Comments on: Exclusive Andrew Gower interview

By: toomas

toomas — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:35:18 +0000

hey man that runescape game is awesome
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeryyyyyyyyyyy cool i play it every day

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:15:15 +0000

Very interesting article, I actually had the pleasure to contact Mr. Gower recently. Pleasant guy.

By: Meili

Meili — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:39 +0000

Well this is a very nice interview.

You know, as an old player from when Runescape was still very small (and totally free), I am not entirely sure that Jagex has really learned *that much* from their mistakes.

A lot of their updates often have bugs or not well-thought-out content that later needs to be fixed.

Summoning, for example, was so horrendously impractical and unattractive that players pretty much ignored the new content. They had to update this new skill to make it worthwhile.

I am not a developer, of course, just a player but it seems to me that Jagex is not too in touch with their playerbase.

Currently I play Maplestory and, unlike Jagex, they never have to “fix” new skills or content, apart from your regular bugs, of course.

By: Adam Needum

Adam Needum — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:30:35 +0000

MechScape better be awesome when it is released, after all of this waiting that we’ve done for it…

Great interview Bruce, thanks for sharing!

By: Osaka

Osaka — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:02:01 +0000

JAGEX, STOP ‘IMPROVING’ MechScape, get it out already! You can just Q&A what you have now and do what you have to improve as an update!!! We want to explore that seemingly awesome game NOW, any updates can be done later, but we don’t want to wait till later to play it.
So please Q&A this and leave any improvements content-wise (if there is any tech-wise then DO IT ) as updates to come in future months!

By: Sparhawke

Sparhawke — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:26:35 +0000

I love Runescape and though I dont get to play funorb as much as I want i still remember most of the games on the amiga, I am an oldie too lol

I look forward to Mechscape and cant wait till we can finally “announce” it on Sals lol

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:18:40 +0000

Thanks bk
They aren’t the only ones: http://es.gamernook.com/news/view/post/58245/

Several sites seem to think that it is OK to breach my copyright like this. It happens to most of my articles. Which, I suppose, is quite flattering.

By: bk

bk — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:59:38 +0000

I’m not sure if you care about fair use, but this site is quoting your whole interview here:
http://www.zybez.net/community/index.php?showtopic=1287199&st=0&p=11817226&#entry11817226

They link to you at the bottom, but only after showing the entire interview.

Also, the lead in on their main page: http://www.zybez.net, made me assume it was their interview.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:31:10 +0000

Very interesting read; the questions asked really gave some insight into Andrew’s life and the company as a whole.

As a 20 year old who happens to play the game I can say that they’ve made quite a bit of progress throughout the last few years (at least as far as the game is concerned!).
That said, their PR needs a lot of work. ^_^ It’s unfortunate that they don’t have the time for players.

I’m personally looking forward to the new game because I imagine that they’ll have some rather innovative content (especially since they’re strongly opposed to things such as gold farming and macroing, and will have likely designed the game around preventing or diminishing the chance that these things will occur).

By: Luke Knight

Luke Knight — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:53:56 +0000

I find it very interesting how MechScape’s real name hasn’t been revealed yet. It is unprecedented in gaming history for a game to reach internal testing and still have a code-name.

Andrew mentions that MechScape will be made in light of the experience gained from RuneScape. What this means is to avoid the mistakes made with RuneScape. However, if we go on just this philosophy, then MechScape will be a modern-day RuneScape. Since MechScape is also said to be vastly different from RuneScape, there is room for new unforseen problems to arise. In plain words, MechScape may have gameplay flaws. We won’t know until the gamers get to actually try it out. Often, developers don’t see or expect these problems. Look what happened to Age of Conan.