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Starcry

Starcry

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Wtf are you kidding? bonds??

So we can now buy 99 skills with bonds just like eoc scape?

Its obvious that the old school mods are controlled by the money hungry eoc mods.. The old school mods said they would never add pay to win/squeel of fortune to OSRS, but now they wanna add it *facepalm*

We've just sat down and worked out that to buy 99 prayer would cost about £300 ($500).

£300 is actually very cheap. You could grind for 250 hours picking white berries, or you could work a basic summer job for 40 hours. I can't see this being a good thing for the short term and long term of OSRS. In game wealth and real life wealth should under no circumstances be tied together. You should ban transfer of gold between games and ban people who buy gold from gold farmers.

18-Jul-2014 17:53:52

Starcry

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You realize that people already do this with bonds in RS3, right? They just transfer the gold between the 2 games, which is easy enough, as long as you don't get scammed by the other person. They're only offering this because many people have asked and a lot of players already buy bonds by either playing RS3 for a few hours or transferring gold from this game to that game to purchase a bond (I saw a guy who did that while woodcutting yesterday).
Rather than letting the RWTers win, we should buckle down on the accounts who are buying gold right now, not introduce a new method to let them do it.

This.

18-Jul-2014 17:58:08

Sir Tankladd

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Bonds would stick us in the same boat as RS3 and defeat the whole purpose of OSRS. As depicted in the title, "Old School" RuneScape represents an era earlier in the game's history where players couldn't just go use mommy's credit card to buy a 99, or the best gear in the game. It doesn't matter how you limit it, bonds will still create a problem in the game.

Should they pass, my membership will run out, and won't be renewed. If bonds are implemented I'll have no hope for Jagex or this game.

18-Jul-2014 17:59:40

Fred315315

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I support the use of bonds in osrs. This would eliminate the gold swapping clans and remove a major source of scamming both in osrs and rs3. If you don't introduce bonds, jagex should introduce a risk-free method of trading between osrs and rs3 to put an end to the scamming. In addition, once bonds are added (if they are), please make the gold swapping clans against the rules.

18-Jul-2014 18:01:57

Tromosthus
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After EOC and the microtransaction explosion occurred, I kept my account but didn't play the game. I eventually went to wow and payed for several months. Once oldschool launched, I was through with other games again.

I honestly think a better approach would be to double the cost of membership for OSRS and EOC and get rid of all microtransactions in both games.

All of that to say, as a continuous member since 2005, microtransactions in oldschool will be the final act for my my continuing membership.


While they lose £5 a month from your membership, they earn another £20 a month from someone else who buys a bond, a couple of spins and maybe a skin from Solomons. That's why the people who say they'll quit due to microtransactions are just wasting their breath - the money they bring in from microtransactions is at such a point that it's actually more beneficial to keep them and lose a few members.

I mean, that's how F2P games survive now, not to mention the whole mobile gaming market - the microtransactions within them, so evidently there is some worth there.
I completely understand the financial impact. However, I disagree with the membership growing because of them.
My statement is not a threat, because in the grand scheme it means something only to me. Instead, it is my view of action and reaction as it applies to me.

18-Jul-2014 18:04:50

Sfa05

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If bonds are introduced how will trading them be implemented? Would they still require a payment in order to trade? Seeing as we have no GE we can't make that bond movement the same way RS3 does. What's stopping someone from hoarding bonds when gold prices are at their lowest from gold farmers and then selling them later so that they get a profit thanks to gold farmers. This time around let's think hard about an update before polling it.

Clans especially could benefit from this, although I don't see the community accepting this movement overall.

Off topic: Will you guys be willing to have a discussion on what you'd like to see bounty hunter be like with your players? Many of us have ideas that are actually applicable and would help activity out but we've been largely ignored on that end.

18-Jul-2014 18:06:32

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