I gave OSRS another opportunity, but Grand Exchange destroyed RuneScape for me personally. Dont get me wrong, I despise spending hours trying to RS gold sell things, but it makes every single item in RuneScape so accessible. Smiting, which was among the hardest RuneScape skills to level up, its now the simplest (since its actually profitable to purchase bars and sell the merchandise ). Every thing can be easily converted to gold and vice versa, their value is put into stone. Every town is a ghost town because everybody is in GE.I dont think that GE was a mistake (after all the vast majority of the gamers wanted it), however RuneScape dropped most of its allure after it to me.
The Grand Exchange does not work like a auction home because Jagex low-key intended the player trading system to be replaced by it. A history lesson for anybody who did not play with Runescape back. On December 10th 2007, Jagex published an upgrade that among other things removed the ability to PK from the Wilderness. On precisely the same day they further declared the ability to make unbalanced trades or stake over 3000gp worth of things every 15 mins could be taken out on 2nd January 2008. The participant base proved understandably up in arms with widespread in-game riots, many gamers quitting and even the forums crashing and moving into lockdown, with any future articles whining about the update being instantly locked and the consumers prohibited by electricity tripping FMods and JMods.
Jagex"warranted" this update by claiming that Korean and Chinese gold farms employing bots were threatening the existence of RuneScape because of their use of stolen credit cards to buy memberships. Their claim was that credit card fraud cost them huge amounts of money in bank refund charges and the banks were threatening to revoke their capacity to take subscription obligations because of supposedly uncontrolled use of stolen credit cards to buy in-game subscriptions.
This is even though:RuneScape being a partially liberated to play game which had a specially major botting pandemic on F2P servers. Other MMORPGs having farming pandemics and botting, including World of Warcraft. No publisher being issued a threat, nor changing their game because of a actual or perceived danger of being bankrupted by chargebacks. Additionally, PKing for months and Jagex claimed to have been operating to cheap OSRS gold trading on the replacements. This is a blatant lie. For reasons outlined below.
I gave OSRS another opportunity, but Grand Exchange destroyed RuneScape for me personally. Dont get me wrong, I despise spending hours trying to RS gold sell things, but it makes every single item in RuneScape so accessible. Smiting, which was among the hardest RuneScape skills to level up, its now the simplest (since its actually profitable to purchase bars and sell the merchandise ). Every thing can be easily converted to gold and vice versa, their value is put into stone. Every town is a ghost town because everybody is in GE.I dont think that GE was a mistake (after all the vast majority of the gamers wanted it), however RuneScape dropped most of its allure after it to me.
The Grand Exchange does not work like a auction home because Jagex low-key intended the player trading system to be replaced by it. A history lesson for anybody who did not play with Runescape back. On December 10th 2007, Jagex published an upgrade that among other things removed the ability to PK from the Wilderness. On precisely the same day they further declared the ability to make unbalanced trades or stake over 3000gp worth of things every 15 mins could be taken out on 2nd January 2008. The participant base proved understandably up in arms with widespread in-game riots, many gamers quitting and even the forums crashing and moving into lockdown, with any future articles whining about the update being instantly locked and the consumers prohibited by electricity tripping FMods and JMods.
Jagex"warranted" this update by claiming that Korean and Chinese gold farms employing bots were threatening the existence of RuneScape because of their use of stolen credit cards to buy memberships. Their claim was that credit card fraud cost them huge amounts of money in bank refund charges and the banks were threatening to revoke their capacity to take subscription obligations because of supposedly uncontrolled use of stolen credit cards to buy in-game subscriptions.
This is even though:RuneScape being a partially liberated to play game which had a specially major botting pandemic on F2P servers. Other MMORPGs having farming pandemics and botting, including World of Warcraft. No publisher being issued a threat, nor changing their game because of a actual or perceived danger of being bankrupted by chargebacks. Additionally, PKing for months and Jagex claimed to have been operating to cheap OSRS gold trading on the replacements. This is a blatant lie. For reasons outlined below.