Runescape Co-Founder Andrew Gower Interview

Runescape recently hit 1 million paying subscribers and seems to go from strength to strength in the MMORPG game industry. It is a lucrative market and is showing signs of crossing into the marketing plans of many major industries as the world takes their lives into virtual environments.

I came across this Andrew Gower Interview about runescape and its future. It is an interesting read for the runescape demographic in some regard. I have also noticed that runescape came about through his exposure to text based MUDs - I also discovered text based MUDs while at university and did look at creating one myself (although at the time I asked myself the same questions about making it different to all the others - I settled on keeping it generic as I was not really that much into the programming side of things).

Anyway, nowadays I am getting more into the programming aspect - well more into websites rather than applications development - although I do have the intention of being able to get learning some of the web development technologies available today.

The interview is a rare interview and as Andrew stated they are concentrating more on the product than the marketing - so I wouldn't expect many more interviews to be surfacing. It does prove that they are still 100% focussed on developing the actual game itself and that has to be good news for all runescape players.

Runescape Merchandise

Runescape is a very popular MMORPG and with it there has been some merchandise brought out by players that can be bought as gifts for special occasions such as birthdays or christmas.

I have added the ability for people to check a selection of the items available on my runescape help site and it has its own section - runescape merchandise.

I plan to add further direct links as I continue to develop the help site and I am currently looking at implementing a banner rotation to my site (as well as related blogs) that will carry direct links to various merchandise available for runescape.

I am also considering offering some merchandise myself, although I haven't quite looked into designing them yet as I am working on several different aspects of my site behind the scenes. I do intend to keep this section updated on the development, although it will likely be sporadic posting rather than any set pattern.