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Why are they/we blaming Jagex? Because Jagex, as Jagex themselves claim, knew who and how many were doing this but did nothing to stop them. Jagex, as Jagex themselves claim, knew who was botting and/or goldfarming and did nothing to stop them. Players with little integrity are by their very nature going to cheat and we do blame them, but Jagex themselves claim to have known all this all along and chose not to act. Who is the bigger villain here those pre-disposed by nature/nurture to cheat or those that enable them?
Jagex has, in fact, done all of the things people accuse them of not doing, including banning massive numbers of gold farmer accounts
and
banning many accounts of ordinary players who buy gold.
But you just can't ban 40-50% of your player base.
Jagex has, in fact, done just about everything humanly possible to stem the tide of RWT while maintaining its previous idealistic stance, quoted numerous times here and on other threads from the old Runescape rules. They've thrown thousands of hours and huge amounts of money at the problem.
But the fact is, any player who wants to can still easily buy RS gold from illegal third-party sites.
The fact is, neither Jagex nor any other game company with a major multi-player online game that has a player-to-player economy has been able to stop the gold sellers based on the idealistic notion that they can stop players from buying gold.
Folks can scream and yell all they want. The real choices are:
1. Jagex can keep trying, and keep failing, to stop players from buying gold, and there will still be over a hundred billion in gold purchased every single day.
2. Jagex can provide a less destructive way for players to obtain in-game gold for real-world money, undercutting the gold farmers business and causing less corruption for the game.
Jagex has finally decided to be realistic and pragmatic, and go with the second option. That's what bonds are all about.
30-Sep-2013 04:33:23