Honestly, I've been okay with TH up until this point. It gets a lot of flak for being overpowered and pay to win, but only in a limited, reasonably well established way. The company needs to make money, and selling bonus exp through dubious loot boxes was a reasonable compromise between the hardcore players and the more casual people who don't have days to grind levels out at this point in their lives.
This "promotion", however, blows all of that out of the water. Smouldering lamps have long been seen as one of, if not the, most powerful TH promotion purely because they let you convert bxp into levels without ever training the skill, something which I believed bonus exp was meant to prevent from happening.
I'm honestly a little disgusted, not least because I have no doubt it will tick all of the boxes that the MTX team need to show their superiors that this was a good idea and they can push this farce even further.
Please reconsider this, Jagex. The short term profits are not worth selling what little integrity the game has left.
22-Aug-2019 16:06:53