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Philphish

Philphish

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I liked the part where you put some meaningless, unexplained figure on the screen titled "Gold Farmer Trade Analysis"

AND THEN YOU ZOOMED IN REAL CLOSE ON IT

My tiny mind was blown away. If you'd thrown in a pie chart and some other imposing statistics I probably would have fainted.

Please, take all of my money.

25-Sep-2013 16:54:53

YMadJustQuit

YMadJustQuit

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Have to say Jagex you have out done yourself.
Brilliant...

I was at first like hey people are just going to abuse this and buy their banks, then I realized they a they already were. May as well have the money go towards you guys so we can get further improve the game.

Good Job.

EDIT:
To all the people who are against this please ponder the following:
Do we want botters/goldfarmers to be ruining the economy or would we prefer to just have something that Jagex can benefit from. Like seriously the money was already going away from Jagex for their own curency.

25-Sep-2013 16:55:07

Derdoofecai

Derdoofecai

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sell your goddamn tank if you need money! remember the days where jagex made enough money just through membership? i remember. IT WAS BEFORE THE EOC, SOF AND SOLOMONS JUNK. 28k players currently online. thats a joke. and now bonds?! if you want a money sink let the players buy sof and solomons with ingame gp! do you even care that runescape is close to death?

25-Sep-2013 16:55:29

[#JDOV1FO69]

[#JDOV1FO69]

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The only way to get bonds in the game is to buy them with irl cash. And the bond buyers will sell for rsgp meaning a higher demand for bonds so more ppl buy and more rsgp gainz. So.. basically it's like a jagex gold farming item.



Well'p I quit.

25-Sep-2013 16:56:13

Philphish

Philphish

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Why would you take away from your revenue source by allowing people to pay for their membership with bonds?

This is a valid point.

Bonds cost $5 and provide 14 days of membership.

The regular rate is *7.99 for 30 days. They're not decreasing revenue.

25-Sep-2013 16:56:16

Storukas

Storukas

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Haha brilliant RIPOFF
First off, they sell 14 days for €4.25, that's over €9.00 PER MONTH. Compare it with current subscription - €6.95 = PROFIT.

Second, gold sellers offer gold at rate 10M~3.00$ i believe (actually no idea, I just received some pm spam), lets compare to Bond price $5/£3/€4.25 per Bond which is 15M starting price on GE atm., which means just... Gold sellers already have better prices!

Gold sellers WILL EXIST because they will look at Bond GE price and sell gold slightly cheaper you dumb morons JAGEX ********!

25-Sep-2013 16:56:31 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2013 16:57:54 by Storukas

occidentum

occidentum

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You talk about wanting to create a gp sink, but bonds in of itself doesn't do anything to remove gold from Runescape.

If you wanted to create a money sink you'd actually place these bonds for purchase in game from Diango or whatever other suitable npc for a set amount of GP.

Aside from this what makes you think gold famers won't adapt their rates? I made an example on another thread, so I won't go into as much detail.

Current value of Bonds - 15 million GP - Price of bond £3 each so it's £3/15m gp
All a gold farmer would need do is lower their rates to less than what you're selling bonds for and they're back in business.

15million GP > lower price to £2 > cheaper alternative than Bonds. Heck people who buy from Gold farmers could buy that 15m for £2, then buy a bond from another player for that 15m and in essence just purchased a bond for £2 instead of from you for £3

Time will change the value of bonds, but there's nothing stopping gold farmers from also altering their prices.

Edit: From what I've read gold farmers are already selling gold cheaper than what bonds are worth, so in essence, Mark, all you've really done is given grounds for gold farmers to actually
increase
their prices...

25-Sep-2013 16:57:07 - Last edited on 25-Sep-2013 16:58:55 by occidentum

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