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AUTUMNELEGY
Apr Member 2008

AUTUMNELEGY

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I see the reasoning, but still definitely no. I would never want to see a way for people to buy gp with real life money on old school. That was one of the biggest things that has slowly dissuaded me from RS3 over the years. I understand the necessity of it for maintaining the company, but I still feel that it has been to the detriment of the game. Bonds have solid ground on RS3 however and it's definitely good that you can buy membership with gp, that's one thing I really like, so I think players should just be ready to find trustworthy people willing to transfer. There are a lot of clans that transfer on stream so that people can see that they don't scam. rock clicker

19-Jul-2014 15:12:15

Worldstream
Jul Member 2021

Worldstream

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While it was nice of you to ask, I think this is a waste of your time. A lot of people left RS3 because of bonds and micros. I doubt the polls will even hit 50% yes.

You guys should just focus on the continent. Thanks for thinking of us though.
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19-Jul-2014 15:19:11

Remove Hohol
Aug Member 2015

Remove Hohol

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Absolutely not.
Also, if you are going to do a poll on it, make sure that one of the questions is about the full criminalization of gold-swapping between games, because not only would that nicely eliminate the excessive amount of money entering the game, but it would allow us to report those annoying spammer bots for something much more substantial.

19-Jul-2014 15:24:19

OvO Drizzy

OvO Drizzy

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Is there a viable way to introduce bonds into old school without letting people buy OSRS gold with them?

Sadly not, that is the pay off for them and something that you guys need to decide if you are comfortable with.

You only seem to quote, and reply to the ones that are downing the idea of micro transactions. It's bad enough that you're allowing people to swap gold, and not only that, but allowing people to spam some of the key areas, and clan chats with their uselessness.

You said when this first came out that you're releasing it for those people that wanted the old game back.. Well, so far I've seen nothing but content from RS3 entering the game.

I have no doubt in my mind that if the poll that is posted, gets "passed" that it was 100% rigged. Anything to keep your pockets lined I'm sure, it's sad that the game has to be over run by the use of bonds.. If people want to pay for membership using bonds, great.. But then go play RS3, and earn that bond there because I can guarantee that the majority of the players DON'T want bonds.

PS:.. The addition of "bonds" will 100% ruin any Iron Man accounts, and totally mess up the prices that we currently have.

What to make more money as a company? Great, release F2P so that people can get decent levels, and then actually WANT to purchase P2P.. It's not that hard.. People don't just want up, and say I'm going to buy members on a game that I wasn't even able to experience for a long enough time. 30 days on RuneScape as a new person doesn't get you very far.. and the majority of RS3 players are playing to get bonds to switch over to here because the eco is horrible..

You released legacy way to late, and now it's pointless. OSRS will be the future of RS, it's the only version of the game that is fun, and everyone enjoys.

None the less, post the poll, let us vote it out

19-Jul-2014 15:55:54 - Last edited on 19-Jul-2014 16:02:12 by OvO Drizzy

Blitztod
Nov Member 2021

Blitztod

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Unless something is done about it, its just going to continue to get worse, Its either Bonds or limiting/removing Free trade at this point, i would much rather have trade fixed the players being able to buy bonds/Gold.

19-Jul-2014 16:23:35 - Last edited on 20-Jul-2014 07:39:05 by Blitztod

Charizard
May Member 2023

Charizard

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I like how people don't seem to grasp the idea that this is already and has long been a thing on Runescape 3. You can buy a bond sell it for gold then just transfer the gold through a friends chat. It's the exact same thing and if anything it would prevent botting on Oldschool Runescape and in turn make it better.

19-Jul-2014 16:43:53

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i own u 4ev

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I'm going to jump in here, because a lot of what I'm reading concerns me.

First of all, it seems the only reason that most of the people that are okay with it, is because of something that shouldn't exist in the first place, in my opinion anyway, game to game gold transferring. The transferring of RS3 gold to OSRS gold should not exist, period. It totally goes against the spirit of the game, and should be dealt with much like RWTing, because it has the same end effect (and often fuels such practices).

Anyway, that aside, this greatly concerns me because it seems many are willing to accept the micro-transaction crap little by little reading through this thread, which is exactly what happened in RS3 (along with the whole EoC thing which ruined PvP). I do not want to see that happen again. It seems there are a few others capable of seeing this slippery slope, but most haven't really seen the repercussions of an update like this. It's not that this update doesn't change much in and of itself, it will change some players mentality, much like the existence of game to game gold transferring has done. "Well x already exists, so allowing y to pass isn't much of a change." That's a very slippery slope my friends, just be aware of that.

19-Jul-2014 17:05:33

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