I too played runescape back then, and the things I said were a problem, because you could not respect someone for their wealth or skills, as they could have got it any way, with limited effort and skill.
You said yourself "When these awful updates struck Runescape, there was a birthday of my friend in a few weeks and I was hoping to give him a pressie in Runescape worth something like 10m." Your friend may have been seen as rich, but I would have had no respect for that, because he just got it as a freebee off you.
These days if I see a player with 10mil, or something worth that I know they have worked hard in merching, or monster killing, or skills to be able to get that, and so the items can actually be respected!
27-Dec-2010 00:00:43