Gambling - Please, please, please get rid of it. The desire for high stakes gameplay or the thrill is not the underlying drive. Sure some do it for fun, but there is a direct connection between gambling and RWT. How else can hosts offer 500M+ pots, 5B gp drop parties, etc. when they never move from the GE. Why would people pay r/l money to be ranked in these operations if they weren't making a r/l profit. Just make it against the rules and stop coddling the people bringing the game, and the community down because of nothing more than greed for the pixel gpz.
As much as I am against Runescape turning into a casino IF that is the only alternative, and it is done in a way that does not feed the coffers of the gambling clans/hosts/scammers, AND is moved away from areas like the GE, where it does interfere with people who want to actually play the game as it was intended, I guess that would be tolerable.
The rest basically sounds like a good start, but as with other promises, time will tell.
23-Jan-2013 20:50:58