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HalloweenFox

HalloweenFox

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The gold package contained: (Worth aprox $212.60USD + Cosmetics & other benefits)

12 months of membership (Worth *79.90)
2000 runecoins (Worth aprox $41.70)
The full paladin outfit unlocked in customisation
An extra daily spin on the Squeal of Fortune for 12 months (for a total of 3 spins per day) (Worth aprox $91.00)
All game card rewards:
Ornate katana
Green skin
Turkey hat
Barbed bow
Flaming skull
Scarecrow mask
Lightning *taff and the Professor hairstyle
Entry into a prize draw to win a trip to RuneScape HQ in Cambridge, UK
Priority access to any and all RuneScape closed betas in 2013.
A quarterly Premier Club newsletter, packed with information and offers.

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You received enough value towards your purchase for the gold package.. Don't try to make out to be otherwise. The year isn't even half way over. The issue at hand is that the items are inferior to the new SGS versions and need to be fixed. Another problem is their lie of exclusiveness..

-Let's reduce that $79.90 to $60 due to my old rate like I mentioned
-The Full Paladin armor was basically re-released to all non gold members as the Shadow Knight with the only difference being slightly darker in color
-The SoF is an embarrassment to the game already. I'm not going to support it. Plus the extra spins can be earned ingame already by most players.
-All the gamecard rewards were at the time were much more valuable due to the fact that they were supposedly Limited Edition
-Entry into the prize draw; if I get the trip I'll take it back but it's worthless to me until then
-Priority access to the betas, Notice the "priority" which means they'll likely be available to others too, we just get to skip the line for access
-A quaterly newsletter advertising info on more ways for me to give them money...great...



Mints, why on earth are you fighting me on this anyway

19-Mar-2013 20:42:43 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 20:47:37 by HalloweenFox

cute af

cute af

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I'm not fighting you on it, I'm pointing out you got more than what normal membership costs so you can't say you got ripped off really. I don't see how it relates. You got more than everyone else did for paying regular membership for only 20$ extra (for some people it was even cheaper than normal membership who don't use credit cards - paybyphone/SMS/ is 11$ a month while UGC is 8$ a month). And don't tell me you don't use those extra spins daily, because you do. You support it by using them.

Either way that's not what this is about... it's about them releasing limited edition items and making them common and available to everyone forever, and having those who had them beforehand now have a lesser version of their item.
hey lol

19-Mar-2013 20:58:44 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 20:59:38 by cute af

HalloweenFox

HalloweenFox

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What is this "this" you're talking about? You have your reasons and I have mine, I just happen to have more than you and different ones than yours. That doesn't make them wrong.
So for me, that is what this is about...

19-Mar-2013 21:08:07 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 21:08:45 by HalloweenFox

Minion 777
Feb Member 2007

Minion 777

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I can accept the idea and implementation of micro-transactions into the game. I understand how they can be necessary and welcome the variety it can bring to the game, even if I don't feel a need or want for all the additions they bring. But what I cant accept is being swindled. And that's the only way I can describe it. I bought certain products under the guise that there would be no other way to attain them and was perfectly content with that. But when I hop online and see an update such as this so casually flaunted at me in not only game updates but Facebook as well, I dont know what to say. I'm at a loss for who thought it was a good idea, to take items whom players were already spending money for, and then spit in their face by re-releasing it in hopes that new players will buy them. Let me say that agiain. You took exclusive items that were bought by a already present member base who were willing to spend money on cosmetic items, and then repackaged them in hopes of selling to a member base who might not be willing to spend money on cosmetic items.

Who were you attempting to sell this too? Did someone really think that people who already owned such items would be ready and willing to buy them again, or at the very least welcome the idea of it? Was this update just a shot in the dark to see if any new fish would take the bite? Im trying to wrap my head around it but its coming up blank.

I figured this month would be lackluster in comparison to the great updates that have filled this year and the end of the last, but I never thought that i'd have to bear witness to something like this. When every other update is something that deals with micro-transactions and every piece of major game content is also accompanied by one, you have to be careful with what exactly you're telling to the community.

Is there a need for bi-weekly squeel/soloman events? If so, are you so out of ideas that you need to repackage old content (exclusive or otherwise) as micro-payments?

19-Mar-2013 21:08:53

KENNIS-GOD
Jul Member 2004

KENNIS-GOD

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I have to agree that Jagex has scammed all of us whom purchased the Gold Membership package.......

A part of the incentive with the purchase was the availability of the limited edition items which were not available to everyone in the game....

Ethically and morally Jagex is going down the tubes............

In all likelihood the entire Gold Membership was a scam and we will not benefit from it's purchase, I expect that there will never be closed beta testing in 2013 or a Premier Club newsletter...........

Jagex has become a bottomless pit of disappointment.................

19-Mar-2013 22:28:03 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 22:29:33 by KENNIS-GOD

Mr Delite

Mr Delite

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Why has there been no official response to this outrage yet?

I was wondering the same thing, I keep following this thread hoping for an answer.
Either "okay we fix it" or "Suck it" not some false promises.
Atleast admit that this isn't fair. Don't give us some weak excuse as "you've had plenty of time to show off". We don't buy it and I'm sure as hell you don't believe it either.

19-Mar-2013 22:40:13

Xinix Xaxx

Xinix Xaxx

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Why has there been no official response to this outrage yet?

There has......This was a quote......

Mod Drebin said:
Try to remember these items have been out for a fair old length of time; if you have the equippable versions from their initial release then you've had all that time to look elite and well ahead of the pack.

--I do not think we'll get anything more.

Edited because the typo demon has set up shop on my keyboard.

19-Mar-2013 22:46:21 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2013 22:51:00 by Xinix Xaxx

Midgarsormir

Midgarsormir

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Why has there been no official response to this outrage yet?

There has......This was a quote......

Mod Drebin said:
Try to remember these items have been out for a fair old length of time; if you have the equippable versions from their initial release then you've had all that time to look elite and well ahead of the pack.

--I do not think we'll get anything more.

Edited because the typo demon has set up shop on my keyboard.

I think he asked because this isn't "an official response". Mod Drebin basically just ignored everything we just asked and the last 30 pages of complaints and essentially said "everything's fine ;) ".

19-Mar-2013 23:01:18

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