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IPB, because i pushed for the conversion heavily .

I disagree. How is it fair that by accident of simply being born across the ocean from the eventual Jagex HQ that I have absolutely no opportunity to attend this event? Yes I can purchase the ticket and redeem the item if I seriously wanted to, but why would I put that money into an event and get 5% opportunity 'payback' than I would if I actually lived in England and could attend? I don't know. Call me bitter..but this doesn't seem fair. Do you have the ablility to think outside of yourself? People payed money to go to RuneFest, they deserve a nice little cosmetic item. There is no reason that this is "unfair" I do, And i'm a convention goer. Most Comic-Cons or cons for movies/shows give exclusive free stuff for attendees. Often it's a promotional bag of items from various vendors attending who want free publicity. San Diego Comic con - has had exclusive action figures for every major line from Gi Joe to Star Wars/transformers/marvel/dc whatever for the past decade or so. These items would SKYROCKET on ebay after the con and sell for triple or more of what an attendee paid for them.the following few days, some of these items are hundreds more now than they were. Then hasbro and others got the bright idea "we can make more money if we sell our con exlusives online at our website the following day at the store online the next day!" - Not many people complained, even though the item lost a metric ton of value. Why? 1) although toy collecting is expensive, not everyone can take a week off, fly to san deigo and attend 2) it alienates collectors. collectors who spend anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars on a line per year. 3) It's good PR - hasbro gets kudos once a year from the collector community for making nice figures available to all. One issue is - people who go to cons often sell free stuff on ebay to cover the costs. I know a few years ago - the iron man "Stark industries" flash drives from the marvel booth were selling for $20-30. Sometimes you can sell your bag to cover your ticket cost. Jagex has stated numerous times RWT and selling items is horrible, not in the spirit of the game and the sort. doing this - in an ADULT ONLY con when the audience is 13-18 and making it an exclusive thing in london certainly seems to indicate the spirit of the game has shifted. Make some exclusive plush animals, or comic, something tangible, exclusive and sellable - keep game items out of it. I'm all for con exclusives, but game content for an overpriced (sorry, i'm comparing it to conventions on the hole) con seems to contradict everything jagex has stood for. It's not about the price though, I've spent over $300 on collectibles in the last 60 Days according to my bank account :-P - so obviously I can swing a $116 ticket however. 1) It doesn't seem fair to do this in a game populated by kids who cant attend the event 2) even if i bought a ticket, I have a JOB, i can't just take off of work on a dime 3) the event would probably cost an american person a grand or so, and not everyone has that type of money (food, hotel, flight, other $$$ to buy stuff) So no, don't see where in game exclusive content is needed for this con, it doesn't affect my interest. i'd rather go to SDCC or if london, LFCC because you get more value for your money and there will be more to do than drink some whiskey with some gamers at those cons than runefest will have to do.

"if you have to justify why or how you are mature, you are not mature" ~Rab Never heard better words in my life. Very true.

I'd like to think the world would be less wealthy than it is now, and the world would be devoid of much of it 's entertainment they take for granted.

I'll do a few of my favorites now. xD - i could spam this topic all to hell with hall of famers and gold medalists but these stick out. [

as an autograph collecting convention [bleep]. you can get into the london film and comic con for £10 euros or less depending on the day. You can get into dragoncon or San Deigo comic con (Two of the biggest and best in the world) for under half for a day, or a bit more for all 4 or 7 days (depending on the packages) Most USA cons cost $10-15 a shot to get in the door. Most big cons have lots of autograph guests, the bigger ones have exclusive collectible figures for major toy lines with hasbro, and others there. Most big cons have hundreds or more of dealers selling collectibles. No con i know of - American based or British based ever includes food or drink in the price. I have an epic feeling this will tank. badly. Hell for $115, that gets me in the door to adventurecon for the day, autographs of Jake Lloyd (little vader episode one), Mark Ryan (Bumblebee from transformers movies), Charisma Carpenter and probably two more autograph guests of my choosing.

People use the economy to support and downtalk any issues on runescape, Personally, I enjoyed bonus weekend, i DON'T CARE what effect it had on the economy, it was the first time i spent 5 or 6 hours grinding a skill and ENJOYED it. in years. 99 were "undervalued" the day jagex added macros in the form of make x to the game. Dont get all whiney and elitist because your cape was devalued for a weekend if someone played die hard and smart for 4-6 hours because from my standpoint, your 99's are macro'ed if they were done with a make x. infact, the longer you have had the cape, the cheaper you got it for anyway, making double xp weekend people STILL PAY MORE.

Oh yeah. Well Deserved.

Noone is stopping you from using your money on items or skills. If you HAVE money, why do you need more? and more importantly why play a game to make only more money? And why not do it in a way that don't affect others? I'm surprised of your comment. I dont play every hour, my money may as well make me more money from when I can play :)

if i have money, I want to be able to spend it however i deem fit. If it raises the prices to where you cant afford stuff, too bad, too sad for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsClnVfJwHA&feature=PlayList&p=8836D8B4BF346416&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=5

Oh man that could be a good idea. There are a few people that I would want to sign my copy of Mass Effect 2. That's actually an interesting cast. Seth Green and Lance Henriksen would prove to be tough to get on the manuals - but are easy enough to get on card thanks to inkworks. I've been trying to track down Keith David for saints row 1 & 2 for ages, so good luck . I've been trying to track down a few voice actors for awhile (Three Dog and others from Fallout), David and Daniel Dae Kim (Saints Row) and the star wars talents. The only problem is video game casts now feature big name actors that are already tough to get like Liam Neeson (Fallout) and Eliza Dushku (Saints row)

EPIC NEWS. I almost made a sticky out of this :$

They make good items to get signed for game voice actors :P

I don't see the need for it.

it's not that great

Double standards, can't damn them for being worse than you can any other country. Unless you are predisposed to a bias. The Chinese have done lots of shady things to it's own people and Tibet in 10 years, the mexican cartels stitch faces on soccer balls and terrorize people domestically, you're going to tell me that isreal is damned for having to make tough choices in a time of war? and they are surrounded by enemies. This is being blown out of proportion IMO.

@ Yguy Google "human rights offenses committed by Chinal" Google "human rights offenses committed by Africal" Google "human rights offenses committed by Russia" Google "human rights offenses committed by <any other middle east country"" Google "human rights offenses committed by india" They have some lengthy rap sheets too

Damn Right For - I know what Rick looks at when its late at night

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Ben Rothlisberger said the same thing.... :P I'm finding more and more College aged women make the moves before you think it ;) Must be the liqour.

meh, as a guy who spends lots on sports/nonsports (been big into the entertainment stuff by inkworks and rittenhouse recently) cards weekly, I see it as an industry killer that could cripple the card market as a hole. Of course forged holograms are slightly different than forged autograph inserts, but it's not hard to think what if.....