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Yet what you fail to see is that if people didn't accept Jagex being greedy like this, those MTX cosmetics wouldn't be behind additional paywalls, which would increase the audience who can get them. And if so many people truly cared about getting them not for their exclusivity, those same people could instead vote with their wallets such that those cosmetics wouldn't get discontinued in the first place.

If people want to stop this vicious cycle, they have to stop asking for rereleases and instead make it clear that they want any new cosmetics to be always available. That way, Jagex doesn't get their money as well (in addition to the money they received by falsely advertising a "discontinued" cosmetic to those who bought it for that), so Jagex is forced to decide which makes the most money and stick to that, instead of milking both players, and both players being treated like idiots.

(P.S. The above might sound pretty confusing at first, so I hope you re-read it enough many times so that you fully understand it, before/if replying to it.)

Congratulations; you're playing yourself when you don't even need to. Those items were either completely free of charge in the past, or at most required membership to obtain, not loyalty points as well, so there's no reason for them to cost loyalty points now.

Unless, of course, you made alternative versions that looked slightly different, since then it wouldn't be the same.

Why some people defend unethical business practices "because companies have to make money" (or similar sentiments) I'll never understand... I mean, you do realize that Jagex already makes millions in profits from membership revenue alone to sell the access to members content? They sure as hell don't need to paywall individual items, when selling the game experience as a whole already earns them hefty profits. They'd do just fine without all this extra greed, you can see it for yourself from their own financial documents, available online at Companies House for everyone to see. I recommend having a read before repeating the above quote again.

If an item was supposed to be discontinued, or vice versa if an item was supposed to be always available, then changing that fact after people already got them is disingenuous. Yes, I get that it's easy to feel envious when only some of them were rereleased instead of all, especially if the ones you would've wanted weren't, but if you were never promised them in the first place, how were you wronged? Being tempted is not the same as being wronged.

And nope, you can have both, it just won't be as ideal as it could be. Nothing stops it, no physical nor psychological force. How would the game exist as it is today if it wasn't possible, when we're living it now?