The secret behind RuneScape's successPosted by sarahbulaiman on October 19th, 2013 Over a decade ago, two brothers working out of their parents' house in Nottingham set themselves the impossible task of building their Runescape 3 Gold , a genre that later evolved into the MMOs we know today. RuneScape launched to the public in 2001 as a low-res browser game with only a few hundred players and 2-D sprites for monsters, but several years later it boasted over a million paying monthly subscribers. The 2007 Sunday Times Rich List even estimated the Gower brothers' business empire to be worth over £113,000,000, due almost entirely to RuneScape. Like it? Share it!More by this author |