"the most powerful items ever seen in RuneScape."
Erm..say what? this can't be good...a choice of 1 of 4 too? If these items have a lasting effect on gameplay I can see things going horribly wrong...even more so if it turns out that they'll be buyable with IRL cash or something stupid like that.
Limited time items (and buyable items) should never have a significant lasting effect on gameplay. It could very very easily break the game balance between those that have them and those that don't if they're actually as powerful as they're made out to be, not to mention if 1 or 2 items turn out to be much better/worse than the other options - that'd result in a 3rd tier of imbalanced groups of players.
F2P/P2P is fine as they're separated by worlds and members don't get their benefits on free worlds, any gameplay separations beyond that is NOT okay though. SoF is a big enough problem to game balance already, giving an unfair gameplay advantage to the rich irl through buyable spins, adding more problems is certainly not a solution to gameplay balance. Buyable cosmetics is fine, buyable gameplay advantages is not. The same applies to limited edition items such as these, even more so when those limited edition items are members only due to the requirements.
Oh right, that's an awful lot of free xp too, though it's not as bad as bxpw was still at least I guess.
20-Jul-2012 17:29:57
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