TheScienceFreak

*Glares at the change in Trouble Brewing prices* Yeah... not announcing updates like that and completely denying that they did it frustrates me...

My article was not about the GE or prices. I used the GE as an example in my argument that just plain ranting isn't doing it's job anymore. If would have read the article in it's entirety you might have grasped the fact that I was only using it as an example. Discussing all the flaws in the GE would take thousands upon thousands of words which is not suited for an article, but more for a topic like this. If that was your intention, it would have helped your argument loads better not to touch the topic of the GE. That said, what are we supposed to do for random things we don't like? Shoot text off into the breeze?

It seems I'm with the bandwagon here when I say that the first article got it all wrong. For one, the Grand Exchange is horribly flawed, and, if we are to follow JaGex's own trends, needs to be changed drastically, since it no longer serves its original purpose: to stop RWT. Now, the article at hand here is simply wrong the current JaGex trend, which is actually covering up mistakes rather than admitting them. For one, all Trouble Brewing prices got slashed by 90% of their cost (making the rewards mean a tenth as much, and screwing old holders of these items over thousands of Pieces of Eight). This has been in the rants in both the German and English forums. The response in the German forums by a JMod who locked it, abbreviated, simply said: "Prices deflate over time. My phone is not worth as much as when I bought it, so this is a natural trend." This is, however, a lie, as this mistake occurred the same week that the Onyx prices were screwed up in the TzHaar area, when they changed how player stock was done. Onyx was fixed in two days, while the Trouble Brewing rewards were never fixed. Relating that to the current state of the GE, JaGex simply wants to deny the fact that there's a problem. They occasionally want to get rid of the merchanters, while ignoring the blatant fact that there is RWT occurring on the GE system. As a radio announcer, Rush Limbaugh (not a huge fan, but this paraphrase is good) said, 'When a company makes a mistake, admits it, and fixes it, that's only a minor blunder. However, when they hide it and pretend that it was intended, that, sir, is horrible'. So, JaGex simply should try to... I dunno, own up to their mistakes? I really don't like their new head honcho, because of this.