I have read the arguments for this, both pro and con.
The fact remains that, mega expensive items apart (which have sold outside the GE anyway because of the price cap), the skillers will end up paying for this change, not PVMers.
If you're a PVMer, you gain back far more than you lose because of your gains in the lower death costs. Even if you put all your drops on the GE and, therefore, pay the 2% tax, you will still be in profit.
On the other hand taxing sellers on the GE only really hurts skillers.
When I first started playing RS, there was a balance, a fairness in the game, that meant we could all play the game as we wanted - in fact, that was one of the selling points. We weren't forced to PVM to get gp, we could choose to skill instead. I was one of those players and loved the game so much. I made money (not a lot, inflation hadn't struck back then) by skilling and selling what I grew/made to PVMers who, in turn, made their money from their drops.
It was fair because, while they risked losing their kit if they died, their chance of good drops out-weighed the risk. I took more time to make the same amount, risked less but knew that I had customers for my goods.
Now Jagex has lost its way, in my opinion. It wants to make money from MXT but doesn't know how to control it. It wants to pacify the PVMers but continually hammers the skillers in doing so. It changes the drops from monsters to give PVMers the skilling items thet would have bought from skillers before the changes.
Unfortunately, as with life, those who whine loudest get the most and PVMers have ever whined loudest while skillers just get on with the game.
Lower death costs won't tempt me into PVMing other than the bit I have to do. It will probably stop me from paying to play the game. I've already decided not to buy the gold premier membership because of this.
I believe I have membership paid for to April, we'll see what happens then.
12-Dec-2022 21:24:51
