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Jun

2012

Catherine

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I honestly think this is better than buying from third party gold sellers. I don't mind jagex attempting to make money off this, companies need to be able to make money in order to thrive. If so many people are going to buy gp, they may as well do it a legitimate way and not ruin the economy by introducing money that gold farmers have obtained. We should keep an open mind and see how this plays out, it is the first day after all.

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25-Sep-2013 21:39:22

im a PHARAOH

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bonds are good.. this is a really good update.
this means that free players can be members easier than before.
but plz make us able to buy it with pay by cash method cuz i can't purchase things with the other methods. ty

25-Sep-2013 21:39:37 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2013 21:42:42 by im a PHARAOH

Mod Redfox

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Mod Redfox : you did not answer evil crown3 's question/comment with yours.

So I will restate it: if the exchange rate of gold for real life money offered by JAgex is worst then the one by goldfarmers.. how will this stop them having customers?
Jagex is not selling gold for money and do not intend to do so.

The cost of bonds purchased in-game through the Grand Exchange or through player-to-player trades is determined by players depending on what they perceive the value of the bond to be for them - whether that be for an item or simply given away to a friend.

25-Sep-2013 21:39:38

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jagex wont sell rsgp blalala-----nice story

25-Sep-2013 21:41:15

Rho

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Jagex is not selling gold for money and do not intend to do so.

They are indirectly though and the current price they are selling at is $0.67 per million GP.

25-Sep-2013 21:41:22

Zmflavius

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Myself, while I generally see this as a good idea, I confess to being confused as to how this combats gold farming. It seems to me that by implementing an in-game way to purchase membership with gold, you've actually created another incentive to gold farm.

25-Sep-2013 21:42:09

Chris W

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Mod Redfox : you did not answer evil crown3 's question/comment with yours.

So I will restate it: if the exchange rate of gold for real life money offered by JAgex is worst then the one by goldfarmers.. how will this stop them having customers?
Jagex is not selling gold for money and do not intend to do so.

The cost of bonds purchased in-game through the Grand Exchange or through player-to-player trades is determined by players depending on what they perceive the value of the bond to be for them - whether that be for an item or simply given away to a friend.

Well it pretty much is selling gold for money, if you want to be brutally honest. Again, nether.

25-Sep-2013 21:42:17

Dec

2023

Heatley

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I honestly think this is better than buying from third party gold sellers. I don't mind jagex attempting to make money off this, companies need to be able to make money in order to thrive. If so many people are going to buy gp, they may as well do it a legitimate way and not ruin the economy by introducing money that gold farmers have obtained. We should keep an open mind and see how this plays out, it is the first day after all.

Nononono...

We all know that this system doesn't work in games like these, they've all been doomed and now we're taking the same path..

JAGEX! You better have something good also...

@Heatley_

25-Sep-2013 21:42:37

Brad 76

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Yes please enlighten us on why they can't dump their wealth now compared to a few hours ago?

What this is .... a way for jagex to make more money.

What this isn't.... a way forward for the game longterm.

The player is the one loosing, they are not selling gold themselves, they are selling the gold that we have earned in the game.....it's way worse than them selling gold.

25-Sep-2013 21:42:41

Nov

2011

Grey Hiker

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I feel like let's say the bonds are bought for 5 bucks each and are worth 1m each, then the gold farmers are still going to be going full steam if they charge less than 5 bucks for 1m gold.

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I doubt it.

Before, if you wanted to buy gold, gold farmers were the only option.

Now, if you want to buy gold, here are the options:

1. Buy a bond for $5 [and get, for example, one million gp via a GE trade]; or

2. Pay a gold farmer $5 [and get, for example, 1.2 million gp PLUS a real chance that your credit card will be mis-used PLUS a real chance of downloaded malware as well as gp].

Option 1 sounds a lot better to me.

BTW, the quote to which I'm responding makes it seem as if dropping the price of gold is easy for gold farmers. It's not. As in any business, reducing prices reduces profits (maybe to the point of marginal profits or unprofitability, driving some gold farmers out of business).

25-Sep-2013 21:43:24

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