What if...Official Purchasable Content/Resources

[Latinoking]

I agree fully; this is the reason why Jagex is losing to their competition!

 

 

 

Other games allow you to buy stuff but alas Jagex doesn't :-k

 

 

 

They want it to be a fair game but maybe their overdoing it.

 

 

 

If they allowed this I would spent like $500US+ to buy cool stuff like Party Hats, Masks, or even able to buy MORE BANK SPACE!!!!

[Deiophobus]

I would probably quit if this happened. It would create a new class of players, probably being very arrogant about their wealth.

 

 

 

I mean, jagex can certainly do strange things sometimes, but I don't think they'd go as far as to dis regard the people who have been playing for years, working hard to amass their skills and wealth...or would they? :-s

[Latinoking]

I would probably quit if this happened. It would create a new class of players, probably being very arrogant about their wealth.

 

 

 

I mean, jagex can certainly do strange things sometimes, but I don't think they'd go as far as to dis regard the people who have been playing for years, working hard to amass their skills and wealth...or would they? :-s

 

 

 

they will because they want money; psst it's their job

[RpgGamer]

that would be very bad if jagez decided to do this because, then all the rich spoiled kids would be rich and spoiled in game as well. meanwhile all us hardworking, not-so-rich people will be left out of extra content.

[mithos23132]

If JAGEX sold gold and items I would quit because some loser could get ahead of me in the game simply because he was willing to buy items and money.

 

 

 

I am a member, but I became one for the quests game play and items. "BUT MITHOS YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE BETTER ITEMS LOL!!!11ONE1"

 

No, I still have to complete the quest, earn the money and train the skill for the things I want. Yes! Members have benifits that F2P doesn't and they can make money better, but that is because F2P is basically a demo. No-one would become a member if F2P was equal!

 

 

 

Anyways, thats not my point. Any member with fancy or expensive things will agree that they didn't fall from the sky just because they became a member.

 

 

 

Selling items would make acomplishments worthless.

 

 

 

"Oh boy I finally rasied enough gp to buy a phat even though some spoiled brat just bought it in 1\1000th the time"

[look_its_rob]

Maybe they should do what maplestory does

 

 

 

they have a cash shop but all the items you can buy are just to show off, like pets and decrative hats ect.

 

 

 

a good way for jagex to make money, yet doesnt really affect the game

[highlanders]

You mean like cash shops?

 

Every games makes a choice; monthly price OR free with cash shop.

 

 

 

A cash shop for Rs would be crap though, the graphics of Rs can't produce any good looking cash item clothes set, and clothes set are like 80% of the income of a cash shop.

[Cha0sx]

Lol, are you serious?

 

 

 

If Jagex did this I bet even Zezima would be on rants forums.....

 

 

 

Pshhht, rich noobs IRL play games that don't require as much effort, at least the spoiled brats that would brag in your face. There might be a few that just buy their way through this game if this happened though, and I don't want hard work

[curmudgeony]

All of this talk about"rich kids" and "earning" your skills is missing the point.

 

 

 

The bulk of this game is little more then repetitive clicking. Mind you, there are some enjoyable bits, but--as I've said--this game is designed to get you playing and keep you playing as long as possible. The skill cape, the whip, and high scores are prime examples of that.

 

 

 

Take the skill cape, it is a status symbol that doesn't really *do* anything except look cool. The bulk of skills provide no additional benefits if you raise them to 99. The whip requres 85 slayer to get, but only 70 attack to weild. If it was such a elite, rare weapon, it should require 85 slayer to wield, but it doesn't. It is designed to make people chase that 85 slayer level to unlock its wealth of those whips. And then there's the high scores. With the exception of combat, what J. Random Scaper's skill are doesn't affect me in the slightest. It just makes people chase levels.

 

 

 

Remember, the longer you play, the more money the company makes.

 

 

 

My hats are off to Zezima and the other fine folks that reach the top, but I am a busy person. I have a job, and a family, and a life outside of the game. I can't spend the hours "needed" by the game to click some pixels nineteen thousand times to get the skill I need to do XYZ.

 

 

 

If there was a legal way to pay a ten spot here or there to get some skills up, I would take it. I suspect many other people might take the same option. Frankly this game could use some older players, and buyable content would be the thing to bring them.

[Cha0sx]

 

 

 

My hats are off to Zezima and the other fine folks that reach the top, but I am a busy person. I have a job, and a family, and a life outside of the game. I can't spend the hours "needed" by the game to click some pixels nineteen thousand times to get the skill I need to do XYZ.

 

 

 

If there was a legal way to pay a ten spot here or there to get some skills up, I would take it. I suspect many other people might take the same option. Frankly this game could use some older players, and buyable content would be the thing to bring them.

 

 

 

If you don't have enough time and dedication to get the levels, then you don't deserve them. It's how this game was made and how most want it to stay. Besides, if you could buy content, I doubt you would stay in the game long because you don't seem like a dedicated player, just a casual one.

 

 

 

If you like casual games that take a few months to max and have some fun, go play WoW, mmkay? Or play a shooting game that just takes some practice on Xbox Live.

[Mr_Cheese]

this would be ok as long as the items dont help u get ur stats up if u no wat i meen

 

 

 

they would also be non-tradeable and u could only weild em

 

 

 

if they did lvl ups and expensive armor for rl cash then how would people know that u really worked for ur stuff

[curmudgeony]

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't have enough time and dedication to get the levels, than you don't deserve them.

 

 

 

So what you're saying is any time saving methods used by someone outside of normal gameplay invalidate the RuneScape experience?

[Arambul]

They wouldn't because if you look at their attitude now, you can see they never will. They take so many steps to make sure people don't have unfair advantages, whether it be banning people for buying RS money, or using bots.

[Cha0sx]

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't have enough time and dedication to get the levels, than you don't deserve them.

 

 

 

So what you're saying is any time saving methods used by someone outside of normal gameplay invalidate the RuneScape experience?

 

 

 

Yes, that's perfectly true IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, and probably many others too.

[curmudgeony]

 

 

So what you're saying is any time saving methods used by someone outside of normal gameplay invalidate the RuneScape experience?

 

 

 

Yes, that's perfectly true IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, and probably many others too.

 

 

 

So if that's your opinion, then you have to stop using tip.it or any other website. Goodbye price checks. Goodbye forums. Goodbye skill calculators. And most of all, goodbye quest walkthroughs.

 

 

 

If you want to play the game just as it is, you have to give up everything outside of the magic little address of runescape.com. If you can't do that, you're not a dedicated player, just a casual one, mmkay?

[Peronix]

I agree with swampjedi, whatever it might be, it needs to be STRICTLY non-tradeable, and nothing that would effect your status ingame (like exp). If they sold gp for RL money it would only cause gps to hyperinflate, and if they sold xp, I guarantee you that some rich kid would get their daddy to buy them onto the top 21 overall.

[Alex_Ewan_1]

No way should items be pruchasable woth real money. it goes against what jagex believes.Do u want a 15yr old spending his allowance on logs or vercas armour?

 

 

 

We have to be realsitic here i'm afraid.

[Aquiel]

Both a monthly fee and a cash shop is a little extreme, but some mmos do it. Jagex would definitively make some money if they were to introduce a cash shop, but it would make a lot of people angry, including me. I pay for members, I don't want to pay yet again, just to be able to access new content, something which is supposed to be included in my membership. Especially not for a primitive game like Runescape. If Runescape had high graphical content which would account for the a higher cost, then I wouldn't mind, but it doesn't. Runescape is a very cheap game to run compared to other mmorpgs, they have absolutely no excuse to make us pay for new content.

[reaper88888]

No. As much as I'd like it, then it would become richest irl = richest ingame. Not cool. And the economy would be in the crapper, too. Maybe for certain new nontradeables, but thats it...

[DebatE]

CONS-

 

 

 

-Inflation

 

-Prejudice

 

-an un-equal opportunity for all players (egalitarian ftw? :thumbsup: )

 

 

 

PROS-

 

 

 

-lost cash do to hacking, instead of working for years again chould gain back cash easliy.

 

 

 

At the moment i belive runescape is pretty much a socialism based commuinty and at the moment it's working pretty well. With the introduction of real life buying items it whould upset the econamy and hurt runescape's overall look. The distiction of poor and rich whould grow larger with not much middle class leading to a bias for all players. Also of course as you know jagex favors members to free to play players, how do you belive jagex will react to some who has bought 100m to someone that has bought nothing?

[NoMoreDead]

There is no way they would do it. They said themselves that they do not want social status to determine one's status ingame

 

 

 

They also said "13 and over", but thats not stopping them from babying everyone under 13.

 

 

 

They could do it. The day they do is the day I and about 10,000+ other people quit.

[Hexbot]

ME WANNA SCYTHEY!

 

 

 

 

 

But non tradeable holiday items = awesome :D

[Shazarabbit]

It would defeat the purpose of playing. I would quit because everyone with money to spend would have better items or the same as me, without working for it. With stats you no longer get the satisfaction of leveling it/ knowing that you could also buy it.

 

 

 

I wouldn't quit, but i would hate to think that someones economical status outside of the game would benefit them in the game. I like the fact that in runescape you all come together and play from the same point. It gives us all a common ground.