Everyone has been asking and wondering about the future of RuneVillage, and we can fill you in some on the current plans by the admin team.

First, let us state than we are angry about the manner in which Jagex has handled this entire incident.  It was not necessary for them to make a public announcement of the reasoning, nor to publically make their statements about hiker, publishing links to his records, home information etc.  They could have simply announced that they had withdrawn support from RV at this time and then worked out the details for new management/ownership in the background.  The majority of comments posted at other fansites tend to agree with this opinion.

Further, Jagex initially stated that they would resume support and "Gold" status once new management/ownership was in place.  However, later they came back and stated that they would not be supporting RuneVillage at all in the future. They have thrown our community out due to something that hiker did 16 years ago.

These events have caused us to re-examine our feelings about the ethics of Jagex as a company and to question what relationship we would wish to have with them and to what extent we would want to support Runescape, even in an unofficial, unsupported position like we did for more than seven of our nine years.

As a result, today we announce that RuneVillage will be moving toward the support of not only other games, but multiple games as well. Please use this topic for other suggestions as well.

Obviously, we already have a segment of Villagers who play "Minecraft" and this wiil be our first area of expansion.  We will ask Villagers to write player guides and such for that game and submit them for publication on the site.

Other expansions could range from a forum just to play "Mafia", running several simultaneous games, along with playing and strategy guides, to full-out support for other multi-player games.

Runescape will continue to be supported much as we have in the past, but will not be the major emphasis of the site.  This will allow us to continue to utilize our massive investment in guides, data, etc.

We will retain the name "RuneVillage" and continue to use the "RuneVillage" domain.  This is our home, and RuneVillage is our history.  Based on examining comments around the web, we feel that there will not be significient long-term negative effects to our name and domain.  New people who find us will not be aware of either Hiker or RuneVillage's past, and those who know now would not have their opinions changed by a different name or a "cleansing" of all vestiges of RuneVillage or Hiker.

Due to it's popularity, we will continue to utilize our medieval theme, although there will be some minor changes, and RV2 will continue in production with some minor design changes there as well.  Some of the features of RV2.0 have been redesignated to RV2.1 and it's being streamlined somewhat to move the project along.  Glodenox and Demon will have the responsibiity of the technical direction, along with the assistance of Dark Paladin and the guides/maps/data team and other members of the website team.

Runes exist and are used by games other than Runescape, and many games have a medieval atmosphere about them, so we see no problem with continuing to use the name and designs.

Let these past few days be a catalyst for growth and expansion of the Village rather than a negative time.  Let us all come together and build a better, stronger Village!

First, let us state than we are angry about the manner in which Jagex has handled this entire incident.  It was not necessary for them to make a public announcement of the reasoning, nor to publically make their statements about hiker, publishing links to his records, home information etc.  They could have simply announced that they had withdrawn support from RV at this time and then worked out the details for new management/ownership in the background.  The majority of comments posted at other fansites tend to agree with this opinion.

Further, Jagex initially stated that they would resume support and "Gold" status once new management/ownership was in place. However, later they came back and stated that they would not be supporting RuneVillage at all in the future. They have thrown our community out due to something that hiker did 16 years ago.

Bring back Hiker then.

Bring back Hiker then.

I noticed there was nothing mentioned about hiker. What's the news with this guy? What does the admins plan to do with him?

Then I read this...


I strongly disagree.

Each domain name costs us a certain amount of money per year. Sadly enough, minevillage.com seems to have been bought already by someone (yet their server doesn't seem to react in any way). It's probably a minecraft server or so.

There is however always the option of making a minecraft.runevillage.com subdomain

Greetings,
Glodenox

im pretty sure cam was kidding, as we got rid of hiker, did what jagex asked and they went back on what they said they would do.

Someone likes to randomly quote, say something nice, THEN read it later.

Glode,

Back when we did the Minevillage April Fool's Joke, I purchased the domain name. I simply made a meta refresh to Runevillage.com at the time. I can find the post I made about it if I still have access to it.

If you wish to get the name off of me, we can surely figure it out.