"It really wasn't earning any money, but we had invested so much effort at this point that there were a lot of OSRS gold RuneScape didn't reach its highest levels without making a few mistakes in the process.
Some of us who played it regularly in the late 2000s would be struggling with the very first version, now known as RuneScape Classic. It was possible to attack anyone even their opponents. The graphics were stunning. The game could only hold 1,200 players at a time without crashing.
Games aren't allowed to make mistakes anymore. Titanfall 2 isn't getting the resources needed to repair its online gameplay on PC. Anthem was scrapped during the course of the game's major overhaul. Fable Legends was canceled before it even had the chance to launch. Now, you have to be Fortnite or perish trying.
The enthusiasm of a developer may be not relevant to a publisher and vice versa. Dragon Age 4 has been cancelled twice because of high-level interference that constantly dictates the game's direction. Metal Gear fans who clearly want single-player gameshave received the co-op title Metal Gear Survive in 2018. It's not even to discuss the companies Activision Blizzard wastes on constant Call of Duty development.
Thank god Jagex began its existence at a time that it was able to remain an independent. As the player base began to fall off in the mid 2000s an editor would probably have cut off the entire thing. The truth is, Raven Software started laying people off, while Warzone generated billions of buy OSRS GP dollars, so any success could mean disaster for the players behind the game.