In a bid to kill the auto-bots from spamming all day at the Grand Exchange etc. Jagex should consider legalizing Runescape Gold selling which seems to be a good way to kill the bots market, but of course not outsourcing this selling to third-party but rather Jagex setup an online store within Runescape homepage itself and offer players a way to buy quick money while implementing a policy that runescape gold buying is only allowed through purchase from Jagex.

I know this sounds rather crazy and sort of kill the fun of playing Runescape where others have a hard time earning money and someone just buy off some quick gold and becomes richer than you, but ultimately the objective is to kill those real world traders and this is possibly the best way I can think of, discuss

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Interesting. I can certainly see where your coming from. But I can never see it happening.

Far to many people would quit playing RS with this change and jagex would lose a huge amount of money.

Also, determining the price per million gp would be difficult.

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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.

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Being rich in-game also gives you quite a huge advantage in-game as well. Consider the fact I own a Santa hat, I lend it out to players 50k per hour, and I can make 500k+ a day just in loaning out the hat. Not to mention all the other stuff I get done while I'm actually playing on top of the 5 minutes or so it takes to stand at the G.E. shouting lending Santa 50k/hour. Definitely a big advantage compared to the player that doesn't have item(s) of value in their bank (or the gold to acquire such items)

I do see why this idea is also not that bad since there already is RWT going on, regardless of Jagex's policies. Maybe this wouldn't actually be such a bad thing in the act of combating bots, but you'd have to also keep in mind that the gold farmers would want business over Jagex, so there would be a lot of competing on gold prices which would probably crash the economy even more. (I could be totally wrong, just a quick, first thing in the morning, speculation)

I don't see it happening for awhile, but if the gold farmers get too out of control, Jagex might have no other alternative besides going back to no free trade/no wilderness.. *shudders*

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Yeah, RWT will go on regardless of what Jagex wants. If they set it low enough, it could force the gold sellers out by virtue of it not being profitable anymore as compared to WoW or another MMO. So yes, they should do it.

i dont want that to happen jagex is working on a way to get rid of bots buying runescaoe gold would ruin runescapes economy even though theres already gold farmers honest players dont buy from them but if jagex sold gold than they might actually do it.
Also what if the gold farmers sold there gp for cheaper than jagex than it wouldnt fix the problem..

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No. That would literally kill almost the entire point of the game. I would much rather have bots than selling gold in-game. Everything would be thrown off, and it would make skills literally buyable. Good-bye to any work needed to succeed. I don't care about the bots; I care about the principle.

I love RuneScape and I've stood by Jagex with a lot of things, but if you could buy gold then I would officially quit and not look back.

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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

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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...

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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.

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I would quit the game aswell, i mean I have looked at gold selling ads in f2p out of curiousity aswell and if i payed for gold i'd have billions and billions as "apparently" it's so cheap. If jagex did this, inflation would hapepn and all it would end up being is Jagex making ALOT of real money and we're virtually paying the same for the game price as it used to be. 10M back in classic was ALOT. Now adays it's called as not much at all, you can hardly show off with 10M. Same would happen, a rune 2h for example costs what 40K now? If we all bought money from jagex, inflation would happen it would be worth 500K for example. But really it's still worth that 40K as more money is in the game. ID QUIT IF THIS HAPEPNED.!

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Alrite, i admit its a bad idea lol, shall wait patiently for Jagex using other means to deal with bots haha....

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you know how when you were a kid, and you got a new toy. and it was really really awesome and fun to play with. but then you used it to much and you got bored. well the whole bot thing is kinda like that. it will slow down.

also, more of them will get banned as the big bad jagex catches up with them. then people will get scared for their accounts, and stop using bots as much. so over time the bots will decrease in numbers.

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But GP wouldnt have the same Value if jagex sold GP right? like 1 mill would Be like a welfare check

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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.

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They already do though. All OP is saying is that Jagex should sell the gold rather than third party organisations.

my point is, if a poor person in real life is a poor person in game they can legally become rich as easily as a rich person in real life.

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...

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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 .

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I don't want legalised GP selling, I'm just pointing out that your argument is wrong.

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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.

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