One of the major points I was trying to get to is that it's already difficult for lower levels to get started seeing how wc, mining other raw materials are becoming penniless. I could go PvM for a few days and have enough cash for 99 Fletching, Firemaking, a decent smithing level, and a great cooking level all due to the fact that those items are so widely botted that attaining these items are incredibly easy and cheap. By introducing the grand exchange, all those botted items would go into the Grand Exchange at fairly low prices, if they're not selling the botters will lower the prices until they are, resulting in a complete crash of those certain items I have just listed. We would have to sell them even cheaper then they are in order to actually sell the item but that would result in so much of a loss for us that it wouldn't even be worth it. Runes, ores, logs and raw materials would then slowly start to follow if they were not immediately effected. Overtime the prices of all items would lower considerably and create a completely new economy.
This would lead to other problems, making this game to a degree, like the economy we see day to day. The lower levels would struggle to get anywhere while the higher levels wouldn't really care because they have the money to throw around in the GE and don't exactly care to much about profit. In return we would introduce the problem that RS3 currently has with RWT, for those who don't know that's Real World Trading, buying gold with actual cash to move forward within the game. This would increase botting even more (because that's where these sites are getting their money) and create and endless chain of bots, rwt and a ruined economy.
16-Jan-2015 12:04:14
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