This whole thing doesn't make any sense unless its really just a money making scheme. Bonds will not eliminate gold farming unless gold is eliminated all together. The availability of being able to buy items with gold in the game still exists, so gold farming will still exist. All it really seems to be is a way for Jagex to make the money themselves instead of it going to the gold farmers. That, and placing the value of the bonds into the players hands will just make more chaos out of the economy. The players sitting on billions of gold can still control the economy unless there are people out there with a bunch of expendable cash in the real world. Since it looks like bonds are already selling for 6 to 7 million gold in game, in order to get enough cash for the really high end items (Full Torva for instance), a person who wants to buy it with bonds will need to shell out what? $160 in the real world? That's not realistic.
25-Sep-2013 19:37:17