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Runesmith128

Runesmith128

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This changes the way gold farming works. Now the player buys a bond from jagex and trades it it to the GFer who then exchanges it for membership. Now anyone can be a gold farmer! haha
Jagex has always tried to protect its players, they stop botting to prevent account hacking, and they try to stop gold farming to prevent credit card theft. Now these companies dont need your card info. Lots of players quit after their accounts have been hacked.
So now player A engages in rwt and buys a bond. Player B is now effectively a gold farmer. Does anybody care about the charity portion of this update? Even if this fails I think the bond system is good for charity. Of course giving the bond away is in no way rwt.
I understand how buying and then trading it for in game currency is rwt. Anyone can buy all the frost dragon bones they want off the ge but they still need to take the time to use them to lvl up prayer. Partyhats are useless protection from bosses anyway. so if players want to sink a lot of money into those, let them.
I have played other "free to play" games that had a glass ceiling in that unless you paid them money, progress was extremely slow***** isn't that sort of game. If it were, the only way to get stuff like the dragon pickaxe would be from Jagex. It would be impossible to acquire excellent gear ingame without paying real money for it. That is pay 2 win.
It's been my opinion that if spins on the sof could only be acquired from challenges and other gameplay, it would have so much more support. Then it would be a reward for playing.

25-Sep-2013 20:28:19

[#KHP446TDJ]

[#KHP446TDJ]

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I do not have a degree in Economics, but I did take an accounting course, and I'm a bit confused with all of this. One of the most salient remarks made in defense of this new strategy was that Jagex was, in effect, in an arms race against the gold farmers/sellers, and that this would simply continue to escalate without an entirely new approach. I believe that is correct. Where there is money to be made, the swindlers will flock.
As for whether or not this amounts to Jagex in essence performing rwt themselves, I think the game has been sliding in that direction ever since IVP acquired a majority stake in the company. That being said, I'd rather see my money go towards the people who maintain and develop the game, and their families, than to 3rd party leeches who are nothing more than parasites...and make no mistakes about it, that is exactly what these 3rd party companies who sell macros and/or gold are.
Will Bonds be the final nail in gold farmers' coffins? I hope so. Time will tell.

25-Sep-2013 20:28:59 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2013 20:36:06 by [#KHP446TDJ]

Sogr Boy 1
Sep Member 2021

Sogr Boy 1

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So, Jagex plans to get rid of
gold farming
by becoming the
gold farmers
... except the only difference is the economy will be fixed ... PEOPLE ARE STILL PAYING FOR IN GAME WEALTH ! ! I think there should be another solution one of which dose not involve buying in game wealth.

25-Sep-2013 20:30:27

Bast Qwarr
Jun Member 2022

Bast Qwarr

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this is DEFINITLY NOT RWT i mean RWT is paying real money for in game items... oh wait... this is... bad job jagex!!!! i liked eoc. liked the interface. did not like the SoF. but this is just INSANE worst update ever!!!!! i want a rollback. this is a really really BAD UPDATE horrible job jagex!!!!! :@

25-Sep-2013 20:30:42

Monazite-Fae

Monazite-Fae

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Thanks Jagex, you ruined this game. OSRS it is.

Stop trying to fend off all the haters Redfox, they hate you and Jagex for a reason. You know what Jagex is doing, you being hired by the most money driven company in the UK. They cut out the middlemen and are selling GP even cheaper than the sellers.

Thanks to the 40% of rule breaking players, the rule abiding have to suffer consequences now that everyone has the option (not just low level players like in your examples, high level players will rather buy bonds than do GWD grinding) to real world trade, and it's totally agreeing with the rules!

25-Sep-2013 20:30:46 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2013 20:32:27 by Monazite-Fae

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