On the 28th of April Jagex posted the following to their twitter:


It appears that this tweet has now been removed for reasons unknown.

Screenshot of original message taken by xxxxxxxxz:

It might have been just temporary to cut the hype and make sure people wouldn't get their hopes up

if next week than next week...

Maybe the project they were working on is MechScape and they posted this on twitter to make the surpirse of the release bigger.

But on the other hand: What has the RuneScape team to do with the MechScape team anyway? A project of one team shouldn't affect the other team.

They all are under one roof.

It was merely replaced with another headline in my opinion.

What do you mean?

As soon as the next update came they just took off the mechscape related one and posted the new update, since the mechscape one was technically not an update. It was more of them making things a little bit more clear.

As far as I know all no other tweets have ever been deleted, even ones posted for the purposes of clarification.

Ya, I could be wrong, it was just my initial thought when I saw this. To me, it just seems understandable that they would take it off for other reasons than miss-judging the release date.

well, I hope they are still releasing it soon.
if they don't im gunna have a bigger freakout than christianu2ber lol.

interesting, nice find, i hope ms comes soon = /

MechScape next week?
I hope so!
By removing the tweet, they are just getting my hopes more up! (They removed the tweet saying MechScape ISN'T out next week)

It's nice to see that Jagex doesn't really have a clue as to what they're doing.



Ha ha, I don't think that's possible. "What gives you the right not to realease MechScape? Tell me or I'll come to Jagex HQ and SLIT YOUR THROAT!"

It seems that the name of the game is now 'confirmed'.
(Or maybe it had already been found out, I haven't followed the discussion about MechScape or StellarDawn or whatever, all I remember is that we weren't sure)

It's not wise to release as a "surprise". Get people following your game and build on that. Nobody except RuneScape players would sit and wait for a surprise... when you should be given information. There is almost nothing from Jagex about the actual details of the game, and I was following another game a while ago and at least they gave screenshots and other things to discuss. Right now the whole forum is just pulling stuff out of their ___ about the game.

I KNEW IT!

No, there's a London office and a Cambridge office



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Even though they deleted the MechScape statement on twitter, they didn't remove it on facebook.

I don't think so. They've said that they are using MechScape as the code name for now.

I don't think so. When MechScape comes out, I'm sure Jagex will do everything they can to make people find out. That means advertisement.

Thanks, took the words right out of my mouth. Jagex enjoys just totally confusing the fuck out of people.

It could either mean two things this removal -

1) They don't want everyone to think it is coming out soon because it isn't, or
2) It is coming out soon, they just want to play down the hype.

I hope it's the latter :P

Does anyone know what job title Mod Ajd has?

~Jibby

They better release it soon.

Patience is not one of my strong points

tipical jagex right there for u lol

If I had to guess I'd say Community Management Representative.

Definately is interesting. I really do hope the game comes out soon.

Not too much info released from Jagex about MS lately, but perhaps they haven't had enough time to communicate with the public on the release of MS, so maybe this will be the week...

Lol, but I think they removed it to not get peoples hopes up, that it will be out "soon." Then if it doesn't come out "soon" people will get their hopes crushed (again).

if it was coming out within a week i'm pretty sure they'd hype it up

that makes me feel like there still deciding when...

I'm sure if the release date was imminent Jagex would be hyping it at least a little.

For example I can almost guarantee that they will make a splash page for mechscape.com a week before the site is launched, like they did for FunOrb.

Just another puzzle piece to Jagex's already humongous puzzle.

I can wait aanother year. As long as they don't cancel the project I'm happy.

i doubt a year or even a half
i feel like its coming within at least a month or two


i think it'd be funny if everyone got this hyped up and it was just a sweet april fools joke for next year
haha
sorry stupid humor...

If they did that, i would be SOoooooooooooooo Pissed. Probably not as pissed as Ren or the even Poultry for forking up most of the dough for this site, and the doners, but still i'de be really uber pissed.

yeah...they obviously wouldn't
for those vary reasons.....

They probably have at least a million or more wrapped up into this project so I don't see them canceling it at the last stages of development just for that. They said that they will have around a years worth up updates really already for the initial launch so I don't see it happening like that. Maybe a delay longer then expected at most. I don't really mind the wait though. I have exams coming up and I would hate to have exams and MechScape come up at the same time. I expect it to be out around summer as that would be the best time for US and UK members which hold the majority of players or expected players.

I think the reason for why they have given out concept art and such to the community is to show that this isn't just vaporware as it appears to be and that they are really serious about the development in MechScape.

Lol, you guys are automatically taking it as if JAGEX removed it.

I'm involved in a ARG related to another game, (The Secret world, too complicated, don't ask.) And the writer of the game has had many of his tweets disappear randomly, without him deleting them. So Just because it's gone, doesn't mean that it was removed BY Jagex. It could have been just a bug in the twitter system, it's happened to me, and lots of my friends before. It's not fun.

That being said, it still wouldn't surprise me if it was Jagex that removed it, and not a bug. Because just look at all the hype that's been caused because of that tweet!

I think the delayed project is the long overdo mobilising armies.

Looks like Mechscape wont be out this month then =/

Interesting, maybe Ajd was mistaken? I mean usually you only delete Tweets if the tweet has wrong info. Of course, he could have just posted something like, "To clarify, it won't be ready for a while".

Or maybe, he didn't know what he was talking about, and it will be out this week.

I truely believe that Mechscape really is going to have a surprise release that NO ONE will expect, regardless the little here-and-there's they've been showing.

I agree. I think it means that their definition of soon was slightly different to ours. For them several months before the release of a long-term project is soon, but some think soon means imminent. I think they realised this and removed the tweet so as not to be giving out the wrong signal.

They throw the words soon, promise, close release, etc. around a lot, getting too many peoples hopes up. Getting rid of that post was for the best, they've already crushed my hopes of release anytime soon so not even a post like "its coming out within the month" won't spark excitement for me.

For all PlayStation3 users out there this reminds me of something. Hmmmm....

Oh yes! PlayStation HOME.

Now that kept getting delayed after empty promises and excesive hype. This meant that when it was released almost everyone had lost interest or was majourly dissapointed.

The last thing we want is a repeat performance.

I am positive Jagex reads these posts so lets leave a little message.


@Jagex

The post you left on Twitter was removed for some reason or other. It got many peoples hopes up with an expected release. Unfortunately this now appears to not be the case. At least inform readers on twitter as to why this has been done. Even if it is a few words. Eg. 'The Information Was False.' or 'It was removed for another Headline.'

Thanks.

~Brad Aka. Saradane

Andrew said its not nearly ready

but a more public announcement might have been nice

Not a lot of players didn't even know they put it on Twitter, which is why it was removed without any warning.

They wanted to keep the hype down, in my opinion. Which seems ironic, because we're hyped more than ever because of this. :XD:

yeah i wasn't exactly talking the twitter one
what i meant is
if he's just going to say it in the mod chat

why not just announce it more publicly that its not coming out soon rather then letting everyone found out the "jagex way"
by find out through everyone else