Update: World of Warcraft didn't scare the RuneScape devs, who were getting "tens of thousands of latest accounts every single day" in 2004 and could barely build servers fast enough for the MMO to keep up

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Subscribe to our newsletter World of Warcraft is the 800-pound gorilla of the MMO world – the undisputed titan that the entire genre is measured against.

You might think that the developers behind RuneScape, an even older and far more modest online RPG, would've been a little nervous when Blizzard's game launched, but it seems that's not the case.

Jagex was, after all, too busy suffering from success.There was "surprisingly not" much worry about WoW's launch within Jagex, according to an interview with RuneScape design director Mark Ogilvie from the October 2014 issue of GamesTM.

Ogilvie attributed the RuneScape's success to its very light design, which meant that the devs could implement new content at an extremely fast pace, and to the fact that it could run on just about any computer of the era.

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Those weren't areas where Blizzard was able to compete."Update frequency and accessibility were still our trump cards and actually our audience weren't that interested in WoW," Ogilvie said ## Editor's Note Stay tuned for more updates as this story develops. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/mmo/world-of-warcraft-didnt-scare-the-runescape-devs-who-were-getting-tens-of-thousands-of-new-accounts-every-single-day-in-2004-and-could-barely-build-servers-fast-enough-for-the-mmo-to-keep-up/)