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-You can buy / sell items in small portions and don't have to gather a lot of, for example, yew logs, to sell them, because people tend to buy / sell in bigger quantities.
You can already do this, very easily. I've purchased small quantities of items down to inventories.
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-You don't have to spend your playtime hopping worlds and standing at banks messaging people who have private on friends or just aren't responding because they're doing something else at the moment. The same goes other way around of course.
You put the con right there, you'll spend the same time sitting at G.E. waiting for things to buy and sell.
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-Prices will be determined by demand and supply.
This already happens. Only the G.E. will make it far, far easier to buy and sell among friends/the same person's multiple accounts to artificially inflate the price of items.
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-"The OSRS community will lose player interaction?" A: Messaging someone saying I'll buy your (item) and saying Ty after the trade doesn't seem like much player interaction to me. Besides, the playerbase was interactive in other ways than trading in 2007-2008 anyways when there was G.E, so this isn't really an argument.
There's more interaction than that, you can barter or make other offers as well as buy/sell other items at the time. I've sold fruit and tree seeds to someone buying only one type on the TP.
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-"Game will be too easy if G.E is introduced to OSRS." No one likes to spend their time buying items for quests or skills they want to level for hours with no results.
Making the game easier IS bad. Making the game easier devalues skilling and collection of items/profit from doing things, replacing skilling and hard work with money. If you don't like sitting around to buy ****, get it yourself. I got 50 smithing off of quests and iron bars I made by hand.
Merc* bots will be much easier to use with the G.E., as well. Which is bad.
10-Jan-2015 00:37:31