I'm extremely bored so i'm just going to post this for no apparent reason to waste your time.

 

 

 

I'll go through some recent/future updates that show this could eventually happen in an attempt by jagex to completely stop rl item traders.

 

 

 

Lootshare

 

With lootshare, because over time drops are evenly spread out between all players, shares of expensive monster drops wouldn't need to be given to the people who helped kill the monster, so if the trade system was removed monster hunters would be somewhat happy.

 

 

 

Staking Update

 

Jagex removed 2 player staking because it was an alternative way for rl item traders to trade over gold and replaced it with a method of staking where the stakable amount was firm and the winner was more random, kind of like removing the normal trade system and replacing it with a grand exchange right?

 

 

 

Grand Exchange

 

This is the big one, it makes trading completely anonymous so it is impossible for rl traders to trade to other players, while almost completely replacing the current trade system.

 

 

 

Assist System

 

Removes the need for the trading system when assisting over players.

 

 

 

Could it be true or just one huge coincidence that all these updates are released around the same time? Discuss.

JaGeX may put in more updates like these to make it harder for real life item traders to function, but I doubt that they'd ever eliminate the enitre trading system. Doing so would have a major (and probably bad) effect on the game.

maybe jagex wants it to be like WoW. After all the great exchange is basically a acution house. So yes they are trieing to remove tradeing, but not as a whole

maybe jagex wants it to be like WoW. After all the great exchange is basically a acution house. So yes they are trieing to remove tradeing, but not as a whole

 

 

 

Sure they do. :roll:

Bumped, because you're all too busy telling some guy who can't afford a runescape membership to eat less big macs to possibly post here.

 

 

 

8-)

mmm big macs.

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, it's quite a discussion nowadays. I've got an article on my blog about it and everything.

Oh God, they better not remove trading, the method was here long ago, the same blokes are going to end up destroying the game at the rate they are going.

 

 

 

Thing is, if the trade screen is removed, EVERYONE is going to rant, and I mean everyone, possibly on par with the staking update, possibly, no, it will be WORSE, and then A LOT of people are going to quit playing entirely.

 

 

 

Only a few days' time can tell...

I don't personally see them doing that, although then again I never expected anything like what they did to the Duel Arena to happen. Too many players would quit, the rants would overflow, they'd nerf it immediately. And seriously, Runescape is a game. You play games for fun, and the companies providing are supposed to make updates primarily for that. But hey, as long as Jagex has your five dollar bills, why do they care...

 

 

 

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Such a vivid imagination :|

The are releasing trade alternatives but Jagex are not that dumb. (I hope not.)

woot more tread about the same thing :D

 

 

 

heck i even have tread about it :lol: (mines was the first of them all to be about JAGEX removing the drop and trade option )

Thats the most ridiculus thing i've ever read :-#

They'll never remove trading, what i do see them doing though is making it so the value of items is put up in the trade window, making it near impossible for mercers and the like to do their thing.

If they abolished trading, then I would quit :D

I wouldn't be surprised if Jagex would do such thing, but limit the values you can trade so that you can still pass some food to someone when he needs it or something.

 

 

 

So yea I think it's possible and IMO it wouldn't be all that bad really

Real World Item Traders are DESTROYING RuneScape. Their next "update" will probably to end RuneScape entirely. Hey, at least there aren't any bots. :uhh:

if they remove the trade system, people would just put ashes for sale for like 3m and then the RWT buys it, Voila you just got 3m.

Personally It wouldn't really bother me if they did do away with the trade system the way it is. As long as I could still get all the items I need to carry on playing the way I do I'll be happy.

 

 

 

I would feel sorry for all the merchants who rely on this to make their money though, as I feel sorry for all the stakers out there even though I am not a staker myself.

 

 

 

oober

I'd hate it so much O.o how could i lend somebody something when they dont have the cash to buy it? What makes rs good is the ability to help one another

I hope they don't get rid of it completely. It'll be a pain in the backside if you're trying to do a quest or something with a friend, and they need a coal or pair of gloves or something. The only way to trade this over is to drop-trade it - but that's against the rules.

 

 

 

I have to say, I'm quite looking forward to the Grand Exchange though :D

 

 

 

Plugpoint92 :

The amount of code involved in trading in general (let alone the code that Jagex uses to detect scams and RWTs) is huge, there's no way they'd delete what would have to be at last 1 years worth of man-hours work.

 

 

 

And if I see one more thread about trading disappearing from RS I'm not going to come back to tip.it for a very long time. I thought this was supposed to be a decent forum, not one populated by scare mongers.

Thats the most ridiculus thing i've ever read :-#

 

 

 

Ha, well if someone had made a thread a week before the tournament update saying Jagex was going to remove staking in the manner that they did they would have been laughed at.

 

 

 

In light of that new "update" I wouldn't put it past them. It does seem like they're putting in a lot of alternatives to the current trade system... but I can assure you, if they do indeed remove it, monster hunters will NOT be satisfied. If someone gets a hilt drop and can't share it... what are they supposed to do? Wait until they all get hilts? :roll:

woot more tread about the same thing :D

 

 

 

heck i even have tread about it :lol: (mines was the first of them all to be about JAGEX removing the drop and trade option )

 

 

 

actually mine was... by a day. :shame: :lol:

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=718195

It would kill me and it would kill Rune companies.

Like many other people say about jagex new updates like duel arena and the assist system, i do think that jagex is tryin to abolish the trade system,and staking we known and used for so long, from posts i seen on rs fourm's in the rants secction, i seen alot of players will stop playing rs. nearly half of

 

players on fourms will not continue to play. But even if jagex does pass

 

the update and abolish the regular trade system, i would still play..

 

maybe... \