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News: Decision to cancel MechScape costs Jagex "tens of millions"

— gamesindustry.biz — Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has confirmed that RuneScape successor MechScape has been canned just prior to its... release. The decision, he told GamesIndustry.biz, was made in August when the ... (more) News: Decision to cancel MechScape costs Jagex ...

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MechScape cancellation costs Jagex tens of millions

— gamesbrief.com — It’s a brave CEO who cancels his company’s second largest project after four years of development and... shortly before release. But that’s exactly what Mark Gerhard of Jagex has done with MechScape. The new MMO from the makers of Runescape has been canned shortly before release. When Mark ... (more) MechScape cancellation costs Jagex tens of millions

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Jagex cancels MechScape at significant cost, restarts anew
Massively — ... Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has indeed confirmed the cancellation of MechScape, although you wouldn't quite know it from his comments, which seem excited to be working on a different title with a new direction. This isn't the first time an in-development MMO has been rebooted in favor of a completely new direction, although Tabula Rasa at least kept its original name. Why the sudden decision? According to Gerhard, MechScape wasn't able to avoid the same pitfalls of RuneScape. Of course, making such a move is ...

7 days around the MMO world / November 1
That VideoGame Blog — ... that, they’re increasing the drop rate for repeatable dungeon quests so that it won’t take as long to do them and enabling players to do them more often. In other MMO news: Mythic takes the time limit off Warhammer Online trial. PvP Henchmen have been added to Guild Wars, hooray! The Champions Online C-Store is now open, yay for micro-transactions or something. Mechscape restarted from scratch. The Mac version of ...