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Comedy
Nov Member 2013

Comedy

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full GE please. offline trading or not doesn't matter to me... games so boring standing around trying to get items for high level grinding and content, or low level quests.


Games been out long enough, just do it already..



just how I feel about it.. I know some people wont agree.

15-Dec-2014 00:44:24 - Last edited on 15-Dec-2014 00:45:33 by Comedy

Viliant
Jan Member 2023

Viliant

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I love playing old school, it gives me a nice nostalgic feeling and it's so smooth. But I don't have time anymore to be sitting around selling items. Like most people that play 2007 I have to work and study for a career in life. So with the time I can give myself on the game, I'd rather not spend it all trying to sell or buy something; especially not when I have to run around banks to get it done.

So I support GE, sorry for any reason other people have for not wanting GE in old school, just thought I'd share the reason I want it.

15-Dec-2014 00:48:05

Mertauh

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I'm one for the full G.E. while there are a few drawbacks to it, I think the positives vastly outweigh them and I think the main reason that people dislike the grand exchange is because they associate it with the removal of the wilderness PKing and free trade restrictions which the old school team would NEVER let happen. I'll vote in favor of the full G.E. :)

15-Dec-2014 00:49:33

Eberwolf
Dec Member 2009

Eberwolf

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Why are none of the options that will be polled going to be similar to most MMO trading posts? Why not introduce an auction house similar to WoW? This allows players to post buy and sell offers at any price they wish, while also allowing players to see who posted them and therefore being able to contact those players if they wish to barter, and that way they also expire after a certain amount of time, or if polled, expire upon logging out. This would also fix the problem the OP mentioned about phony buy offers as the gold would be taken ahead of time because the buyer placing the offer would have to list a desired buy price. So it would be the GE EXCEPT that you can set your own price and view items being sold ordered by price, as opposed to attempting to buy/sell an item at a blind offer. My main gripe with the GE that keeps me strongly against having it is the simple fact that I can't view individual player offers, instead I'm forced to choose a price I want to buy at and hope someone is selling at that price, or even worse, making a sell offer and potentially losing out on a lot of gold if player offers were higher then the sell offer I chose simply because I can't see the offers that are placed behind the scenes.

15-Dec-2014 02:26:06

HUF

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Might as well make it the full ge the tradeing post is super annoying having to go and meet up with people in a way kinda more effort thank zyb. if the full ge came out then there would be alot less bots/merchers and alot less people getting scammed i think that the grade exchange would be a great idea for oldschool :D

15-Dec-2014 02:43:57

Eberwolf
Dec Member 2009

Eberwolf

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HUF said :
Might as well make it the full ge the tradeing post is super annoying having to go and meet up with people in a way kinda more effort thank zyb. if the full ge came out then there would be alot less bots/merchers and alot less people getting scammed i think that the grade exchange would be a great idea for oldschool :D


In the original post they already backed up with data from RS3 that botting increased with the introduction of the GE because it made it easier and considerably faster for them to off-load botted materials for stacks of gold. Less scams sure, but common sense should prevent a lot of these already anyways so I feel no remorse for those who choose not to do their research. Also merchanting is not the demon most players believe it to be, it's just the product of having a free/open economy, it is just another way of making money. There are players who are patient and those who are impatient, the merchanter essentially buys from the impatient players who are too lazy to sell their items at market to high-end market values and instead sell it at a discount to get rid of it faster. The merchanter then becomes like other patient players who will spend more time trying to sell those items at a higher markup. There's no scam or wrong doing here, if you sell to a merchanter then you are either lazy or didn't do your research. Merchanters will thrive with GE or not, the only way to remove merchanters is to force players to buy and sell items at fixed prices (and by fixed I don't mean market price).

15-Dec-2014 02:54:48 - Last edited on 15-Dec-2014 02:55:13 by Eberwolf

KurumiiXD

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Ummmmmmmmmmm not everyone will quit allot of people on the forums here are voting yes for it hun =) , i think if it came out not everyone would quit.

If it comes out so what, what the big deal? and the grand exchange is 2007 and this is old school 2007 so i see no reason why it got anything to do with rs3/eoc no were close.

Even if it does come out you don't have to use it just do what you normally do.

But seriously that comment of you saying everyone will quit it no just no lol.

15-Dec-2014 03:10:22

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