Worst year for discontinued items?

[cookiestealer222]

BEFORE YOU READ POST: I'm relating real world events to made up scenarios in runescape to express frustration in both the rare market in runescape and the US economy.

 

 

 

Is it because of 100gp barrel of swamp tar?

 

The falling gold piece?

 

Possible swamp tar-euro?

 

player owned housing crisis?

 

 

 

combination of all the above?

 

staking?

 

 

 

seems rares, though having ups and downs, have generally not increased in value in the last 2 years

 

 

 

discuss

 

 

 

btw

 

100gp barrel of swamp tar= $100 barrel of oil

 

falling gold piece= US dollar

 

swamp tar-euro= petro-euro/OPEC uses US dollar to sell oil

 

POH crisis= US housing crisis

[Thus]

swamp tar?

[sithlord_man]

er...kinda confusing more English please?

[salim123]

whats with the swamp tar euro thing?

[cookiestealer222]

trying to do a play off of swamp-tar= oil for those who keep track of oil prices and the falling US dollar. Then comparing the petro dollar, which OPEC uses only the US dollar in selling oil/petro and talks of switching to the euro, hence petro-euro.

 

 

 

bascially comparing the rare market to the falling US economy.

[Giordano]

He's saying why discounted items are having their worst year this year, with some (comedic) examples.

 

 

 

Truth be told I have no idea of the current RuneScape economy so I can't say.

[Thus]

ok, this is a dumb topic

 

 

 

rares prices are just fluctuating, nm else.

[salim123]

trying to do a play off of swamp-tar= oil for those who keep track of oil prices and the falling US dollar. Then comparing the petro dollar, which OPEC uses only the US dollar in selling oil/petro and talks of switching to the euro, hence petro-euro.

 

 

 

bascially comparing the rare market to the falling US economy.

 

 

 

ah it makes much more sense now, you should add that to the bottom of your post, otherwise people will think you are crazy like i did :P

[DRUMINATOR17]

 

 

 

seems rares, though having ups and downs, have generally not increased in value in the last 2 years

 

 

 

 

 

 

As "comedic" although slightly exaggerated your examples may be...

 

 

 

I still fail to see how you can say they have not increased in the last 2 years.

 

 

 

They have gone up quite a lot in that time.

 

 

 

I paid 140mil for a phat just a few months ago, and had the opportunity to sell it for more then 50mil profit several times in the past few weeks.

 

 

 

Although that opportunity has been recently shot to hell.

[xsephiroth]

What discontinued items??

 

 

 

What does the United States, oil, apec/opec, the u.s. dollar have anything to do with Runescape?

[Jeffery]

He was giving an example and i just lost 30m on my purple phat i'm kinda Cabbaged off

[xsephiroth]

Maybe you shouldn't have spent so much gp's on a useless item

[Robert_de_Sable]

I'm sorry; do you speak English?

[Freesia]

Maybe you shouldn't have spent so much gp's on a useless item

 

Many people think otherwise, I'll let them prove you wrong

 

 

 

I think Jagex has never liked rares in the place so they have been introducing high value items like dfs, dfh and GS that have almost similar street value to rares to draw attention away from rares. Jagex wouldn't be happy to see an item they put in a game 6 years ago as an happy holiday drop become the state they are today. :boohoo:

[Our_Moon]

~Everyone is speculating. Wait a week, and calm the heck down until prices even out. People who promote this kind of thread are promoting the price changes.~

[meili]

~Everyone is speculating. Wait a week, and calm the heck down until prices even out. People who promote this kind of thread are promoting the price changes.~

 

 

 

Wait a week? By that time Grand Exchange will be out and who knows what effect that will have. If you are gonna wait a week you might as well wait 1 month.

[Zaaps1]

Lol, smart! I like it!

 

 

 

On topic: That's the reason I sold my "stock" :P

[Latinoking]

Rares like Red Mask went up alot for a while.

 

 

 

GF Rares.

[fakeitormakeit]

I can't really tell since I don't monitor the economy but from what I hear Jagex is trying to target rares.

 

 

 

lol I loved your play on examples.

[anonymouse_]

Obviously it's because of staking and GE :-$

 

Quite honestly, idc, I'm not selling my phat.

[Adam007]

It's definitely been a bad year for rares. If jagex hadn't made any updates this year, they may have continued with their 10x per year growth rate they used to have in their hayday when jagex hadn't started effecting the economy so much.

[Bini]

Maybe you shouldn't have spent so much gp's on a useless item

 

Many people think otherwise, I'll let them prove you wrong

 

 

 

I think Jagex has never liked rares in the place so they have been introducing high value items like dfs, dfh and GS that have almost similar street value to rares to draw attention away from rares. Jagex wouldn't be happy to see an item they put in a game 6 years ago as an happy holiday drop become the state they are today. :boohoo:

 

 

 

Yeah, I think that too.

 

When POH's were released prices fell and so did they when Skill capes

 

were released but as The Platypus said, wait a week or a month or a

 

couple of months and prices will rise again.

 

 

 

2 Years ago rares were very cheap because I bought 2 santas for 10M at

 

that time and yes, it has been a bad year and just for fun I wrote down

 

the price of Santas before Skill Capes were released, 27 - 30M and after

 

skill capes, 23 - 25M.

 

These numbers are absolutely accurate.

[SwreeTak]

Are you trying to say that th reason why rares haven't increased so much the last years because of that the irl USA economy hasn't been that good this year, and that it's not because the staking update and the GE?

 

If that is what you're trying to say, I don't think that you should create any more topics about the Rs economy.

[cheezekillz]

Are you trying to say that th reason why rares haven't increased so much the last years because of that the irl USA economy hasn't been that good this year, and that it's not because the staking update and the GE? If that is what you're trying to say, I don't think that you should create any more topics about the Rs economy.

 

 

 

No that's not what he's trying to say, what hes saying is that the U.S economy has been going down hill and this is similar to the rares falling in price as well. (For a number of reasons, e.g for the U.S economy the housing market crisis and for runescape the g.e and staking update are responsible for the recession.)

[Solidus_77]

Obviously it's because of staking and GE :-$

 

Quite honestly, idc, I'm not selling my phat.

 

 

 

same here.

 

 

 

Oh and the rares are just responding to changes in income. Them being widely considered luxury goods makes them very sensitive to changes. When GWD came out, partyhats all jumped by about 30mill because monster hunters were getting richer and when staking was destroyed, the staker's income fell, and the partyhats fell by a huge amount.

 

 

 

Want them to increase by a lot? People need to get richer.