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1. Look, I get it, you don't personally care about whether others see your stuff or not, and that's fine, but there are people who do care whether their stuff is shown to everyone around them or not; otherwise Jagex wouldn't have made cosmetics that draw more attention, since their aim with MTX is to sell it as much as possible. To say that those people wouldn't be affected by a toggle like that is false; it influenced their purchasing decision, without which they might not have made the purchase (for some it was crucial, others saw it as a plus).

2. I don't think you understood what I meant by voting with your wallet here, so to clarify: since you're still a paying member (and a premier member to boot), in Jagex's eyes, despite your complaints about the pets, you're still fine with them. Otherwise, you wouldn't have renewed your subscription, let alone paid for a year's worth in advance, because the trolls at portables are hardly a new thing, so you've had the opportunity to vote with your wallet like that already, but did not. And since you did not, because there are people paying money for those cosmetics, in Jagex's eyes it's the best move for them to not add a toggle, since they get your money already without it, and they can get even more money from new cosmetic purchases.

3. A small addition to #2, even though you now say "I never have and never will buy this stuff", in Jagex's eyes, they think they'll be able to change that in the future, to still be able to persuade you into buying them. It's the same reason why non-ironmen can't opt-out from TH, despite wanting to.

If it makes you feel better, by all means call it ridiculous, but it doesn't change the facts: only money talks to Jagex nowadays, so if you truly mind something, you have to talk with your wallet and explain with words why you did what you did with your wallet. I don't like it either, but unless you want to keep complaining over and over with nothing changing, you have to change something.

Even ceasing to buy premier club and instead paying monthly would make Jagex more alert and worried about losing your membership money, since you could quit a lot faster than having to wait an entire year. But when people buy premier club, Jagex can just slack for the majority of the year and then worry about your renewal only when it's time to buy premier club again next year.

I don't do PvP, so please excuse my lack of knowledge on it, but from what you just described, it sounds to me like it was a bug, not "an unintended consequence". Being able to summon pets and have them hang around you at portables isn't a bug, it's very much intended to be possible. Whether your intent is to troll people or not is what comes after that fact; you can't prevent it without also harming those who don't troll people.

So all in all, that comparison is unfair because you're comparing two too different things, where they don't even belong to the same category.

RS3 wouldn't survive if enough many people like you stopped paying for their membership, just saying. Membership monetization is aimed at everyone, while MTX is aimed at the people who can afford it and are willing to buy it, so it severely limits its audience. And when you have such a small audience, they're gonna get bored when there aren't people to show their stuff at, besides those who also have the same stuff. The problem here is that you think you don't matter, but there are so many others who feel the same way, so you could make a difference if you cared enough to do it.

But whatever, it's your choice, least I tried to tell you. I guess we'll continue seeing each other here in the future.

Well then either you failed to communicate something in that comparison or I'm missing something due to my lack of understanding PvP; whatever the case, I guess we're gonna have to agree to disagree, unless you want to try another comparison or try to explain that one again so that I get it.

This has to be the first time I'm hearing someone claim that drakes cause people to get killed; where would it even happen? Only place I could imagine is endgame group bosses, but there you could just kick the people who bring a pet you don't want?