Jagex hasn't always been in the news for the best possible reasons. Which isn't to say anything nefarious and whatnot; it's just that certain decisions from RuneScape's owners haven't gone over particularly well within the long-running MMO's passionate community.
Today is a good day for those fans, and a pretty nice make-good of a past promise: the game's highly controversial cash shop is getting its plug pulled, and as a bonus, Jagex's CEO even went for the jugular on the subject of generative AI. Huh.
Jon Bellamy leads Jagex, and he's not mincing words as to the importance of RuneScape in the lives of hundreds of thousands of players, many of whom have played for decades. As spotted by GamesRadar+, Bellamy took the opportunity during the cash shop shutdown announcement to say a few kind words.
[We] put our communities right at the heart of everything we do, as we always have," he said. "It's not just a cliché or a tagline – that's literally how we run the business and how we build stuff. Our bet is that if we continue to do that, and we do it with high transparency and authenticity, that will pay dividends."
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