EDIT: I have rethought this and am not sure how I feel about it anymore. Depending on how into this the in-game super rich players are will determine how terribly this turns out. The entire thing depends on super rich players actually wanting Bonds. The only real reason they would is if they have no real world access to a credit card to buy spins/runecoins (otherwise it'd be cheaper for them to do so in greater quantity for the cheaper prices.) Therefore if no one is willing to pay 15m for 14 days mem/8 spins/160 runecoins then the $5 is worth squat and the gold farmers will win out in the end.
The only complaint I have now is the poor people who will buy into this in the first few weeks only to find out that no one is willing to pay several million coins for something they have little to no use for and now they've spent $5 on something that's completely worthless.
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Problems I see:
1. What's to stop a gold farmer from buying bonds in the game world and selling them as well? Not sure why they would, but nothing is really stopping it either.
2. Membership, spins, and RC are cheaper than that already, so why would anyone buy these? It also leads me to believe you're planning on upping the cost of membership.
3. So, wealthy people will now have a legitimate way to freely get GP, and therefore the best weapons/gear/rares/etc in the game without putting any effort into a game that I've been playing for years to earn my stake?
The real problem with gold farmers is that they hurt the players opportunity to play in a fair environment. We're not concerned with them selling your I.P. as much as we're concerned that they're getting unfair advantages over us simply because they have money to spend, and you're perpetuating and actually guaranteeing that problem never goes away.
25-Sep-2013 16:40:41
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Reonar Dauth
I can just feel how close Runescape is becoming to a perfect Games. ^^
