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Transcendent

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In my own experience, on a F2P account if I got members lamps, I would keep them in my inventory and not destroy them, but it would not make me get members it instead made me stop playing the account because I was reluctant to destroy the members lamps but could not bank them so it stopped me playing the game after getting several in my inventory.

Getting bankable items is an incentive to get members, but getting items you can't bank and which clog up your inventory is an incentive to stop playing the game.

The solution is give F2P a F2P usable lamp, and tell them if they were members they would have gotten a better lamp.

The members lamps can't be made bankable because they are meant to be used when you get them based on the levels you currently have, not saved for later to get more XP, and making them bankable would require making them record all your levels at the time the lamps were received, which would make the lamps not stackable in your bank since they would all have different levels, and require a lot of sever data storage for all accounts, so is not a feasible idea.
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12-Jul-2018 07:53:50

Sharp-shin

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UrekMazino said :
Something something, incentive for f2p players to buy membership.

This, really. The more membership sales the game gets, the better.


Transcendent said :
UrekMazino said :
Something something, incentive for f2p players to buy membership.

Even if you're right, Jagex isn't going to change how it works.


Of course they would, to not have players quit.

Apparently Jagex wants players to quit, or else TH wouldn't exist anymore, and this thread would become obsolete automatically.
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13-Jul-2018 21:58:44

Dilbert2001
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I'll say let free players bank them but then they can't be taken out of the bank before they become members.

Letting them bank the lamps can be used as an exploit to get better xp later when they become members though, so the xp awarded from the lamps should be kept at a very small portion of what it will normally get, say like what a normal level 30 player will get even when they rub it at level 99. :)

13-Jul-2018 22:25:05 - Last edited on 13-Jul-2018 22:25:38 by Dilbert2001

Supper Man40
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Not that I support MTX at all, but I agree. If I was a F2P player who bought MTX I probably wouldn't even bother with TH since you're literally wasting money if you're not a member.


Not sure why you would buy keys but not membership, but that's another story.

14-Jul-2018 08:36:06

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Sharp-shin said :

Apparently Jagex wants players to quit, or else TH wouldn't exist anymore, and this thread would become obsolete automatically.


You might have a point there.

Dilbert2001 said :
I'll say let free players bank them but then they can't be taken out of the bank before they become members.

Letting them bank the lamps can be used as an exploit to get better xp later when they become members though, so the xp awarded from the lamps should be kept at a very small portion of what it will normally get, say like what a normal level 30 player will get even when they rub it at level 99. :)


Jagex doen't let players store lamps because they are intended to be used when gotten not saved to get higher levels of XP later, plus they want to sell lamps not have players hoard them and then not buy any Treasure Hunter keys.

On F2P, it doesn't do any good to get members lamps because you can't use them and you can't bank them, so they just stop F2P from playing the game, and many will and have quit playing an account rather than destroy the lamps, I don';t know if anyone ever buys members to use a few lamps in their inventory, I'd guess not many do, so I think but can't prove its reducing the playerbase not gaining members.

Having other items you can bank would make someone want member, a lamp you can't use or bank doesn't help anyone.

Supper Man40 said :
Not that I support MTX at all, but I agree. If I was a F2P player who bought MTX I probably wouldn't even bother with TH since you're literally wasting money if you're not a member.


Not sure why you would buy keys but not membership, but that's another story.


F2P gets one free Key a day. I don't think many F2P buy keys, but I could be wrong. They do get and use free keys though.
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14-Jul-2018 14:45:51

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