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Badass Capes

Badass Capes

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I'm excited for the no trade limit. And yes, I had my fair share of being scammed. I lost 2 whips from scams. Very well planned out scams I'll admit. Also I lost mils from paying too much for an item. But although I experienced heavy loss, I enjoyed having the freedom and it felt like real life. It was a give and take trading environment. You wouldn't even know you were being ripped off. I got my first whip for only 400k. The guy wasn't upset with the trade because that was all he was asking. I went right around and sold it for 1.7m cash in seers bank. I remember how I felt like I had done some real business. I baught that whip for 400k and sold for 1.3m profit. It was a great feeling of accomplishment and yet there was no scamming involved. It was a good deal for the guy asking for 400k and it was a good deal for me selling it for more. I miss that feeling of merchanting.

30-Dec-2010 00:22:35

King Dan xX

King Dan xX

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in reply to Phthartic, I would argue that a lot of these players are young and therefore just excited at the prospect of free trade and anxious to post an opinion. Free trade was an amazing aspect of this game and without it I for one am reluctant to introduce anyone to the game because it does get boring without the opportunity to do creative things like running a shop through the forums or hosting drop parties etc. I liked making people happy and that gave me as much enjoyment as playing the game. No one really wants to spend hours chopping trees talking to no-one (because they're all bots) and thats all runescape offers right now as a free player and its all well and good saying "then buy membership" but I cant buy membership for all of my brothers friends, my gf's brothers etc and if they don't get the true runescape experience as I had, as a F2p member of the community, then why would they pay for membership. Especially when the game is worse than it was in the good old days (IMO), and membership is HIGHER.
Also all of my friends would return to the game and I highly doubt that you would regard them as uneducated given they are at prestigious universities in the majority of cases. Runescape is doing the right thing by introducing this, they will gain greater revenue (so they don't have to keep raising their membership fees as they have done) and many loyal players will return. You also don't take into account that the majority of players don't use the forum and that does not make their opinion inferior to yours for example. Everyone who plays has the right to vote this is a free society (though you wouldn't think it with the trade restrictions)and I think I speak for the majority when I say YES TO FREE TRADE.

30-Dec-2010 00:26:02

Daruni
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Daruni

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Yeah, they'd break up and start working on their own individual scams. But that's what gives you street smarts. It's really something educational that RuneScape had to offer in the old days. But when they removed it, it made RuneScape feel... Hollow.
There was a void there that nothing they could do would fill.
We wanted the True RuneScape back.

30-Dec-2010 00:26:38

141retoubak

141retoubak

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People who don't want the old wildy back, say so because people get scammed with the old wildy.
But I think it is safer for a new player to wander through the old wildy, because he isn't interesting for PK'ers, while in the new wildy revenants wouldn't make a difference between players.
I think that it is a player's own responsibility to double check trades in order to prevent scamming. So when people say "I don't want the wildy and free trade back because of scamming." I think they shouldn't whine about mistakes but I think they should learn from their mistakes.
And when is food more worth then any other time?
When someone is fighting monsters, so they if they want to keep fighting, it is plausible they have to pay a little more money then when they are cutting trees. With free trade it is possible have those little differences in price without penalties for your other trades.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes.

30-Dec-2010 00:27:34

NhyxieBun

NhyxieBun

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Well, it took a few years, but good to see things may finally be returning to how they should be.
I may very well be returning in light of this.
This is very promising indeed. I've often compared other game dev companies to Jagex, usually to show some kind of superiority, but that just changed.

30-Dec-2010 00:28:22

Sir Wrathion
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Sir Wrathion

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When free trade was around about three years ago people were getting scammed daily which isnt what everyone wants. Yes it should be back but make it impossible 2 take your items away when you have accepted the trade. Although you would still be able 2 decline the trade if you did not want the items. Ive never been scammed and im glad of it but i know people that have been. So it would be better if it was brought back but safely. The wilderness on the other hand was one of the best things about Runescape but i agree with some of the other fourms by making certain worlds for the wilderness. Thanks :D



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30-Dec-2010 00:28:34 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2010 00:30:49 by Sir Wrathion

Doku_the_god

Doku_the_god

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I remember I would go to fally and buy thousands of super potions/Prayer potions and I'd wait until night time and go to edgeville and sell my potions to desperate pkers and I'd make a fortune. I found this way of making money only to have it ripped from under me a few weeks later when they implemented the new updates. I have 14k super atk pots 4k super str pots and 7k prayer pots that I now LOST money on. I told myself I wouldn't sell them until Jagex reverted the dumb update, little to my knowledge it was going to be going on for years. to this day those items are still in my bank. I don't play anymore. I miss having the freedom to do what I want. Runescape is the only game I know in existence to have this type of mechanic, to stop free trade. Makes me sad.

30-Dec-2010 00:30:11

Super Guard

Super Guard

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Trololol at all the people talking all maturelike. You guys forgot one MAJOR "LITTLE" "SMALL" detail.. RuneScape is a GAME. A game that has too many rules these days, too many restrictions. If we want those restrictions and rules, we'd go to cheap knock-off games. We want to be FREE. Who cares >1< player gets scammed/lured? People learn from their mistakes. Would you like to see a World Economy with a "trade limitation"? I don't think so!
I VOTE FOR THE WILDERNESS AND FREE TRADE! :O :O :O :O :O :O

30-Dec-2010 00:31:53

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