Kongregate Purchase Funorb Games? page 2

Originally posted by Thorock:

amazed RS has lasted over a decade, a once truly great browser mmo and also one of the first true online experiences of my life!

Yeah Runescape is still going. I don’t know how well, but they’ve added a good amount of new content, but I haven’t played in several years so I can’t really pass fair judgement on Runescape.

Runescape was my first MMORPG that I played in my life, about 4th or 5th grade if I recall… Back before they even had a minimum age requirement, and the language scensoring was really really picky compared to how it is now. My younger brother and I were members on Runescape for about a year and a half, after we played as free players for a year or so.

Eventually I got burned out from playing Runescape everyday all day. So Funorb came out and my brother and I played that for a while and eventually became members on there for about a year. It was really fun.

My brother and I came back to play Funorb about a matter of a couple months ago. Being that Funorb was so great, and seeing how it had been abandoned (sad :C ), I decided to google, “is funorb dead”, and I came across a section of the forums on Funorb that was titled, “Funorb is Dead, not the Games”, and so I posted response there a started a thread here on Kongregate. I posted weblinks on both forums connecting these threads.

My and the many other fans of Funorb hope is that the games can be saved. So keep the responses coming, spread the word about Funorb, get people involved, and hopefully the games will survive, though Funorb may perish.

Originally posted by MaistlinRajere:

The same company that recently released the game “Ace of Spades” on “Steam”, and owns “Runescape”

Every time I see punctuation used like this, I literally die inside a little bit. There’s no need for quotes.

Sorry, as stated I’m new to the forums, and I didn’t know how to underline the text. And don’t die, human life is too valuable. =O

Originally posted by adv0catus:

Originally posted by eProdigy:

The question is whether or not Jagex is abandoning/selling Funorb (in which case Kongregate would be able to buy it).

My thoughts exactly.

Can a business owned by another business buy a business?

Yes.

Correct. A business can buy another business. In fact anyone can buy the rights to just about anything they want if they they’re being sold, and said party has the funds to purchase. Or another way is if the rights expire, as such with patents, than anyone can buy them for as low a price as they want, and then sell them for really high prices to the company that will actually do things with the patents or such rights, and make great profits.

Originally posted by Funnykidsc:

Originally posted by eProdigy:

The question is whether or not Jagex is selling Funorb (in which case Kongregate would be able to buy it).

Fixed.
There is no question about whether or not they abandoned it. The last time Jagex updated Funorb was September… of 2010.

Yes it seems it’s been abandoned for a little over 2 years now. Hopefully someone will save the games.

30 Posts Here!
8 Posts on other thread!
38 Posts Total!

Thank you for the posts!
I post often as to try to keep these threads alive.

Keep the posts Coming! Save Funorb’s games!

I doubt Kongregate is going to seriously consider this. We’ll see!

Why? Just let the website die and move on.
Time to get over yourself, kid.

Jagex is still keeping the games up apparently, and are just not updating them. The Fanbases of the games probably wouldn’t like the idea of the games either being moved or being updated by another company. Not to mention I highly doubt this would be a profitable move for Kongregate.