Jagex's finances, ownership, operation and trends

[Ren]

Please see the updated 2008 finances thread!

Please see the updated 2008 finances thread!

Please see the updated 2008 finances thread!

Please see the updated 2008 finances thread!

I've gone through Jagex's accounts and made various graphs and such from them. As these are business years 2007 means April 1 2006 to March 31 2007 and so on.


http://www.mechscapeworld.com/images/re ... erview.gif
Various financial indicators.


While advertising and subscription revenue are both shown to be going up, the data indicates that there is a trend towards subscriptions becoming a larger proportion of their primary revenue.


For a long time Andrew had a majority stakeholding in the company, but after Insight invested in Jagex he merely has the largest share. However, Paul and Andrew working together still have over 50%.


At first Constant was the only director, but in 2005 Andrew and Paul joined the board along with the two people from Insight who invested in Jagex.







What do they mean by 'second game' - MechScape? FunOrb?

[Rakshar]

Ren you are my Hero.

[Sadukar123]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

[Rakshar]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

If you want to say RS is "ruined" then you would have to blame it on growth. No entity or particular business decision is at fault for the game as it is today. They grew and decided they wanted to compete as something other then a small-time company. Change is inevidable.

[Qeltar]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

They didn't invade Jagex Towers on a Viking ship, you know.

[kinggabe]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

They didn't invade Jagex Towers on a Viking ship, you know.

Or did they..

[Evil_Entity0]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

They didn't invade Jagex Towers on a Viking ship, you know.

Or did they..

You know how tight-lipped Jagex can be...

[Trem04]

Insight Ventures ruined Runescape?

They didn't invade Jagex Towers on a Viking ship, you know.

Or did they..

Ehehehehe.... I'm so tempted to go out in conspiracy mode again! MUAHAHAHA

I guess it's just coincidence, from what I see of this It depends on how you define "ruined" ultimately.

[Magaoitin]

Fantastic Info!!

Does the 67% turnover reflect the free players becoming members or the turnover in players that left the game due to the January 2007 update. jk...

As I read this I see the Crimson Permanent Assurance sailing the high seas towards Jagex headquarters.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2498206364209961454

And it really makes me wonder what the giant staff of Customer Services does all day.

[Cinderalla]

Awesome information!

Did anyone else notice that Customer Service has the most employees? I wish it was development and technical in the lead.

[Ren]

Did anyone else notice that Customer Service has the most employees? I wish it was development and technical in the lead.

If you want the latest on how many are employed in each area then check out http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarti ... cle_id=746 (the credits).

When I calculated it a while back was 54% support, 42% Development and 4% publishing, but since then things have changed. They created Human Resources from what used to be headed under Publishing and have a lot more jobs in those two departments, as well as having more managerial posts within the other departments.

Oh, and remember that some of the graphics, content and QA staff (around 5 QA staff on last count) are working on MechScape and soon people will be working on ThirdScape as well, whereas the customer support staff are currently only working on RuneScape and FunOrb.

[wkw427]

Interesting, but how does this help with anything?

[Fiery Embri]

Interesting, but how does this help with anything?

...

These are the people who make Runescape, they directly affect EVERYTHING.
Employee distribution and profits say a lot about a company, what they truly value and how they work.