RuneFest

RuneFest is the name of an upcoming Jagex-run real world event for RuneScape players held in London, United Kingdom. On 24 April 2010, Jagex officially launched the RuneFest commercial website and the date of the RuneFest 2010 event, 28 August.

Venue
It was speculated that RuneFest will be held at the Olympia Conference Centre, in West Kensington, London. However Jagex later confirmed that the event will be held at Vinopolis, South Bank, London.

Tickets
Tickets went on sale to pre-registered people on Friday 30 April 2010 at 10am BST. People were given a unique code to purchase the tickets 24 hours before general sale and they could buy no more than 4 tickets per order.

RuneFest tickets went on general sale on Saturday 1 May at 10am BST.

Tickets are sold via the official ticket provider, TicketMaster, both online and via telephone. The face value of the ticket is £75 but TicketMaster also charges a £4.95 booking fee and then a further £2.50 for TicketFast, which enables you to print out your own ticket.

Jagex have stated that all money earned will be spent on the event and that any profit made will be donated to charity.

On Friday 9 July 2010 Jagex announced that the tickets had sold out; they also announced that all ticket holders would have the full costs of their tickets refunded as they would be using money from their marketing budget to cover the cost.

RuneFest Events
RuneFest will have a many of events including:

Insider Sessions
There will be talks by Andrew and Paul Gower, Mark Gerhard (CEO) and RuneScape’s Lead Designer Mod Mark.

Special Q&A Session
TBA

Golden Gnome Awards
An awards ceremony for Jagex's latest Runescape video competition. There will be awards for:
 * Short Story in Machinima
 * Short Story in Animation
 * Short Story in Live Action Video
 * RSMV in Machinima
 * RSMV in Animation
 * RSMV in Live Action Video

Landmark Event
TBA

Andrew Gowers Speech
Andrew Gower said in a forum post that he will be giving the opening speech to RuneFest, and will be giving a detailed brief of the days activities.

Jagex will be revealing more activities as the event gets closer.

Information not from the RuneFest website
On 30 April, the Flagstaff of Festivities was released in game. This item is only available for players who bought RuneFest tickets.

On 24 March, Mark Gerhard's second interview was released on the RuneScape YouTube channel. At two seconds into the video, the words "RuneFest 2010" were visible on a whiteboard behind Mods Paul M and Mark G.

On 7 April, Mark Gerhard was asked in his Clan Chat, "Mark, can you shine a light on RuneFest for us?" to which he replied:

On 11 April, Mark Gerhard said the follow regarding RuneFest in his Clan Chat:

In response to, "Will there be a music element to RuneFest as hinted in the trademark apps?"

Trademarks
On 18 March 2010, RuneFest.com was registered by Jagex.

On 29 March, 2010, trademark applications were filed for "RuneFest" "Jagex Nation" and "RuneScape Nation." Both RuneScapeNation.com and JagexNation.com are owned by Jagex.

The trademark classes for RuneFest, RuneScape Nation and Jagex Nation are: