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Aleximoros
Dec Member 2009

Aleximoros

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I do appreciate this message, and it does somewhat allay my fears. However, I continue to believe that features like the Squeal of Fortune and Solomon's Store undermine the moral authority of Jagex in combating real world trading and botting. The message says that xp and gp will never be for sale, but both are extremely frequent on SoF. It matters little to me that few accounts are using the Squeal for these purposes. Prior to these updates, real world money could only legitimately buy membership; all members were equal. This is no longer the case. Up for sale are more bank space, powerful weapons (most egregiously the auspicious katana), xp lamps, and coins.
Furthermore, when Mod MMG promises that our worse fears won't come true, I cannot trust that promise. The same promises were made about microtransactions never being used in RuneScape. I do trust that Jagex values its reputation too much to greatly harm the game. This will prevent the worst fears from coming true. But, I cannot trust that we will never see Solomon selling gold, xp lamps, or hard to obtain items. These things would could occur with the same justifications, the same promises, and the same amnesia of past declarations that we are seeing now.
Only by modifying the Squeal of Fortune and Solomon to be less intrusive and of minimal impact, not just to the game as a whole but also to each individual account; only by removal of overly enticing prizes (such as 200M gp or more bank space); only by the admission that at least certain aspects of the design and promotion of the Squeal of Fortune and Solomon's Store were bad for the game and thus failures in judgement, can these promises be trusted.
Unless Jagex has learned something from this experience, and publicly admits that, there is little reason to believe that this post will be ignored as soon as it is inconvenient.

30-Aug-2012 04:22:00

Th3 0nly1

Th3 0nly1

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player pays real money for gp = RWT
player pays real money for SoF
items which can all be converted to gp =/= RWT?!
so basically what youre saying is, RWT is ok as long as jagex is the
one getting the money! i get it now! =D
see this is what really gets to me, they stated in the post that micro trans. are good becuase funds are needed to keep expanding the game.
lets assume there are only 20,000 members in runescape
lets take the monthly membership fee in USD $7.95
7.95 x 20,000 members = $159,000 per month in revenue! and we all know there are ALOT more members than that.
so dont even... seriously.. dont even.
i want to believe in jagex that they truly want to make the game better but its difficult when i can catch them in a lie that easily.
do us all a huge favor and remove what youre PAYING customers dont want

30-Aug-2012 04:24:01

A Chicken

A Chicken

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The majority of people who hate the sof are people who already have a lot of cash and/or max stats. I for one actually enjoy coming on to do spins. Honestly if you are willing to spend thousands of dollars on spins I think you deserve your fake max stats because it would honestly take that much money.
As for your updates I agree with previous posts that say you need to make better updates, like take clan wars for example. We need an update extremely bad for that and have made numerous threads but you guys are just pumping out pointless updates to sof and solomon's general store which aren't that wanted because they are fine as it is.
Creating new ways to make your account secure and banning the gold sellers however are the only good things that I can see which are actually necessary.
Please focus more on making updates to things that actually deserve it like clan wars. ^_^

30-Aug-2012 04:24:19

One Who Wins
Sep Member 2022

One Who Wins

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Well, my best guess is "Account Guardian" is a new type of login system that would either:
1: Register your ip, and tell if it is out of realistic geographical location (from the previous ip)
2: Make it so there would be a login change limit that limits the change of email, pass, etc. to a certain period of time.
3: Require personal information (in order to change pass/email etc. that no one would give out to another person).
Many ways.

30-Aug-2012 04:24:25 - Last edited on 30-Aug-2012 04:24:59 by One Who Wins

u will avoid
Dec Member 2023

u will avoid

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I do not understand how you can lie to yourselves like that and think old school players will believe that reasoning. If you want to make money but still stick to your standards, you would increase your content and listen to player feedback. If people see good content then they might like the idea of paying more, especially if the Squeal of Fortune and Solomans general store were to be removed.
All I have seen recently is combat update hype, noob quests, and things being added to those two stores to waste your money.
Time will tell.
Violent Resolution #VR
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Runescape Dinasty 2008-2013 when EOC killed the clanworld

30-Aug-2012 04:26:26

Ghosttalon
Oct Member 2020

Ghosttalon

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Right on, Galahad Sir. He went the extra mile and said everything I would have continued on and said from my post on page 111, if I hadn't gotten too lazy to make more posts, nor thought you won't pay attention to them regardless, Mr. Gerhard.
Those are keepers: they express what most of us who KNOW and LOVED this game are feeling today, they're brutally honest about what we're seeing happen to our game, and they're well-written.
Kudos Sir.

30-Aug-2012 04:29:06

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