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Unread 7 Mar 2011, 13:06   #34
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Re: Jagex Introduction / Q&A

For crying out loud....

The game has virtually no value in itself without the name / domain.
According to some of the sane modern methods to measure the worth of a domain, the domain is worth about 1500 Euros or thereabout. (Based on traffic, pagerank, links in, estimated annual advertisement-revenue etc)
Add some 1000 active players, and the value jumps to around 6.500 Euros.

The value of the game is kind of 0, kind of not, and kind of negative.
If the value of the name / players etc are to be "realized" at some point, the game will require serious investment in terms of development.

I do not think anyone can expect to buy it and make a financial profit, when you factor in the running costs (every hour counts).
The only exception I can see is of course to join the previous owners strategy, buy it cheap, get as many credits sold as possible in about a year without dedicating resources towards it, and then try to sell it again...With a little luck, there are a few bucks to be made this way. But the value and players drop for every time it is bought and sold...
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