August 22, 200817 yr http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7575902.stm Just happened upon this article in my travels around teh interwebs. Although there really isn't any of this thats new to those of us that are in the MMO community, it's nice to see the issue getting some wider coverage. Now, slightly off topic, WTH is that guy doing in FULL torag at Banos??? I can see using top/bottom for soloing, but why full with hammers??? #-o Also, nice to see the RS pic at the top of the article, above the WOW one. =D> \
August 22, 200817 yr Wow that's guy's crazy lol, full torags and no protect pray on. :wall: Anyways, on topic: I never knew there were that many people involved in Gold Farming! :shock: I know not all of them are on Runescape but seeing how large RS must be, there may have been up to 100,000 people involved with gold farming on RS or maybe even more! Great article and good find lol. : EDIT: I post this 11 minutes later and it's the first post. :| Thanks to Quarra for the awesome sig!Xbox360 Gamertag = Tintin113
August 22, 200817 yr My mate was talking about sellin' his Eve Online character just the other day :o [-- DYNAMIC SIGNATURES FOR RUNESCAPE 3 & OLDSCHOOL 2007 RUNESCAPE --]
August 22, 200817 yr Nice find, and I agree with the last quote: "You could get rid of it, but you would get rid of one of the most fundamental parts of player-to-player interaction." Where people can interact in this way, RWTing is inevitable. ~ W ~
August 22, 200817 yr Now, slightly off topic, WTH is that guy doing in FULL torag at Banos??? I can see using top/bottom for soloing, but why full with hammers??? #-o Considering that's all he is wearing hes not going to lose anything with pro item, anyway its a jagex image asset aand was probably done by a mod. Thanks Gradeskip93 for my awesome sig!
August 22, 200817 yr My dad just read this, ran upstairs and asked me how much I could sell my lot for..
August 22, 200817 yr My dad just read this, ran upstairs and asked me how much I could sell my lot for.. hahahaha, i'd be like "dad [bleep] off, i ain't selling anything!" nice find 'n read =] also added to wikipedia "gold-farming" page :thumbsup: Lode's Steel Smithing Guide! With Pictures *3.5K+ VIEWS*The Guide to DUO maging @ Dk's - HD pics
August 22, 200817 yr The pic is JAGeX provided. You can see that he has no cape/gloves/boots/brains either. Winged Fish on a RWT complaint- There's four complaints on the whole site, one from a mother who was convinced by her son that the RWTers she was buying him items from were from Jagex (and then got scammed and is taking it out on Jagex), two people complaining about having their accounts taken away, and one ranting on the trade restrictions and wilderness removal. Now just change the background color and page layout, and you have the RSoF
August 22, 200817 yr Games makers had tried to limit the amount of trade in game gold and gear, few had reported significant success, said Mr Davis. "You could get rid of it," he said, "but you would get rid of one of the most fundamental parts of player-to-player interaction." Wow, Andrew Gower's ears must be burning.
August 22, 200817 yr I saw something like this in a paper a while ago, but its always good for there to some attention put on it i guess, appears to be a growing problem outside of RS aswell, maybe we'll see some other MMO games follow jagexs suite soon? Some of the figures seem pretty crazy but i guess were theres demand theres supply, gotta feel bad for some kid in china making a next to nothing though when he has to play all day, Theres a fine line between not listening and not caring,I like to think I walk this line every day. Pinning blame on Jagex is like trying to put pants on an old man. You both know he needs them, but he'll just keep dancing around, avoiding them at all costs.
August 23, 200817 yr Wow media attention I'm suprised. But well we've heard it all but 400,000? wtf alot of no lifing gold farmers. Click for My Blog670th to 99 Smithing July 21st, 07 |743rd to 99 Mining November 29th, 07 | 649th to 99 Runecrafting May 18th, 08 | 29,050th to 99 Defence October 20th, 08 | 20,700th to 99 Magic November 8, 08 | 47,938th to 99 Attack December 19, 08 | 37,829th to 99 Hitpoints December 24, 08 | 68,604th to 99 Strength February 4, 09 | 27,983rd to 99 Range February 9, 09 | 9,725th to 99 Prayer June 8, 09 | 6,620th to 99 Slayer December, 12 09 | 4,075th to 99 Summoning December, 28 09 | 3,551th to 99 Herblore February 24, 10 | 3,192th to 99 Dungeoneering November 11, 10 | 146,600th to 99 Cooking December 29th, 10 | 11,333rd to 99 Construction June 7th, 11 | 16,648th to 99 Farming August 1st, 11 | 19,993th to 99 Crafting August 2nd, 11 | 89,739th to 99 Woodcutting Janurary 1st, 12 | 55,424th to 99 Fishing May 9th, 12| 60,648th to 99 Firemaking May 12th, 12 | 16666th to 99 Agility May 17th, 2012 | 24476th to 99 Hunter June 1st, 2012 | 57,881st to 99 Fletching June 1st, 2012 | All 99s June 1st, 2012 | 3183th to 120 Dungeoneering July 24th, 2012 | 2341st to 2496 Total level July 24th, 2012 | Completionist Cape July 24th, 2012
August 23, 200817 yr 400k/6B people in this world producing FAKE/VIRTUAL GOLD to sell for real money, this is obviously a HUGE business and should not be taken as a joke. And these people earning money at 150 some bucks a month? That's terrible! I juse appreciated the December 10th 2007 updates a bit more. Off topic: I agree it put a rather large smile on my face to see a pic of Runescape before WoW, maybe that's because Runescape has actually cracked down and reduced drastically on RWT than WoW.
August 23, 200817 yr 400,000 people and a 500 million dollar market is a lot more than I expected really. I thought it would involove a lot less people because I asumed most of the gold farmming was done by macros. As for the wierd picture, it's from a collection of pictures that are avaible to the media. Found here. Its either a Jagex moderator or it was generated and never actually happened. Off topic: The bounty hunter guide used to show a guy in full bandos with a dragon longsword killing someone in full dragon. Does it really matter whether I was right? #-oThis is Tipit. There is nothing more important than being right. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
August 23, 200817 yr Ahh... EVE apparently lacks those problems. And I've been debating getting it or WoW... hmm :-k OH S***! He/she/it is back!
August 23, 200817 yr Ahh... EVE apparently lacks those problems. And I've been debating getting it or WoW... hmm :-k Tabula Rasa lacks gold farmers 100%.
August 23, 200817 yr The end quote is a good one for RuneScape, but you've got to remember the Grand Exchange. It gives people a way to buy and sell on a margin. It doesn't completely deaden the blow, but it helps. What they're talking about the article is what would have happened if there was no GE and trading happened on the streets in a 30k margin...well, junk is already worth its value in gold, but it could be a lot worse. 2496 Completionist
August 23, 200817 yr Ahh... EVE apparently lacks those problems. And I've been debating getting it or WoW... hmm :-k Tabula Rasa lacks gold farmers 100%. I once saw a bunch oh them in Good will. :lol: But seriously $150 per/month?
August 23, 200817 yr 400k people sitting infront of the computer all day long :shock: heck,i cant even manage 8 hours! 99 Firemaking 30-5-2010 | 99 Fletching 13-7-2014 TET-AU member:6-10-2010 - 21-10-2011
August 23, 200817 yr Author My favorite quote from the article: Gold-farming was proving so lucrative that criminal gangs were cashing in on it, said Mr Davis. These pay for their accounts with stolen credit cards, take money from players and do not hand over gold or goods in return and fill chat channels with adverts for websites hawking game gold. This ought to (at least somewhat) prove to those who flame(d) the December updates that Jagex actually implemented them for the reasons they gave, and not because they hate pures.......Yes I'm looking at you Eatrunearrow :lol:
August 23, 200817 yr Wow that's guy's crazy lol, full torags and no protect pray on. :wall: I don't know if this is true, but dosen't game producers have some players test the new features/game before they release it? In other words: that "Torag" could be a player testing Bandos for bugs or something that can lead to advantage to players.. + It also could be a Player that has his stats boosted up to Attack, Strength, Defence and HP level to 1000.. (Just random number)
August 24, 200817 yr i went to a site to try to sell my account when i read this (only to see how much it would worth for them) my account items: roughly about 2mill gp (if i sold all the items), but that is what i told them 92 str 57 att 71 def 85 range 86 hp 71 mage barly any other skills offered me 43 dollars or 50 for instore credit i was like pretty amaze how much i would get for that account. makes me think how much my main would have gotten an offer for
August 24, 200817 yr i went to a site to try to sell my account when i read this (only to see how much it would worth for them) my account items: roughly about 2mill gp (if i sold all the items), but that is what i told them 92 str 57 att 71 def 85 range 86 hp 71 mage barly any other skills offered me 43 dollars or 50 for instore credit i was like pretty amaze how much i would get for that account. makes me think how much my main would have gotten an offer for Btw the account is worth about 60-120$. ;) Those gold selling sites just rip people off and re-sell the account. (buy for 43$, sell for 430$) My goals: [b]5M coins:[/b] 4350K+ coins 200k+ items - 2 dec 5M coins - 16 dec I [b]have gotten[/b] my 5M by christmas. -bah this is only here for historical purposes now, I got 20m+ already "fail,well atleast the title,i wont read it with that colours""If you hadn't posted in rainbow I would actually give this a proper read""Colours suck."*I remove colours*"Where did all the colors go!? This is now 40% more likely to be tl;dr'd due to the lack of colors."
August 24, 200817 yr My dad just read this, ran upstairs and asked me how much I could sell my lot for.. hahahaha, i'd be like "dad [bleep] off, i ain't selling anything!" nice find 'n read =] also added to wikipedia "gold-farming" page :thumbsup: I'd be like "around £30 but i need to use your paypal".
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