Careful OSRS team, this idea is obviously against the ideology many OS players hold for this game, and it will damage this game you've worked VERY hard to grow and cause many people to lose interest and quit. As you said, people don't often quit because of updates not passing, but they will quit over big changing updates, like bonds in osrs would be. The argument that people can just buy RS3 bonds and transfer wealth etc. so therefore this is actually not introducing anything new is a bad argument because 1.) there is always the risk of being scammed for large chunks of GP, this serves to both a.) keep people away from doing it in the first place and b.) allow players who don't buy bonds and xfer gp to believe (and this is important) that not many people are buying bonds, which allows them to keep their feel-good-nostalgia-OSRS-is-a-real-game glasses on tightly, which keeps ther membership money coming in. Disillusion large portions of this playerbase by introducing bonds directly into OSRS, allowing anyone who wants to buy GP and therefore EXP to do so unfettered, and you will find that many people leave. We've probably all quit and left RS before, so I know most of us have it in us to leave and quit again if OUR PERCEPTION of OSRS shifted so radically.
I know you JMODS will claim that this is soley on us to decide, that you are simply putting it out there as is your duty as mods, but I feel that you should show respect for the community and show that you truly do understand our desires by not even introducing or entertaining this kind of possibility in the first place. It would be like if the president of a democratic state with a large middle class and small welathy class wanted to "just talk about" eliminating all taxes for the rich and increasing taxes on all the middle class, but hey, they're just asking about it!!! The President just wanted to see how the community felt about such a change in the tax system! Show respect for ur players and we'll stay.
18-Jul-2014 16:28:16
