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ZiranaTallim

ZiranaTallim

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It's true that a company has to make a profit to survive and improve on their game, but why do it in a way that makes people quit the game altogether. Kinda defeats the object.
I don't know about anyone else, but I would much rather pay a realistic membership fee and have no bots or gold farms or Jagex selling stuff in game for RW cash.
Perhaps they should do a poll on the subject.

22-Jun-2012 13:20:31

Autumnshroud
Jun Member 2023

Autumnshroud

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Unfortunately, there will always be bots and gold farmers. I play other mmo's, and they're everywhere. There's no effective means of getting rid of them; having a higher membership fee won't do the trick--the other games I play have higher fees than here, and they exist in those games as well.

22-Jun-2012 13:22:15

Thee Ace
Apr Member 2006

Thee Ace

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Say thanks to your fellow players.
The reason they have chosen to do this is because there is solid proof that players are still buying spins. So, look to your fellow players that have bought spins and rant to them.
Flower games is proof that players do like to gamble regardless of winning something every time or losing any certain amount of GP. Have to give thanks to those whom host them too, for showing Jagex this true player info.
I have seen several post on players spending Irl $$ just to gain items on the wheel.
Now, by demand of the players buying gold from the gold farm sites > or else they would not exist > Jagex might as well have a chance at it for a short while too.
If players do decide to buy spins just for this chance to gain 200mil GP, then the players then make the decision for Jagex to go ahead and sell GP.
Where there is demand - there is someone willing to supply it.
So, thank you fellow players for allowing such things to exist. :@

I have seen several post on players spending Irl $$ just to gain items on the wheel.
Now, by demand of the players buying gold from the gold farm sites > or else they would not exist > Jagex might as well have a chance at it for a short while too.
Where there is demand - there is someone willing to supply it.
So, thank you fellow players for allowing such things to exist.

Tbh, this looks like a transition point for the game.
Players buy spins, that is the truth.
Players that hate it will quit. This makes room for all other players from different games that already use this Micro-transaction to then join Rs.
Jagex has the only Browser game of this kinda and is still different from many of the downloaded games or disc games.
New clientele is making this game what it is slowly becoming now.
Also .....last time announcements were made about account numbers....didn't a couple main people sell their stocks, changing the game , and didn't many J-mods quit?

22-Jun-2012 13:34:39

Talmok
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Talmok

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Right, I'm gonna just state my view now, I hate this, the Squeal of Fortune was a bad idea to begin with and it's not getting much better.
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with micro transaction in games, take LoL (League of Legends) for example, it's all based round micro transaction, or Guild Wars as it had micro transaction yet these don't unbalance the game or give people that use them an unfair advantage over the other users that don't want to use them.
That is the difference between them and the SoF, fair enough not in the short term, but introducing large sums of money like that into the game will eventually unbalance the economy and possibly even cause other players to slowly be unable to pay for certain items, no not rares merely general items e.g Armour, Weapons, Food (Unlikely the last, but hey! You never know!)
The more money introduced into a game the more inflation kicks in, WoW is a prime example, ever expansion the quests and daily quests awarded more gold than the previous games, so whereas as the start rich was hundreds of gold now it hovers around the hundreds of thousands.
I'm not sure if I've gotten off topic, or if this post is even easy to follow, but the point is, just because many games are going down the micro transaction path or that the SoF is making Jagex a fair amount of money, it doesn't mean that it should be done at the expense of the happiness or enjoyability of the game for the players that do not want this service.
YES, I do know that other players ARE buying spins and this is why Jagex have put this into the game and ok, the money rewards are fine, even the 10M as it's so rare.
HOWEVER, why can they not make it like other games micro transaction where the prizes cannot affect other players or the game?
Such as vanity items that already exist in the game, the Ceremonial Dragon armour and Queen's Guard stuff.
Hmm, well this is probably more an argument/rant now rather than an statement so I apologize in advance =/

22-Jun-2012 13:44:35

Alivaril

Alivaril

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Jagex. This has gone on long enough. Others have posted about reasons WHY you are killing runescape, but here's it from a business perspective:
In addition to killing your reputation, players are going to, and are, leaving. Despite you gaining more income from the players that buy spins and stay... players want their friends to play runescape. The 90% of the reason RS has expanded is due to people inviting their IRL friends in to see what an awesome game it is. Since people are going to get fed up and leave, not only are you losing out on the income from said people, but you lose out on any friends they may have invited as well. People are always quitting runescape regardless- the way the game is put together, it can get pretty boring once you hit max lvl in everything- but the flow of people coming in has always exceeded those going out. At this rate, that will no longer be the case...
Short term gain, medium term same, long term huge loss. Knock it off. 10m was okay, and fun in case you actually did end up getting it since it wasn't that much; changing it to 200m just shows how far you've fallen. 20m, maybe.

22-Jun-2012 14:03:58 - Last edited on 22-Jun-2012 14:27:09 by Alivaril

Thee Ace
Apr Member 2006

Thee Ace

Posts: 3,872 Adamant Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile
Say thanks to your fellow players.
The reason they have chosen to do this is because there is solid proof that players are still buying spins. So, look to your fellow players that have bought spins and rant to them.
Flower games is proof that players do like to gamble regardless of winning something every time or losing any certain amount of GP. Have to give thanks to those whom host them too, for showing Jagex this true player info.
I have seen several post on players spending Irl $$ just to gain items on the wheel.
Now, by demand of the players buying gold from the gold farm sites > or else they would not exist > Jagex might as well have a chance at it for a short while too.
If players do decide to buy spins just for this chance to gain 200mil GP, then the players then make the decision for Jagex to go ahead and sell GP.
Where there is demand - there is someone willing to supply it.
So, thank you fellow players for allowing such things to exist. :@

Tbh, this looks like a transition point for the game.
Players buy spins, that is the truth.
Players that hate it will quit. This makes room for all other players from different games that already use this Micro-transaction to then join Rs.
Jagex has the only Browser game of this kinda and is still different from many of the downloaded games or disc games.
New clientele is making this game what it is slowly becoming now.
Also .....last time announcements were made about account numbers....didn't a couple main people sell their stocks, changing the game , and didn't many J-mods quit?

22-Jun-2012 14:29:37

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