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I really think it would be an incredibly smart move to think about adding something like bonds at the same time. You don't lose any revenue because someone has to pay for the bond for it to exist in game, and it will give a lot of the new F2Pers a goal to achieve enough money for a bond in their first two weeks, especially if it is made clear that they exist in old school upon the release of F2P. These of course should only be able to be used on membership, nothing else.
Having a method for players to use their GP to buy their membership would be fantastic. If the community are comfortable with bonds being bought for real money in Old School then we'd add it to the next poll.
People would vote no for bonds to be in game though if you can buy them with irl gp also.
Since you can buy gp then pretty much.
It was clear in the dev blog that rwt already exists - 17billion GP was taken from real world traders. If this is already happening 'under the table' then it would be much safer for players to be able to buy bonds from Jagex. Also, bonds would severely decrease the demand for gold from the goldsellers because bonds will be safer to buy, meaning hopefully less goldfarming bots and less people RWTing their winnings from staking etc.
I think the Old School team would need to make all of the benefits of bonds clear to the players before polling them though.
15-May-2014 14:09:06
