Sunny_Aisling

By your logic, it is illegal to have drop parties or to give away free gp to some scrubs. Quit grasping for straws, Stev's example is a perfectly legit loophole. I'm not grasping for straws those are different scenarios. You don't accept real money from someone when you put items in the party room or when you trade your friends free stuff. The legal loophole would have to have no relation to "free runescape character with every joke" and more "give me donations" and in a completely unrelated note I randomly decide to give you some in-game items. Look up the concept of baksheesh. That aside, the RWTer and the buyer would have an implicit, unspoken "understanding" that, when questioned by more respectable people such as yourself, both sides will hotly deny they are doing anything illegal. And they aren't, not on paper.

By your logic, it is illegal to have drop parties or to give away free gp to some scrubs. Quit grasping for straws, Stev's example is a perfectly legit loophole.

What's wrong with the new look? The way I see it it's a return to classic, does no one remember what platebodies used to look like on girls?

Have you ever visited world 1 before they took away dicing? This actually looks like it could work at getting more subscriptions.

It sounds like their hand is being forced now to reassure people. Just checked f2p and the bots are back in the mining guild.

The trade limit put on pure f2p accounts when newly created has taken care of most F2p bots, the throwaway mentality doesn't work anymore since you need to pay at least one month for each and every bot - because of this I guess most goldfarmers have turned for p2p bots. Gold in inventory, red portal in clan wars. Not a problem.

Anti-bot measure. Think about it.

"There is still a trade limit in which certain players can not make a trade where they give away more than 25,000 coins, to prevent players from buying/selling gold. This was introduced on 22 November 2011 to combat Gold farming. The limit only affects accounts created after this limit was introduced, which have never had membership." http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Trade_limit

No one here knows about Sacred 2? Pic related.

How does Jagex logic differ from your logic? Don't you conclude the same thing? I'm not the company. My imaginary posse? That's actually the FTP community FYI, their hypocritical attitude is real.

You're missing the point. They still paid money for a Jagex product that affects their RuneScape gameplay. By Jagex logic, that means they're able to pay for something like highscores if they really wanted to.

They can't be a fee-paying FTP community because it defeats the idea of being FTP. FTP actually is about the money no matter what anyone says, only its the tail end of the gold coin. It's the decision not to pay for the package called membership at any point whatsoever for an account. Being unable to pay counts toward that decision as well. Strictly speaking, pure FTP means having nothing to do with membership at all. If some bloke pigs out cash to change their display name, FYI they're no longer purely FTP because they paid money for a member's feature. It's along the same line of reasoning as to why those who train only FTP skills in members, are excluded from the street-cred of being considered pure among the minority diehard FTP community. The pure FTPers can't pay for highscores, because by doing so they're inviting those same people they've been shunning all this time. Except the pure FTPers did come to the consensus that paying money to change your display name, a member's feature, will not change their pure status. That's hypocritical no matter how you cut it. Fact of the matter is, doing this means they paid money. That's what members do. If anyone starts using loopholes like Funorb membership to circumvent the heart of their own rules, that sends a message full of dollar signs to Jagex. So the logic goes that, if FTP have in the past paid for something that doesn't affect their stats, but still think of themselves as pure FTP, why not the highscores? This is the crack in the armor Jagex leaped at to monetize, whether it works out or not.