ice_ring Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Instead of all these dumb updates that only weaken the content of the game, why doesn't Jagex just sell gold themselves on the site? I've seen the argument of richer (in real life) players being able to have massive amounts of money therefore making the game unfair, but Jagex should really consider this. The amount of money they would make would be AMAZING. Imagine if just half the players bought gold at an average of about $4 a month (i think it would be substantially higher). That's 500,000 players if the feature was only open to members. That's $2 Million dollars a month in just gold! Jagex would be greatly increasing their monthly earnings without much effort at all. And what would that mean for us players? More updates! I would love to see two updates a week and it would be completely possible because with more money comes more employees. So all in all, Jagex selling gold on the site would quite possibly be the best addition to Runescape since RS2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggiwhplar Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphakoldes Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 They just made all of these game-altering changes, at the cost of many quitting, profits being lost - and the question you bring up is why don't they BECOME real world traders? Are you freaking KIDDING ME? Amazing... -Man, I really do love Runescape, and I'm sure if it was a real person I would of asked it to marry me by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Jagex originally set up the game so real life advantages (such as wealth to buy GP) does not affect gameplay. And they still do. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordanweb Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The latest updates are causing all the noobs to quit, if jagex started selling gp for rl money all of the good players would quit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice_ring Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Jagex could drive them out of business, they just lower prices, because it doesn't cost Jagex anything at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_3ekout Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Jagex could drive them out of business, they just lower prices, because it doesn't cost Jagex anything at all. How do you think the ability to buy 100M for 50 cents would help improve the game? It'd just be a loop where one sells cheaper then the other. A Draconic Guide V1.4, Fimer - Multi-Timer Farming Timer V3.Dragon Boots: 39|Abyssal Whips: 16|Dark Bows: 1| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meili Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 They might be afraid that this would worsen the problem because people would use fake cc's or stolen cc's. Also, it seems they just don't like RWT and feel it would lead to more people quitting or playing less since there is no reason to do skills like mining when you can just buy gp then buy coal... The Runescape Wilderness - Meili's Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastForce Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Jagex could drive them out of business, they just lower prices, because it doesn't cost Jagex anything at all. the price would go so low as to seriously affect the economy Road To Trimmed Completionist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guywho Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 just adapt to the game and eventually everything will stablize its an update so just hold on and let jagex do wat they do and they may fix the update or just take it away or they can make it better sum how Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixfd64 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Jagex originally set up the game so real life advantages (such as wealth to buy GP) does not affect gameplay. And they still do. Sadly, that's not true. For example, with members, you can get level 99 prayer 20 times faster than on the free version, and at only a fraction of the cost. ARENAscape: Baratus [AS] max hit: 166 with Moon Battle Hammer ixfd64 [AS] max hit: 116 with (untitled spell #2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterxman Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 It was explained in their newest Diary that 3rd party sites would still sell the gold for cheaper prices and hence continue to be out of Jagex's control. Even if only Jagex could sell gold, autoers would still appear due to the high demand. Pixel sigs by me.Pixel Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_P_Kid Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The latest updates are causing all the noobs to quit, if jagex started selling gp for rl money all of the good players would quit.Excuse me? Explain how every high level pker in RuneScape is a noob? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets_3ekout Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The latest updates are causing all the noobs to quit, if jagex started selling gp for rl money all of the good players would quit.Excuse me? Explain how every high level pker in RuneScape is a noob? Uh, he never mentioned PKers, neither did he say high levels. Both PKers and non-PKers are quitting, so it could be a reference to both. In any case, levels don't determine noobs, that's "newb". A Draconic Guide V1.4, Fimer - Multi-Timer Farming Timer V3.Dragon Boots: 39|Abyssal Whips: 16|Dark Bows: 1| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no1marine Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I agree, just sell gold. I will buy to support them. Them being JAGEX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fey_Warrior Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Bingo. And the gold farming bots would continue to bot. And if Jagex reduced their prices then gold would simply become very cheap increasing the value of items but making the earning of gold other than by buying it pointless. It would have been simply a tighter but more vicious cycle where it would've be pointless to play if you didn't buy gold. A pity they could not have revamped the Wilderness into one big Bounty Hunting Arena but I guess that'd make targets too hard to find on too many worlds. I'm still not giving up on though. I believe it's time to suggest *new* PvP Areas that maybe only are accessible to skilled PvPers. They'll have to fix bounty hunting first so rankings are the result of individual skill rather than just massive teams of 1 Item PJers. Regards, Fey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayOxide Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Also 'cause they'd have to make that money, not work for it, thus bringing more money into RS, which they do not wont. That's what Constr. is for. :) I dont need a siggy no moar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aure22 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The latest updates are causing all the noobs to quit, if jagex started selling gp for rl money all of the good players would quit. Good point. And many other skills will be rendered useless...what remains is only Wildy and rune and food shops...PK'rs heaven :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabuli Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 If jagex would sell rsgold goldfarmers would just sell it for cheaper prices. Logically that would result in a race to smaller prices, but jagex knows that it would ruin the game if they'd sell 200m rs cash for 1$ so they'd just lose to goldfarmers. Another problem would come up when goldfarmers start to use stolen creditcards to buy massive ammounts of rs cash from jagex. That would probally result in somekind of max ammount of cash you could buy from jagex and goldfarmers would abuse that by selling higher ammounts for less money. It'd be an easy victory for goldfarmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Runescape should be fair to everyone, outside of the 5 dollars a month for membership. People should not have advantage over other players because of irl wealth. Membership is an advantage over f2p, but it needs to exist to make the game run, and 5 dollars is affordable so it is not very selective. Take teh example of a game like Flyff. They got a cash shop, but the game is perfectly in sync with it. When you are level 75+, the monsters drop a lot of valuable things, and it is no longer a good deal to buy cash shop items directly, so instead they buy it with game gp off another player. So there is a cash shop, it's unfair: but atleast after level 75, it is no longer unfair since you get even better money than by using the cash shop, and free - directly from monsters. This is why people on Flyff are pretty happy. For people who don't want to use the cash shop, they don't have to worry because they know after level 75, they're going to be alright. But Runescape is not made like Flyff, it's not fit for a cash shop. A cash shop would be a disaster in so many aspects. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twist of Fate Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 They put so much gold into the economy which is bad, this idea is completley pointless. Check out the band on Facebook! - http://www.facebook.com/bhofficialnjYouTube - http://www.youtube.c...enhingeofficial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Hard Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 The latest updates are causing all the noobs to quit, if jagex started selling gp for rl money all of the good players would quit. Excuse me? :( ... No, I don't believe Jadex could do this. The gold sellers sell gold that was already in the economy. Jadex aren't about to go hiring farmers to collect this gold, the would simply fabricate it. This influx of GP into the economy would cause such inflation that players would be forced to RWT just to keep up. 'Rock Hard' boss pure - 60/60 Attack | 99/99 Range | 1/1 Defence | 44/44 Prayer | 99/99 Strength | 99/99 Mage - level 79 combat EOC ## '07 Server ## "Best Runescape update ever: Removing 6 years of updates." "Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrington Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Two direct quotes from the horse's mouth.... so to speak http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=diary06 Also, the players who do buy gold find it becomes so easy for them to get ahead, they get bored and leave. Mod Hobagoly, Head of RuneScape Content, says, "That's the case with all cheating, whether it's buying gold or cheating your way through a console game - it's fun for a while, but the challenge goes and things quickly get boring." and one solution would have been to allow real-world trading. Why not just let players sell their RuneScape gold and items and take a small cut of the profits ourselves? "We've seen other MMOGs take that route and it works, but only to a limited extent. Some players would sell gold through their own website to avoid paying the developer a cut. Worse than that, the demand for gold was still mostly being met by players using bots and scams, ruining the experience for legitimate players," says Mod Chris81 Sums it up quite nice really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hephaestos8 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Gold farmers would sell for cheaper Jagex could drive them out of business, they just lower prices, because it doesn't cost Jagex anything at all. There wont be any rwt in january so jagex wont have to lower prices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwreeTak Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Two direct quotes from the horse's mouth.... so to speak http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=diary06 Also, the players who do buy gold find it becomes so easy for them to get ahead, they get bored and leave. Mod Hobagoly, Head of RuneScape Content, says, "That's the case with all cheating, whether it's buying gold or cheating your way through a console game - it's fun for a while, but the challenge goes and things quickly get boring." and one solution would have been to allow real-world trading. Why not just let players sell their RuneScape gold and items and take a small cut of the profits ourselves? "We've seen other MMOGs take that route and it works, but only to a limited extent. Some players would sell gold through their own website to avoid paying the developer a cut. Worse than that, the demand for gold was still mostly being met by players using bots and scams, ruining the experience for legitimate players," says Mod Chris81 Sums it up quite nice really. Yes, it does. It ruins the experience for those who don't want to buy gold but prefer to make it the old way, inside the game. Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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