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Runescape is SHUTTING DOWN on 8-8-08

by Connor, May 7, 2008

WHAT? Newly released, Jagex has announced that RuneScape will be shutting down for good on August 8th of this year. FunOrb will be their main focus.

Not everybody knows yet, but Jagex posted on the Runescape main website Runescape that Runescape will be shut down as of August 8th, 2008. This article inquires as to why and how.

The News

Jagex Ltd. posted on the Runescape website that the game will be shut down on August 8th, 2008. The story is not up on the front page; you will have to dig deeper. If you click on “Browse the News Archives” button, you will see a “Website Update” about 2/3rds of the way down that says “Runescape Shutting Down.” The story has no date, but if you click on the story, it reads:

“We're sorry to inform you that RuneScape will no longer exist as of August 8th, 2008. The credit card companies have sued us for too much money for how much the game brings Jagex profit. Too many people were using stolen cards to fund their member accounts, and Runescape is going down with the stealers. It has been a good run, but all good things must come to an end. All monthly credits will be backcredited to the accounts from which they were taken from. […]”

This has come as a shock to all players, but some players had seen it coming for years. “I knew the moment they announced trade restrictions and killed Player Killing in the Wilderness,” says Fredmcgarry, a longtime player of the game. Fredmcgarry, along with thousands of others, is quitting.

An old picture of Fredmcgarry

Runescape shutting down means millions of unhappy gamers that will likely flock to other MMORPGs, such as WoW, or other multiplayer games, such as Xbox Live.

Jagex's headquarters in London will be auctioned off on January 1st, 2009. Server locations (US, Amsterdam, Australia, Canada) will be boarded up and sold to private investors.

“There may even be a riot or two at various places around the world,” says game philosopher Ahmed Ypanovvik (formerly Runescape “Choppermad”). Ypanovvik, who lives in Uzbekistan, is leading the fight to keep the game running till mid 2009, but his hopes look bleak.

What to Expect

  • Packed forums
  • Unresponsive Jagex Company
  • Ingame moderators downplaying things
  • No new updates
  • Advertisements on the Runescape page to their other games
  • Lots of unhappy players
  • Maybe a real world riot or two
  • Thousands of ingame riots

So there you have it, plain and simple. Runescape is closing.

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Comments (61)
#1 by dude, May 7, 2008
y do all people come up with unreal things to get views i hate you people!!!!
#2 by Lol, May 7, 2008
Lol, he's trying to make you read articles because of the title and gain money by triond to pay runescape membership or something, my question is why didn't decline these clearly untrue articles? also I've seen more than 1 article contain the same info by this guy.
#3 by Maviel5, May 8, 2008
^Total Agrement^
#4 by dave, May 8, 2008
where is news archive, i cant trust until then
#5 by Rahul, May 8, 2008
Wow, what a loser,

Don't belive this n00b
#6 by link77fire, May 9, 2008
wtf no first off how could you even get this info and second of all runescape still has a lot of users still playing and it probably wont be shutting down so quickly gay dont listen to this noob he dosn't know what he is talking about
#7 by lololol, May 9, 2008
man i have never heard of this before when i was playing rs no1 eva told me so i realy dout that this is going to happen
#8 by waine , May 10, 2008
plus if u read read the recent news u will see that runescape is redoing the grapics
#9 by walrik6, May 10, 2008
SHUT IT DOWN??????!!!!!! THATZ KRAZY!!!!!!!!!
#10 by animalrawr, May 11, 2008
why would you even...nvm you get the idea from all ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#11 by Kingofptw, May 11, 2008
Heh, doing everything to get a free runescape membership don't you?

Please don't submit bad press, it's pretty intelligent from you but it's stupid.
#12 by Runescape0wner, May 12, 2008
U lieing right... ={}
#13 by Connor, May 12, 2008
Jagex couldn't sue me lol you little kid. If people know this is fake, why give me money and attention by clicking and commenting?
#14 by catsoul112, May 19, 2008
u lying dumb noob. wat the crap?everyone nos there making graphic updates so they wouldnt be shutting down soon. think u noob think.
#15 by catsoul112, May 19, 2008
P.S. nice try dude. but it aint happening. srry. lol. wow.
#16 by BlueXblade_1, May 19, 2008
lol. Guys dont beleive him. hes a noob thats obviosly very confused rite now.hes tryin yall.
#17 by kinderhero97, May 29, 2008
its me agn how old r u?
#18 by connor, May 29, 2008
dude cant u c y im doing this im adopted
#19 by um...yea, Jun 1, 2008
yea dude, try and get some attention in a better way than this
#20 by um...yea, Jun 1, 2008
and btw the headquarters isn't in london, it's in cambridge
#21 by a happy player of runescape, Jun 8, 2008
you are a freakin retarted why would they close down runescape. dudes! u freaked me out i was all sad cause of you, im only 11 ok y do thises to kids huh, u really r mean and are a terrible person!
#22 by omg!!!!!!!!, Jun 8, 2008
y the hell would they shut it down just get a better machine and track down the guys who are using different credit crads and put them in jail u peice of sh**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#23 by i h8 you u r a jerk!, Jun 8, 2008
why do this i am also a happy player of runescape dude come on im 11 how can u do that u really freaked me out! y do that y! cause ur a freakin jerk huh ! man ur so pathetic i would smash u in ur stomach turn ur head 180 degrees so u could see me kicking ur but!
#24 by urspellingisunpossible, Jun 8, 2008
"Jagex's headquarters in London will be auctioned off on January 1st, 2009. Server locations (US, Amsterdam, Australia, Canada) will be boarded up and sold to private investors."

the building wouldn't be auctioned off stupid, they would clear out and rent it. plus the gowers are worth like, $223m american anyways, they could pay off 3 months of macro credit easy.

also the servers are huge, they'd probably just hock them for $13,000 apiece and keep developing java software in their building that they wouldn't have to auction off

people like this are why the human race is declining in intelligence
#25 by taking things into player moderation..., Jun 8, 2008
this connor kid dosen't seem to be active on his own article, but i think it's because you guys disemboweled him verbally.

just to debunk a few things:

"Maybe a real world riot or two"
this just proves how young this player is because how would they organize for an actual riot? "all 5 of us in america will stand on my lawn and yell at jagex in england (god save the queen) because we're angry over a game" typical childish small thinking, i have a young brother who thinks 5 meters is big. of course i ran the 100 meter in track so through experiance i see how small it is


"Thousands of ingame riots"
how would this happen when there are only 161 worlds? even if they did organize in 5 cities you would still have 805 "riots" and jagex would be quot en quotis "shutting down" so why would they care if you spent an hour logged in and getting carpal tunnel?

putting people in their place since 1990,
magepalko
#26 by sex, Jun 9, 2008
sex
#27 by zezima, Jun 12, 2008
This is exactly why I quit runescape. People like Connor.
#28 by lol, Jun 13, 2008
looks like we all gave him what he wanted, posts and notoriety lmao
#29 by lol , Jun 13, 2008
ps what a douche bag he is
#30 by H1xxy, Jun 13, 2008
Im pretty sure the person who wrote this is just doing this so he could get a reaction
#31 by pooponu, Jun 13, 2008
i bet u are really \"fredmcgarry\"
cheap ass
#32 by mugger, Jun 13, 2008
connor i kick your teeth, right down your throat
#33 by booga, Jun 13, 2008
u eat boogers connor
#34 by mugger, Jun 13, 2008
i could beleive you but hole
#35 by mugger, Jun 13, 2008
lol you poop
#36 by sguevara + zellines1, Jun 13, 2008
zellines1 if you here this ily dont ever forget me ,... =}
#37 by neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek, Jun 13, 2008
ur a neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
#38 by ggghhg2, Jun 13, 2008
everyone runescape shut down i am very mad really
#39 by ggghhg2, Jun 13, 2008
is any1 talking again yo wat r yall doing only jagex mods are online right now making the better graphix for the summerthere juzworking on the grphix so no wwrys nleesss they found a keylogger to destroy runesccape and its player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#40 by MArk, Jun 13, 2008
Hes\' right... look at this link from the jagex website - http://www.wowomg.com.

I cant belive it.
#41 by ggghhg2, Jun 13, 2008
yo sum1 check if ppl are playing now
#42 by zezima not him im sguevara ..victor, Jun 13, 2008
zezima must b mad asss hell right now he spend ed his hole life in runescape
#43 by zezima not him im sguevara ..victor, Jun 13, 2008
zezima must b mad asss hell right now he spend ed his hole life in runescape
#44 by posiden309, Jun 18, 2008
you lying peice of crap how could you tell such lies like this
if runescape were shutting down then how do you suppose we werent notified as a friend to a jagex member he will be notified and this website will be shutdown
#45 by being ian3, Jun 21, 2008
you r shuch a loser RuneScape is not closing!!!
#46 by pkerbh23, Jul 3, 2008
fak u all man i think it will be shutdown or just wait to see what is going to happen in 8-8-8........kkkkk n00bs
#47 by ffffff, Jul 6, 2008
if runescape was closing down then y have they just done a graphics update
#48 by shifty, Jul 6, 2008
Exactly why would you wanna shut down the whole thing.they
just did the biggest update which was graphics.It should be on the runescape news if it was or you just might of copy and pasted the (jagex ltd) thing.
#49 by lol, Jul 11, 2008
you loosers this is true, stop thinking that their not so you feel better!well guess what!they are shutting it down!!now get a life!
#50 by brent, Jul 23, 2008
its about freakin time! thats all my brother does and it rules his life this will give him a reason to be little more active. its about time because this is kinda a fat nation if you havnt heard now little 10-18 can finally get a life
#51 by LIAR, Jul 25, 2008
LIAR
#52 by Super Llama, Jul 25, 2008
Dude that's impossible because ON THE RUNESCAPE SITE it says that they will be RAISING the prices on 8/15/08, which is AFTER your pretend canceling date. They obviously will still be there so quit lying to get views!
#53 by Staff., Jul 26, 2008
To every one who reads this comment.

Were not shutting down RuneScape.
RuneScape will be online for many years to come.

Whom who wrote this letter will recieve a letter of warning.
If the offender chooses not to follow the instructions we will issue a penalty towards his intolerance and fine them.

Enjoy RuneScape.
#54 by The Duke, Jul 28, 2008
well

as you can see even the staff said it aint going down.

i play Runescape every day and im a member =p

my Runescape name is Duke Marko. look me up on highscores
im sure u wont beleive ur eyes 0_0
#55 by Ss5 Gogeta6, Jul 30, 2008
I'm not exactly sure if that guy is Jagex staff... Still, I saw the post that said money amount is changing on 8/15/08. Besides' I here Durial321 the leader of the falador massacre is going to plan another big player killing massacre on 8/8/08. My account name is Ss5 Gogeta6. Add me if u want. I am lvl 50.
#56 by hello, Aug 5, 2008
wtf that is gay it is not shutting down u nub who would believe that fun orb sucks!!!!!my account name is mrmanly26 add me im a lvl 80 and runescape rocks!!!!!!!
#57 by stupid dumb N00B, Aug 5, 2008
u idiot! y would jagex work on these new graphics so dat they can shut down after 1 month?! and give us a link to what u are saying
#58 by djmandjfs, Aug 10, 2008
dude wtf this isn't possable they r making new and newer updates we dont care what you have to say so why dont you stop making things up?
#59 by Kalphite Queen, Aug 12, 2008
hello Runescape fans / players

im looking for a bunch of bold & brave warriors to take me on
in my Kalphite lair.

im a lv 333 boss of the desert. i use mage in form of lightning
range in the form of black darts & i hit over 30 with my melee if u wander to close

you MUST be a member to reach my lair but... if you succeed i might drop a dragon chain body for you :P

take me on if you think you can.
#60 by Ss5 Gogeta6, Aug 22, 2008
Its after 8/8/08! And runescape is still going strong! There will be new worlds where you can pk anywhere! I'm sorry people who think Runescape is shutting down, it isn't. More form Ss5 Gogeta6
#61 by aaron, Oct 18, 2008
dude runescape wont shut down u retard, its alredy past 8/8/8 its 2 months past it btw and theres now PvP in runescape and 10k trade limit.

NERD

rs username = yomamafatt or runer4ng3 and basic phat :D msg me if u want lol
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