I don't actually play Runescape anymore, but I still read the Tip.It Times every once in a while... Regarding the second article, why not take the idea a step further? Why not make skills un-buyable altogether? Eliminate the ability to buy skills, and as the author pointed, much of the demand for RWT would disappear. At the core of the whole problem is that gold has become over-powered. I don't think Jagex's original intentions were to make skills buyable anyway, it just happened as a side-effect of economic expansion.
