[Phoenix Zero]

Finally, the hangover from winning the UK Games Developer of the Year award at the Golden Joysticks on Friday is lifting, albeit slowly. :)

It wouldn’t be right to celebrate this incredible, humbling achievement without expressing our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the entire Jagex community for helping make this landmark achievement a reality. We have never seen so many people simultaneously spit their champagne at each other as when Jagex was announced as the winner! It was truly a vision that will make me smile forever. =D

This award was indeed special as not only was there some really tough competition, but this is one of the only awards voted for by the players themselves rather than an industry “old boys' club”. This year, over 1.2 million votes were cast, ensuring a World Record in itself for the Golden Joystick Awards as the biggest ever player-voted competition, and I would like to believe that most of those votes came from you, our epically sized community, not to mention the small fact that you managed to crash their website four times with all your votes!

The Jagex development team have worked tirelessly over the last eight years, their only concern creating great content for our players and games that we wanted to play ourselves – all totally under the radar of the traditional games industry and press. So while it is nice to be recognised so publicly by the industry (no doubt they will all be thinking about developing online games of their own), I would like to give everyone the assurance that our focus will remain on building great games for our community, and that we’ll continue to work hard and do all we can to try to live up to this prestigious award.

So, once again, many thanks to you all! The credit goes to our much-loved players and we hope that our entire Jagex community will share in the success along with the team at Jagex. A big cheers to all the players!

Mod MMG & Andrew

[Avicenna]

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Finally, the hangover from winning the UK Games Developer of the Year award at the Golden Joysticks on Friday is lifting, albeit slowly. :)

Jagex mods getting drunk?

A big congratulations to Jagex for winning this apparently important award. I have been reasonably pleased with them over the years despite of the few mess ups they may have done and I do believe they deserve this award. Perhaps this award will renew their motivation to and have them working harder than ever. Well done Jagex

[Obelisk]

Np.

[Slaya]

kk free pee hats?

xD I didn't vote, nor do I think they should've won it, oh well. No problem.

[Slamajama]

Slaya, on 03 November 2009 - 10:29 AM, said:

kk free pee hats?

At least they're showing a lot of gratitude for this

[Monky92]

Mod MMG and Andrew had a house party and got wasted!!

Ahem, no problem Jagex

[Panther]

I didnt vote, mostly cause I think they dont deserve it.

+ I never heard of the golden joystick awards ^.^ Gratz to jagex?

[Obelisk]

So we voted for these guys?

[0ne h0t sh0t]

They have never pleased me as a customer. So I voted for Rockstar :)Grand Theft Auto and other rockstar games have brought me joy and were for sure pleasing.

This post has been edited by 0ne h0t sh0t: 03 November 2009 - 06:43 PM

[Slamajama]

Obelisk, on 03 November 2009 - 06:36 PM, said:

So we voted for these guys?

That was actually kind of amusing

[Monky92]

Obelisk, on 04 November 2009 - 12:36 AM, said:

So we voted for these guys?

Good grief! Brain-munching zombified-thingymabobs are the ones who create our dearly-loved game!

[Powercrazy13]

Thought it was pretty cool that Jagex won this however I don't think they were up against any stiff competition :)

[Man With A Plan]

they didn't deserve to win, the smaller lesser known companys that deserve the reward would never get it simply because their community isn't large enough to cast enough votes.

it's always the game makers with the biggest communitys that win these things and not actually the most deserving ones, ones you'd never heard of will never win even though there's 100s out there with better customer support than jagex not to mention ones that actually think things through before they update their games.

[Aragon]

Was there even anybody else to vote for?

Yes, congrats Jagex.

This post has been edited by Aragon: 05 November 2009 - 10:24 AM