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Not only would it be bad for the reasons already outlined above, but sanctioned RWT in the vein of cash shops in those crappy knock-off "free" MMOs would be completely out of character for Jagex. Honestly, I think that if they had to choose between sanctioned RWT and the death of RuneScape, Jagex (or, more accurately, its employees) would choose to let RuneScape die rather than become a mockery of all they've stood for for all these years. Remember, Jagex gutted PvP, killed free trade, and alienated a large portion of the playerbase to wipe out botting and gold trading once and for all (a decision I was in a minority supporting). In these days where the microtransaction business model runs rampant over the MMO industry, paving the way for hordes of shameless knock-offs, poorly-translated ports, and generally crappy games to steal business from the honest-to-goodness quality games, a company such as Jagex officially sanctioning RWT would be the death knell of quality online gaming.
Wait, wait, wait... You just made some very, very sweeping statements about games that do micro-transactions. You might want to do some research before you hold that position.
And it's not just LoL. LotRO, D&DO, Aion, switched to a f2p micro-transaction model. And many, many other games have implemented it with great success, even World of Warcraft.
Statistics: Posted by Nateman — January 21st, 2012, 10:55 pm
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I have never paid for anything aside from my membership fee to Jegex. And frankly, I'd say most have not bought gold. I don't know anyone personally who has, although it isn't something I normally bring up in conversation
Statistics: Posted by Shmop — January 20th, 2012, 2:05 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Nate — October 14th, 2011, 6:02 am
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jagex wont allow gold selling by players because they would want a cut of the $ and they wouldn't get it thus it remains banned.
Statistics: Posted by Loner — October 13th, 2011, 8:07 pm
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I remember when i first started, a mil was £10. Now its £0.95 per mil.
We would all like to see RWT get rid of but it will be a long long time until anything happens.
Statistics: Posted by Skulled Robe — September 15th, 2011, 4:05 pm
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I'd say the majority of people on Rs have bought gold and by Jagex selling there own would even the playing field for those who don't want to break the rules.
What happens to people like myself who wouldn't buy it? Money talks, tough luck.
Statistics: Posted by Chris — September 12th, 2011, 3:52 pm
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Hmmm........perhaps for P2P players they do not see much of bots hence they probably wouldn't bother, but for a F2P player like myself, its pretty annoying with at least 20-30 bots spamming gold selling in exchange.....but either way, theres pros and cons
Take my word fr it, there are bots in P2P. Just go to sorcerer's tower. There's usually about 30 of em harvesting the 4 magic trees there in any world of your choice. While this idea may solve minor botting problems, it would never eliminate the issue. If Jagex began selling gold, they would forfeit the real-world trade rule and anyone could do it at any price they want, so they'd speak. In other words... bots slightly go down, and scammers dramatically go up.
Statistics: Posted by Shmop — September 6th, 2011, 1:36 pm
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Can you put a poll on This thread I am actually wondering how many people would like to Ruin the game by having JAgex sell gold... I am dissapointed in people who would want that .
I don't want legalised GP selling, I'm just pointing out that your argument is wrong.
Statistics: Posted by Magicana Drofulcus — September 2nd, 2011, 8:33 pm
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whereas if gold selling becomes legal it means a rich person in real life can become rich in game within seconds legally where as a poor person still has to work for hours for it.
currently if a rich person in real person gets rich quick they have to do it against the rules, but to be honest jagex don't seem to be cracking down on gold selling websites that hard, but then again i guess it cant be easy...
Statistics: Posted by Head Cheff — September 2nd, 2011, 3:02 am
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nope, no way.
the rich already have an easier time of life its not fair that they get an in game advantage as well.
They already do though. All OP is saying is that Jagex should sell the gold rather than third party organisations.
Statistics: Posted by rsanchez — September 2nd, 2011, 2:15 am
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Magicana Drofulcus wrote:
66spookyKid66 wrote:
I would like to add another thing if they sold GP Wouldnt the Value of 1GP Drop like lets say you can buy a Rune Kite sheild for 35k-40k Well Since Jagex sells GP Millions of GP If Not Billions Will be flooded into The economy The Price of that Sheild COULD Reach 200k.
I actually Do not know enough About Runescape Economy But I am sure Dumping That much GP into the system would cause inflation ?? I know Party hats would Go up Quite a bit because People WOULD Spend $100 on Runescape Gold for a party hat...
I actually Do not know enough About Runescape Economy But I am sure Dumping That much GP into the system would cause inflation ?? I know Party hats would Go up Quite a bit because People WOULD Spend $100 on Runescape Gold for a party hat...
That's not how inflation works in-game.
To be clear: Items like Rune Kites have gradually become less valuable over time despite the massive influx of players and coins. This is because it is what is referred to as 'junk'. If it suddenly became worth 200k, I would just start mining rune and coal, then making the shields for immense profit. This is why it doesn't work as stated.
Also you'd probably be looking at >1000 for a party hat on bot sites. Looking at one gold selling site I was linked too, you can pick up a blue party hat for the low price of $1600. A purple partyhat will set you back $994.
But GP wouldnt have the same Value if jagex sold GP right? like 1 mill would Be like a welfare check
On big ticket items, maybe. On the items you're talking about, no. A rune kite wont go up even if you can buy GP because simply, the shields are not worth buying.
Statistics: Posted by Magicana Drofulcus — September 2nd, 2011, 12:29 am
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66spookyKid66 wrote:
I would like to add another thing if they sold GP Wouldnt the Value of 1GP Drop like lets say you can buy a Rune Kite sheild for 35k-40k Well Since Jagex sells GP Millions of GP If Not Billions Will be flooded into The economy The Price of that Sheild COULD Reach 200k.
I actually Do not know enough About Runescape Economy But I am sure Dumping That much GP into the system would cause inflation ?? I know Party hats would Go up Quite a bit because People WOULD Spend $100 on Runescape Gold for a party hat...
I actually Do not know enough About Runescape Economy But I am sure Dumping That much GP into the system would cause inflation ?? I know Party hats would Go up Quite a bit because People WOULD Spend $100 on Runescape Gold for a party hat...
That's not how inflation works in-game.
To be clear: Items like Rune Kites have gradually become less valuable over time despite the massive influx of players and coins. This is because it is what is referred to as 'junk'. If it suddenly became worth 200k, I would just start mining rune and coal, then making the shields for immense profit. This is why it doesn't work as stated.
Also you'd probably be looking at >1000 for a party hat on bot sites. Looking at one gold selling site I was linked too, you can pick up a blue party hat for the low price of $1600. A purple partyhat will set you back $994.
But GP wouldnt have the same Value if jagex sold GP right? like 1 mill would Be like a welfare check
Statistics: Posted by 66spookyKid66 — September 1st, 2011, 9:44 pm
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