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Fayithea
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Fayithea

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• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

11-Apr-2018 12:34:38

Lush Snow

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Fayithea said :
• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

Yes it is outrageous considering they have a mod balance thread and mod mmg threads on the forums promising to reduce mtx and neither of them work at jagex any more and prices are going up and mtx are going up. There isn't even a word for how skanky Jagex are rn.

11-Apr-2018 12:40:44

aphoticMUN

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CyberGoyle said :
worldwide inflation has also dramatically increased since 2005, not an accurate comparison

For one, its from 2015 - 2018. Not even remotely comparable to the inflation of Runescape which makes zero sense. All Jagex has done for, I would say about 5 or so years, is feed on the dedicated players and try to suck us dry as much as possible. Imo this all started shortly after the bot nuke and eoc. So many players quit and all of the gold farmers were banned losing tons of membership income. They tried fixing things with bonds and ridiculous runecoin events as well as releasing oldschool to get back their lost members due to eoc. Pretty much all of this was okay with us, the events got a little frustrating if you actually have any kind of life but it was for a small minority that actually cared enough to complain, sort of lol. Then they increased their membership price and we all kind of went, well damn that sucks but alright.

30% increase in price 3 years later? That is something clearly many users are not okay with. This is like freaking cigarette price increase from everyone vaping and menthol becoming illegal, glad I quit that nasty habit years ago haha.

But again over 9% inflation for 3 years? Inflation in Canada is apparently ( i was shocked to find out ) 1.4% which is where I am from. USA is only 2.65% and the UK just fell in February from 3% to 2.7%. In Europe its 1.4% after a low of 1.1%. Australia is 1.9% but was expected to be 2% and never hit. So dont say it is inaccurate to point to inflation rates. Where most people expect for their normal life things to be around 4%, some things going up or down due to specific factors. They sat around a steady 7% on first increase and then raised that to 9% over 3 years. Now another 30% increase, wonderful... Makes much sense, Jagexs economy must be hurting pretty bad lmao.
and the sun also shines upon the wicked
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11-Apr-2018 12:45:49 - Last edited on 11-Apr-2018 12:47:44 by aphoticMUN

aphoticMUN

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Lush Snow said :
Fayithea said :
• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

Yes it is outrageous considering they have a mod balance thread and mod mmg threads on the forums promising to reduce mtx and neither of them work at jagex any more and prices are going up and mtx are going up. There isn't even a word for how skanky Jagex are rn.

Grossly accurate, definitely should have included in my original post.
and the sun also shines upon the wicked
.,

11-Apr-2018 12:48:44

Iceman3317
Dec Member 2023

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It isn't about the price increase. It is the price we have to pay for hardly anything.

Runescape is now almost the same amount as most online games and closing in on the Price of WoW.

We don't get enough content to justify the amount we now have to pay. Yes WoW doesn't get constant updates, but we they got an update, they go a damn update that would last until the next batch of content.

Runescape had failed to bring us constant updates, but they keep raising the price. So we payed less for more and now we are paying more for less.

Not everyone can keep up with membership and god knows not everyone can keep a constant membership for 10 years to keep the granddad price. You let it lapse for a week and you get screwed. At least in WoW we can choose to take a break without being penalized for not playing for a month. Come the Sixth-Age, the world will need the World Guardian.

11-Apr-2018 12:57:49 - Last edited on 11-Apr-2018 12:58:37 by Iceman3317

Fayithea
Jul Member 2023

Fayithea

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aphoticMUN said :
Lush Snow said :
Fayithea said :
• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

Yes it is outrageous considering they have a mod balance thread and mod mmg threads on the forums promising to reduce mtx and neither of them work at jagex any more and prices are going up and mtx are going up. There isn't even a word for how skanky Jagex are rn.

Grossly accurate, definitely should have included in my original post.

I think a good subject of debate is by how much and how often prices rise.
So long as everyone here accepts that inevitably they will rise.
Unless we change the economical systems we live by.

I for one don't think this price hike is that outrageous or unfounded.
Just one opinion among many.

11-Apr-2018 13:04:08

not a gamer
Nov Member 2020

not a gamer

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So im guessing that with the price hike this will take out weekly TH promotions? Because there is no real reason for a price hike when content has been few and far between, we get random spontaneous updates that end up being dead content in a few days after release. Since the price hike also impacts old school do they get to vote on it since it is a major change to the game? This is where the community distrust comes in. Jagex has been known to go back on its word when it comes to getting every ounce of money for ots player base. Tradable reares from TH, more Th promos, updates that come out years later, etc.

11-Apr-2018 13:16:49

Lush Snow

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Fayithea said :
aphoticMUN said :
Lush Snow said :
Fayithea said :
• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

Yes it is outrageous considering they have a mod balance thread and mod mmg threads on the forums promising to reduce mtx and neither of them work at jagex any more and prices are going up and mtx are going up. There isn't even a word for how skanky Jagex are rn.

Grossly accurate, definitely should have included in my original post.

I think a good subject of debate is by how much and how often prices rise.
So long as everyone here accepts that inevitably they will rise.
Unless we change the economical systems we live by.

I for one don't think this price hike is that outrageous or unfounded.
Just one opinion among many.

It really isn't accepted as there is the solution of making the game free to play with mtx or removing mtx and having just membership. We have seen the low quality game breaking updates this model has brought and we know it would get worse without membership so it is time to grow up and remove mtx. Candy Crush is currently more appealing than this shit.

11-Apr-2018 13:25:31

Fayithea
Jul Member 2023

Fayithea

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Lush Snow said :
Fayithea said :
aphoticMUN said :
Lush Snow said :
Fayithea said :
• Inflation is a real thing that actually happens.
• The cost of everything goes up over time.
• The price has raised before, and it will raise again.

The real conversation is "Is the amount they raised it appropriate?".
I don't definitively know the answer to that.

$1.50 more per month and $10 more per year.
That is an increase of about 16% per month and about 12% per year.
Not totally outrageous, so long as it doesn't increase again for a good long while.

Yes it is outrageous considering they have a mod balance thread and mod mmg threads on the forums promising to reduce mtx and neither of them work at jagex any more and prices are going up and mtx are going up. There isn't even a word for how skanky Jagex are rn.

Grossly accurate, definitely should have included in my original post.

I think a good subject of debate is by how much and how often prices rise.
So long as everyone here accepts that inevitably they will rise.
Unless we change the economical systems we live by.

I for one don't think this price hike is that outrageous or unfounded.
Just one opinion among many.

It really isn't accepted as there is the solution of making the game free to play with mtx or removing mtx and having just membership. We have seen the low quality game breaking updates this model has brought and we know it would get worse without membership so it is time to grow up and remove mtx. Candy Crush is currently more appealing than this shit.


Making the game completely free to play would be an exception as money would no longer be involved.

Making it free to play with micro-transactions would inevitably lead to the price of the transactions rising.

The prices of everything rise with time, there are no exceptions.

11-Apr-2018 13:31:19

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