In my opinion I think rare items still have a chance to be considered, rare. At the moment its very difficult to sell a party hat. Either you leave it in the GE to gather dust for months or you accept reality and sell it for a depreciated value along with worthless junk items. Honestly, this cannot go on. With this new graphic update, I suspect alot more players will be joining runescape for the sole reason of better graphics. With that being said, I think alot of players will stop playing because they will realize one of runescape's terrible flawes, its a grind fest. People will get bored and leave. Now, the players that do stick around will get stronger, wiser, and would like an ego boost to prove themselves, hence - Party Hats. Now, with this new wave of players I think Party Hats will become wanted and valued. My second reason onto why Rare's still have a hope is quite simple, Jagex is doing things right and listening. I think that Jagex will realize that there is a problem with the way rare's are being traded and implement a solution to fix it. Im not sure what that solution may be. I still think there is a hope, what do you all think?