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New paladin outfit + katana:

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Can re-colour the area I have golden.

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Requires giving up the loyalty rate to do this.

 

It's worth stating that the above is incorrect. Just as with redeeming a gift card, this is considered a one-time event and not a recurring agreement. So if you're currently grandfathered into the older/cheaper membership rate, you will automatically resume paying that monthly rate once the year of membership credit is used up. Of course, they may make other changes by then or offer more similar packages; some have even speculated that Runescape may end up going free to play supported entirely by microtransactions.

 

But if we assume the status quo will be maintained and you currently have the old rate, then you're paying $15 for 2,000 runecoins (regularly ~$40), 365 spins (regularly ~$75), a bunch of old decorative items from the gift cards, and the new decorative paladin outfit. Personally I wasn't planning to shell out ~$25 for one of these new pets, but using half of the runecoins from this new package seems like a more palatable deal.

 

One thing that confuses me about this new paladin outfit is that I had thought they were soon going to release a paladin outfit related to Sir Owen. Maybe the quests involving him have been delayed, or were always scheduled for further away than we had thought.

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Requires giving up the loyalty rate to do this.

 

It's worth stating that the above is incorrect. Just as with redeeming a gift card, this is considered a one-time event and not a recurring agreement. So if you're currently grandfathered into the older/cheaper membership rate, you will automatically resume paying that monthly rate once the year of membership credit is used up.

 

It's completely correct -- taking that offer will, for a 12 month period, lose you that low cost per month. You will have it available to you after a year...assuming that mid way through the 12 month period they don't remove that ability altogether if you don't have it as your active subscription...but you're paying more, aka losing the loyalty rate, in lieu of the "premium membership."

 

Thought that was pretty obvious what I meant but I guess not.

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Grrr i'm on holiday till january no free cash. Is it only available for credit card or can you use gamecards?

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I think I'll take a miss on this. I'm happy enough with my twice grandfathered membership rate, and since I don't play as much as I used to, I'm happy to just keep shelling out the $60 a year and leaving it at that.

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I wish their marketing team was more adept at timing this with a front-page news-post and a forum thread. People easily saw the different subscription tiers on the Subscription Page, as well as in the in-game Chat Box, before a forum thread or post could clarify how long the plans would last (i.e. is it just a Holiday special?), why they are calling it a "Premier Club", and so forth.

 

What bothers me though is that, especially after reading through this thread, some of these deals are excellent, if not solid - even the Bronze tier one, considering that an outfit on SGS can sell for 260-1K+ RuneCoin, is good. The RuneScape community has always been very reactionary and this easily could have been much better timed. It would be awful if good membership deals were dragged into a microtransaction debate before they are even properly "launched." I mean, earlier today Mod Mark was on Reddit doing an AMA; their CM team has never been stronger (they're on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube - I wouldn't be surprised if they popped up on Pinterest quicker than you can say "Penguin").

 

 

At the very least, it'll only be half a day before we see these announcements (I hope).

 

(An aside: Isn't it unbelievable that <12 hours, [insert social media spiel], is enough time to generate a marketing snafu? I remember when the Official Forums had an entire month to properly pickle a BTS, now we sort of pre-empt even the announcements. :P)

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I'm confused at what was said before. If I buy the 12 month subscription, what will I pay after the 12 months are over? The same rate as right now?

 

Yep. Since it's a one-time payment once the time you paid for (i.e. the 12 month subscription) lapses, they will resume charging you your usual $5.00 per month rate.

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The only thing I am missing now is the recolor of PoP armors, specifically Tetsu armor. Give me a Red/Gold/Black color scheme with a Katana, and I'll die a happier man.

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Pardon my negativity, but this smells of a desperation move from a failing company. At least, that's my opinion on the matter. :(

 

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I don't buy subscriptions in a big package because I'm often not sure I'll continue playing for a month. But, if someone is certain they'll play for a year, they should definitely go for it.

 

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must..get...gold...membership. Any idea how much that will cost in £s? hate when Jagex use $ in valuations.

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I'm pretty sure that buying the package won't destroy a previous loyalty rate subscription since the way it is set up, it would still be active, but it won't actually charge you anything until your days run out again.

 

Also, that paladin outfit explains a lot, I thought at some point they had remodeled 3rd age armor and didn't say anything about it lol

 

being able to pick up all of the previous bonuses without having to buy the cumulative days for all of them is pretty good though, even if only a handful are actually worth using

 

ofc the katana would have been much more fun as a reskin

 

(if you were able to use the flaming skull with the captain outfits it would have made a great lechuck)

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must..get...gold...membership. Any idea how much that will cost in £s? hate when Jagex use $ in valuations.

 

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Just logged into membership part of website yeah, £44.95. definately buying after christmas, will cost me little more than buying membership monthly at £3.50, but can't miss the perks.

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Oh Man, the 1y bundle is great Value, specially since I pay the new cost of Membership. I'll totally buy it after i pay my tuitions

 

 

Pardon my negativity, but this smells of a desperation move from a failing company. At least, that's my opinion on the matter. :(

 

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I don't have a problem with it, and that title is a little bit misleading. This are just packages that include Runescape membership, there's nothing about the membership system itself that is changed by this.

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To be honest I'm not bothered by this at all, it's no different than the promotional crap for the gift cards. But hey! They brought back year-long memberships! *dance*

You can subscribe with these packages with a credit card. Unless you're talking about the fact that credit card subscribers were screwed out on the items previously in which case ignore this.

 

Requires giving up the loyalty rate to do this. Whether its worth it is up for debate. (in regards to year-long purchases)

 

You're basically paying $15 (the difference between the loyalty rate and the month-rate with the 12month package) for 2k runecoins and a chance to shake Mod Mark's hand. Yeah you get one extra spin per day, not really worth it

 

No it doesn't, you only lose your loyalty rate if your memberships lapses. As long as you buy the 12 month package while you have membership you'll be fine.

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Question, the "Decorative Katana" is the same as the "Ornate Katana", correct?

 

The gold one is tempting as it's a pretty decent offer, but I could get away with the bronze one as I have all the bonus items the gold offers.

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Question, the "Decorative Katana" is the same as the "Ornate Katana", correct?

 

The gold one is tempting as it's a pretty decent offer, but I could get away with the bronze one as I have all the bonus items the gold offers.

 

From what I've seen in terms of picture etc the Decorative Katana IS the Ornate Katana; I think whoever posted about that just got wrong name or something. Especially as Jagex wiki does still only list 3 katanas - Decorative, Golden and Auspicious which are game card, amazon promo and sof respectively.

The gold package is pretty sweet of all the 'vanity items' all that is missed is Golden Katana from the Amazon US wallet game buy thing, the Ice Mask from last years 'buy 2 for 1 membership now and get this mask free' thing and the Carnival Headdress given out free whenever that event was.

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No it doesn't, you only lose your loyalty rate if your memberships lapses. As long as you buy the 12 month package while you have membership you'll be fine.

 

And for those 12 months, you're paying over the loyalty rate -- thus losing the rate to take this offer.

 

Why is that so hard to understand @_@

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No it doesn't, you only lose your loyalty rate if your memberships lapses. As long as you buy the 12 month package while you have membership you'll be fine.

 

And for those 12 months, you're paying over the loyalty rate -- thus losing the rate to take this offer.

 

Why is that so hard to understand @_@

 

I think because your word choice is poor.

As the grandfathered rates are unobtainable if you lose them people read losing the rate as meaning you cannot have it again.

 

So given the context to say you lose the loyalty rate is kinda wrong as you will retain it in the long term; though of course your point is valid that for the period of 12 months in which you are using this package you have paid more than the usual loyalty rate.

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Seems the packages are not available on Ideal (yet) :(.

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Seems like a pretty good deal even for those of us still paying £3.20/$5 a month.

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