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Sir Lokar

Sir Lokar

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I'm quite pleased to see these items enter Solomon. Those silly limited time promotional items are what made me put down RuneScape. However, I do feel that they should be unlocked for people who have it already. But a step in the right direction in my opinion. Hopefully Squeal stuff will make it in Solomon as well.

19-Mar-2013 00:10:16

Mr Delite

Mr Delite

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I doubt anyone of importance will take notice, but i just have to say it,

I don't mind the rerelease of these items, its because of the first rerelease that I got them and it's not like they hold ingame value. But its just too damn low to make the earlier versions of these items far worse than the ones you just released. I acquired them by the promise of a gold membership, a group which you might have classifed as "we already got their money".
The earlier version should either have a benefit, in the case of the skull maybe another colour or something (Why can't it burn in the colours of armadyl and bandos anyway?), or you should be able to trade in at diango or someone else. We hand in the skull and that'll unlock it in solomons store.
I wonder how you explain it too yourself jagex? I understand you want to make money. I don't mind the squeel of fortune, I don't mind the solomon store. As long as you don't make the game "pay 2 win" I could enjoy it. Yet things like this prove me wrong. Even if it is to make more money, how much can you benefit from it if you harm the trust of the more dedicated players? I may not be a veteran, infact this account isn't even 1 year old, but i've been playing since 2005. And finally I too have lost the believe that you do care about your players.

I don't want special treatment, I just rather not be made a fool of.

19-Mar-2013 00:10:49 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 00:21:48 by Mr Delite

Bite my Cake
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Bite my Cake

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I usually don't mind any updates to the Solomon Store, shoot, I've spent a good amount of money because I love the outfits. However, I bought the gold package thinking "Oh, well this will distinguish me from the rest of the people". Yeah, I understand they have been out for a while, and that people had the chance to show them off, but bringing old back items and charging for them? Hmm, I noticed this with the "Shadow" outfits as well. I didn't mind it, but now everyone will have the items I paid a good amount of money to have. Then again, it's your game and you guys can do whatever you guys want with it. I am just voicing my opinion here. I don't think it's fair, but you guys make the decisions.

19-Mar-2013 00:26:48

Xinix Xaxx

Xinix Xaxx

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After reading the first seven pages, I am starting to think the cosmetic versions of these items were not a popular update. I don't care. I'd like my flaming skull available as a cosmetic override, but I'll live without it. As long as I don't have to look at my ugly Bandos armour, I'm happy. If I didn't have any cosmetic overrides, I'd just wear Dragon armour. One way or another, I'm not going to let cosmetic items spoil my fun.

19-Mar-2013 00:34:20 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 00:35:10 by Xinix Xaxx

Scorpion
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Scorpion

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I would like a dragon keepsake key for free please. Or a refund for the runecoins that I spent on my dragonkeepsake key for my flaming skull, Or just give the flaming skull for free.

19-Mar-2013 00:36:49 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2013 16:51:39 by Scorpion

Aidna Sola
May Member 2022

Aidna Sola

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To be honest, I didn't get the Gold membership for the promotional items (with the exception of the Paladin armor; that's pretty spiffy). I could take or leave most of them. I bought it because it basically came out to 2000 runecoins for 14 bucks, and everything else was just a perk (and I prefer to pay for things up front). So, my ******* aren't particularly twisted, personally.

HOWEVER. A lot of people did buy Gold membership, or bought the rather overpriced game cards specifically for these items, and they obviously feel rather cheated. I know I would feel *especially* so if I bought a keepsake key for one of these items.

I'm not going to say you shouldn't put these things in the store. I do, however, think that there are better ways of doing this. One, give owners of the items the ability to trade the items for skins. I see no reason why SGS can't keep track of who has promotional items, since it can keep track of my pally armor. Two, refund any wasted keepsake keys. Especially if it's cheaper to buy the skin from SGS than to buy a key.

Honestly, I'd rather see an overhaul to the customization in general (and one that would probably solve all of these issues, at that), but I won't get into that here. All I'm going to say here is that this could have been handled better.

19-Mar-2013 00:43:28

Nacht Hexen

Nacht Hexen

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Too "hard" to implement?

You have the ability to tell who duplicated items or received items through a glitch. You can tell who has these items within their bank. You simply give them the amount of RuneCoins to purchase it, or make it free for them.

Not simple enough? Maybe. So, here's an even better way:

Give Diango the ability to give a voucher, RuneCoins, whatever you want to do once he is given one of these cosmetic items. In other words, let me use my flaming skull or any other promotional item on him, he "checks" to make sure it's a Solomon item as well, and he unlocks it in the Solomon store.

Still not good enough? Create a keepsake box that Diango gives out when you use these cosmetic items on him. Make them infinite in use (or in the amount of times he gives them) because the skull can change color, but limit them to these items only.

Don't say you can't, because you can. This is a poor strategy for keeping members happy and playing. These things drive customers away, and word of mouth travels around. It's a losing situation for you the more you mess with us.
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19-Mar-2013 00:50:24 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 00:51:25 by Nacht Hexen

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