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Wonder what Oddment prices will be for old Beach tokens..

Anyone know if any promos give extra Oddments?

07-Jul-2021 18:59:11

99 Div Skill said :
Wonder what Oddment prices will be for old Beach tokens..

Anyone know if any promos give extra Oddments? Ouch, RIP my bank.

Why did Jagex hint they might not bring the old ones back if... just back again in the same store? Kind of lame. I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity.

08-Jul-2021 02:53:00

Is the Oddments store the same shop as before, where you buy actual tokens, or is it an unlock feature?

Hopefully the latter. :0 I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity.

08-Jul-2021 02:54:04

Raphtalia6 said :
the oddment store is to unlock only, im not sure if they will be tradable but assuming how the other items work i think it will be unlocked after purchase. if not ppl would be able to buy like thousands of them with oddments. Yea, if you can buy the actual tokens, then the ones I own lose their value. But if just unlocks, then maybe I'll preserve some value.

I maybe should have stuck with traditional rares. The new game seems to discourage saving and long-term play, which is somewhat understandable.

The old rs would have players put in huge amounts of time, struggling to buy discontinued items early, before they went up. The new rs seems to want players to just enjoy the game, enjoy all the content, etc. But the new rs loses some of the merching aspect of the old. Oh well.

For those who don't know, this game used to require far more time, though there's a great deal more content now. In many ways, the new game is better. But to lose more of the old merching aspect is a real loss. I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity.

08-Jul-2021 08:33:31

08-Jul-2021 08:54:21

Profz,

Merchants buy rares. Merchants buy tokens.

I'm saying, it takes the fun out of the game if tokens are junked and also if new rares aren't released. There's, then, nothing to merch.

The reason to believe beach tokens were gone is last year one of the NPC said, "you might not see these again." And yet, here they are again. That was the first token event since I returned to the game. Jagex seems to offer different token events as special events which won't return, and then brings them back.

We do, indeed, see tokens that don't return. Increasingly, every token is more available, and there's a lack of scarcity. This reduces an incentive to buy them, removes any special value to them.

It would be fun to have something new that is discontinued. If not tokens, then new rares, to keep the game interesting and alive.

A million tokens, none scarce, none discontinued, all available whenever. That's boring. I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity.

08-Jul-2021 11:03:36

Older players might forget, but it used to be a fun thing to have discontinued rares.

You'd work hard, save up, buy a phat, buy a set of phats, and you knew the value would appreciate. You had a piece of RS real estate, an NFT. This is what makes RS3 more durable than OSRS. No matter how good OSRS gets, it will seemingly never have rares. There's no real estate in OSRS, nothing enduring to strive for.

When you're done playing, when you take a break from the game, only rares hold their value. Everything else approaches zero. You complete everything, and then... 100 more hours are added, 200 more, 300, to reach where you were. With each year, new content to keep up with. Only rares escape from that cycle.

Newer players are no longer a part of that. New players have tokens, which are apparently junked. You talk to a new player, often he has no interest in rares, no understanding of them, no appreciation. That's not how this game used to be.

And there are ways to release rares such that hoarding would be hindered.

But I didn't say, "oh, my tokens must be preserved." I just said there ought to be something that's scarce, something to keep the game interesting. Clearly I was wrong to move from rares to tokens, but I'm not wrong to point out the change. I think Jagex should have continued with releasing discontinued items; it should have continued with what kept this game alive. I cannot for the life of me manage to catch Covid. Perhaps it's because I didn't get vaxxed? The travails of those lacking immunity.

08-Jul-2021 11:06:01 - Last edited on 08-Jul-2021 11:12:49 by Trip180