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SlR
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Man, the majority of item prices are inflated above 2% of what they should be anyway, why didn't you quit when you started seeing that trend? I took a 4 year break from RS and came back to everything costing 3x what they used to (pretty much). Felt like I had to start over from scratch because the gold I quit with was worth significantly less when I returned.

I wish they applied the tax sooner if I'm honest, though it's certainly not too late. Come up with a plan on how you'll adjust to it. You'll be fine. There are plenty of reasons to not quit.

I bet we see you back for Necromancy. It'll probably be a good money maker early-on! Bob says:
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11-Jan-2023 10:58:06 - Last edited on 11-Jan-2023 11:02:21 by SlR

Tenebri
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Kat Stryke said :

Actually, they are.


no

maybe you just misunderstood what i meant by linked. (as people seem to be thinking they are paying for death costs now via ge)
such as this post
thuhbadguy said :
Every pure skiller in the game now gets to help pay for the death costs of the combat fighters.
this is what i was responding to. by saying they arent linked as ge tax isnt paying for death costs. its just removing gp in game.

Tenebri said :


well they originally changed death in game to be a gp sink. it worked well as a gp sink, but that came with many negatives to players. #1 it was just pvmers that was just getting rid of gp when they died. #2 because of the death costs people that wanted to learn pvm couldnt due to death costs. unless they used lower tier armour / weapon (which is not ideal when learning) that stopped people pvming, locking them out of content
so jagex realised the pros of the death cost is not worth it by locking people out of content as they cant afford death costs. so they reduced death costs.

now more people are going to be more comfortable to try pvm knowing the death costs arent going to be huge. and learning pvm you die a lot.

now more people can enjoy more of the game. why is this dumb?

now its shared between everyone not just on pvmers. the death cost was originally just a way to get rid of gp. and it was put on just pvmers.

now its on everyone

that is the definition of fair.

this tax is just to reduce the amount of gp in game. before it was on pvmers dying. it wasnt called a tax then just a death fee

maybe jagex should have called it "ge fee" and people wont be so outraged. either way its now fair as it shouldnt be solely on 1 group of players (pvmers) its now on us all.
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12-Jan-2023 00:11:15 - Last edited on 12-Jan-2023 00:19:02 by Tenebri

Kat Stryke

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Tenebri said :
Kat Stryke said :

Actually, they are.


no

maybe you just misunderstood what i meant by linked. (as people seem to be thinking they are paying for death costs now via ge)

Direct quote from the 9 January newspost:

Today also marks the arrival of Grand Exchange Tariffs. With over 60% of gold drain coming through deaths, we needed to balance the economy to support the new death costs. Now, 2% of gold from all sales on the GE will be taken by the tariff to cover the gap.

Jagex is clearly stating they are paying for the lower death costs with the G.E. tariffs...so how can you claim there is no link between the two? Jagex says there is. "We are doing this thing, so we are now doing this other thing." That's the takeaway.

Link confirmed. QED. I've been putting out fire with gasoline! ^_^

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12-Jan-2023 06:13:38

Tenebri
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Kat Stryke said :
Tenebri said :
Kat Stryke said :

Actually, they are.


no

maybe you just misunderstood what i meant by linked. (as people seem to be thinking they are paying for death costs now via ge)

Direct quote from the 9 January newspost:

Today also marks the arrival of Grand Exchange Tariffs. With over 60% of gold drain coming through deaths, we needed to balance the economy to support the new death costs. Now, 2% of gold from all sales on the GE will be taken by the tariff to cover the gap.

Jagex is clearly stating they are paying for the lower death costs with the G.E. tariffs...so how can you claim there is no link between the two? Jagex says there is. "We are doing this thing, so we are now doing this other thing." That's the takeaway.

Link confirmed. QED.

yes its there to replace the death costs. im aware of that ive talked about it

but they arent directly linked in game, such as one paying for the other

people are not paying for death costs. that is what i meant by linked...

ive explained that literally in my post above

ive said in many threads and possibly this one, its to replace the death cost. (from the gp sink it was) but its not linked in game. people are under the impression ge tax is to do with death costs. it is not its to do with gp sink, thats it. yes it replaced it, ill say that 3 times here. yes replaced it. but they are not linked together. it was 1 update that they wanted to sink gp for. it didnt work, so now they doing it this way. but they are not directly linked in game that is al
they tried one thing it didnt work to what they wanted now trying another thing hopefully it will work

i dont know how else i can say it apart from that ramble

its a replacement for something. the only link is the first one didnt work out. so they needed something else, aka a replacement
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12-Jan-2023 09:56:48 - Last edited on 12-Jan-2023 10:23:26 by Tenebri

SlR
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Depends how you look at it. 2% tax BUT cheap deaths / cheap deaths BUT 2% tax.
They did seem to word it as the latter though, since that's obviously a better headline.

It's not 'just' to replace the gold from death rework though, obviously.
- nothing is ever that simple. even if they only mentioned that. its been a long time coming. Bob says:
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12-Jan-2023 10:00:23 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2023 21:29:38 by SlR

Roddy Piper
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"It's not 'just' to replace the gold from death rework though, obviously."

I'm not even going to ask, but everyone should refer themselves to the home page news post and consider it to be the facts, as far as we are concerned.

IT's not going to change, there is no reason to debate about it now, an entire year after they warned us.

On top of that, it's basically a fresh start on the dev side and this is part of it. Whatever it means to them that is significant. I'm guessing death at login but I am hoping for the best.

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