Stellar Dawn/MechScape Show Woefully Substandard Community Relations In the end, 8Realms gathered a whopping ten percent of the income needed to stay afloat, and was trashed in beta.ģ. One with little payout, considering only one player could actually win and then all of your money spent was for nothing. In all, the game was one giant race to the end, and whenever someone made it to the end, the entire server was wiped and everyone started again.įor a game attempting to coerce players into opening their wallets for those delicious gems, 8Realms was set to be a very expensive experience. I gave a quick hands-on impression of 8Realms, and while the game was enjoyable, it carried a fatal caveat: regular server wipes. 8Realms was supposed to be Jagex’s first in-house game developed on a platform other than Java, not to mention Jagex’s first developed game to feature a fully functioning cash shop that offered real advantages to throwing large sums of money. To top things off…Ī second blow to Funorb fans. To this day, the Funorb website still does not display any indication that the service has been discontinued, unless you count that the latest news post is dated 2010.įunorb still runs today, likely because there are still a small number of people who still hold on to the service and the website probably costs very little to keep running, but it is fully discontinued and has no moderators working on it.
Instead Jagex whisked the Funorb developers silently, without informing anyone that development had ceased, and moved the entire team over to 8Realms. Not only did Jagex abandon Funorb when the service wasn’t as profitable as they had hoped, there was never an official announcement that development had ceased. FunOrb Was Abandoned And Left For DeadĪs per numerous Jagex posts on the RuneScape forums, Funorb is discontinued and no longer supported. What is the difference, you ask? Well, the RuneScape category is successful and the “Not RuneScape” category is not.ġ.
In the Jagex family you really only fit into one of two categories: RuneScape and Not RuneScape.
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