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Mod Ronan

Mod Ronan

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Bonds and Runefest


With the Runefest announcement being made earlier today many of you will have noticed that you are able to buy your tickets, hotels, food, drink and souvenirs using bonds. Last year showed us that there are a huge amount of Old School players that love attending Runefest and we thought it is only fair that we should start a discussion about whether you wanted to take advantage of this offer. The one thing to be clear about is that this is just a discussion and you won’t suddenly wake up one morning to see bonds appearing in Old School. If bonds are introduced they will be done on the communities terms and only after passing a poll.

The benefits of bonds have been well documented, they help in the battle against bots and real world trading, you can use them to buy membership (which is particularly useful when it comes to the F2P trial) as well being able to use them to pay for your Runefest trip. The one thing you as a community need to be aware of is that at some point a player will have to buy that bond for real world money and will trade that bond for gold coins. That is the reality of the system and you can’t have one without another.

The movement of gold between RuneScape and Old School via the gold swapping clans is well established and has been facilitating the use of bonds in Old School for a long time now. Bringing bonds directly into Old School will remove the risk that gold swapping clans bring.

We know that some of you may see bonds as a prelude to other microtransactions like treasure hunter or Solomon’s store. Again, if this community wanted these we could do them, but we are pretty sure you don’t. If you want bonds in Old School only to be used for membership and Runefest only then we can do that. If you don’t want bonds in Old School at all then you won’t see them.

This decision is for the community to make, and we think now is the right time to ask this question – how do you feel about bonds in Old School?

See the main RuneFest post here .

Mods Alfred, Ash, John C, Mat K, Reach, Ronan & Weath
The Old School Team

@JagexRonan

18-Jul-2014 14:45:02 - Last edited on 18-Jul-2014 14:58:40 by Mod Ronan

Ed Elric

Ed Elric

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I was always super anti micro-transactions, but Jagex got bonds right. Ya unfortunately a couple rich kids can buy their way to any buy-able 99 they want, but the benefits it has against third party real world traders, bots, etc. As well as the benefit of buying membership with gold far outweigh the minor anti competitive negatives. Full support from me.

18-Jul-2014 15:06:25

Starcry

Starcry

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The fact you've even considered this is worrying. Also,

""The movement of gold between RuneScape and Old School via the gold swapping clans is well established and has been facilitating the use of bonds in Old School for a long time now. Bringing bonds directly into Old School will remove the risk that gold swapping clans bring.""

So essentially you can buy gold in oldschool runescape (via other players I know, that doesn't make it any better). And you guys are totally fine with this? You're totally fine with the fact we could buy gold in Runescape 3 and then transfer it to Oldschool. You don't think that ruins the game for people who don't want it to be about how much irl cash you have?

How about you ban any gold transferring between games, so this game is seperate from Runescape 3 and actually keeps its integrity. Disgrace, this sort of thing is why you guys have lost so many subscribers yet you're still so blind to it, do you learn?

18-Jul-2014 15:06:28

Alpaca

Alpaca

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I thought I was coming back to play my favorite version of this game.

I'm not sure what is going on there with you guys, but you have been polling way too much stuff and offering far too many updates.

Your new models are just port overs from RuneScape 3.
Most polled questions are ripped off of RuneScape 3.
Most updates we get to this game are off of RuneScape 3.

What happened to the creative team that came up with such amazing content for us back in 2004-2006 that was so well designed for RuneScape 2. I wanted to see content that was completely original or utilized existing ideas to make something even better. Never did I want carbon copies of any old content. Regardless of how good any content is it can always be done better.

I didn't care if this server was updated. I cared that you guys wouldn't just move the main game to this game. You are doing EXACTLY that and aren't even trying to keep this an Old School Server. So you might as well change the name and while you are at it update the summary on the main page because that it completely invalid as well.

This isn't just due to Bonds its about every single update/devblog/poll this server has had.

18-Jul-2014 15:06:39 - Last edited on 18-Jul-2014 15:20:44 by Alpaca

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