrong in one place. Jagex's Corporate Site says that over 5000 subscribed in the first week, not 100. Just though I'd let everyone know before I changed it. Richard x 23:25, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

There is more wrong info in the current amount of players for RuneScape, but I mentioned it already on the talkpage of RuneScape. - Redmess 15:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Gower

Why does 'Andrew Gower' redirect here? There should be more information about Andrew, he deserves an article of his own. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.109.183.157 (talk • contribs).

I agree totally... I will research some info and hopefully make that page. --MasterEagle 05:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I made a page on Andrew Gower with a lot of information about him before he made Jagex. Go check it. :) ~ rih29 21:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JAGeX

I find that a lot of times, Jagex is not spelled "Jagex", but instead is spelled JAGeX. It also appears like this in the picture.--Death motor 20:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I suggest we keep the official spelling, and change the unofficial spelling accordingly. - Redmess 15:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Euros?

At the bottem of the article there is a note saying that it costs 3.20 Euros ($5.00 USD) to become a member... This must be false because JAGeX dosn't do runescape in Europe apart from the UK and we use pounds... Also 1 Euro roughly equils 1 USD

i woudn't kno anything about pounds, euros x-cept USD. it does cost 5.00 USD 2 become a member --jesusfreek2 05:19, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean they "don't do RuneScape in Europe"? I live in Canada, and I can play the game fine and pay for membership in my own currency through PayByCash's affiliation with Jagex. Also, I quickly ran a currency exchange check on $5 USD, and it returned to be €3.92, so it's not that close to roughly being a 1:1 ratio. Agentscott00^(talk) 02:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

...And me living in Norway, I also pay just fine in Norwegian Kroner. However, the amount varies as the currencies do. Every month the amount of NOK I pay equals 5 USD. Clq 05:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holiday Events

There is no information describing previous holiday events, which should be added in —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.251.52.93 (talk • contribs) .

Keep in mind this article is about the company behind RuneScape, not the game itself. For ingame content, see the RuneScape article and its other subarticles. They will have what you're looking for. Agentscott00^(talk) 02:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of the Jagex team?

Where's the image? There's just a broken link there, but I remember seeing a fairly good image earlier. Did it get deleted or something? Anyway, we should either fix the link, get a new image, or delete the broken link, caption, and box it's in. Pyrospirit ^{Talk Contribs} 15:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I'm pretty angry, I uploaded it and now its not in the Wiki Commons anymore... worst of all, I have no idea why.--Surfaced 05:40, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, there's a "free replacement available". Bull, if you ask me. The company has *no* other pictures available, and those that they have are not publicly accessible. I'll re-add it with a better fair-use message. AScott00 22:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

Should this article include criticism of JAGeX? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.197.170.118 (talk) 05:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

So long as its published information and notable, then sure. --Notmyhandle 06:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date?

If memory recalls, Jagex has been around since 1999. At the bottom of the RuneScape main page, it says "1999-2007". I also remember it being around then. I'm going to change the founding to 1999. ~ rih29 23:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Rih, please read the reference before changing factual information. It was founded in 2001 but started unofficially in 1999 when Andrew began development. Please change it back. --Notmyhandle 04:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I changed it, (I don't know why you couldn't change it, but still) but I still think it should be 1999. Since that when it DID begin. In I'm going to add that it was unofficially founded at that date. ~ rih29 21:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Jagex is a seperate entity from its creators - just because development started in 1999, doesn't mean that's when it was founded. Look at the source for the date. Jagex copyrights date to earlier because Andrew transferred the copyrights to his earlier work to Jagex. Comrade Tux 21:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

But Jagex existed in 1999. This deserves some type of mention in the article. ~ rih29 10:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

If you can find a source for that, go ahead and add it. Comrade Tux 17:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Changing back. Comrade Tux 18:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

The source is at the bottom of the freakin' Jagex website. 1999 - 2007. Adding it again. ~ rih29 21:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

The copyright date indicates the date that (some of) the material was copyrighted at, not the date the company was founded at. However, we could put that in the article - just say that "development started in 1999" instead of that the company was unofficially founded in 1999. I just don't like the whole "founded" bit, because the objectives of Andrew and Paul in 1999 (making a game on the side as freelance programmers) and Jagex today (running RS as a commercial operation) are quite different. Comrade Tux 04:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's been a week and some, so I'm going to put in the started development bit. Comrade Tux 05:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)