The War on Real World Trading
About Jagex’s December 9th update.
The War On Real World Trading – Is it worth it?
Since the middle of this year, Jagex has been going down hard on real world traders. They go around banning accounts involved in real world trading, as well as autoers. But they just keep coming. So Jagex decided to stop real world trading for good, with horrible “side effects”…
The December 10th Update: “The Last Straw”
Many people I know call this the “stupidest update ever”. The other updates do not affect me much. I even liked the shop update where I could obtain blood runes etc conveniently, instead of world switching and spam clicking. This one really was stupid, to say the least. Many people are now quitting members or even quitting the game!
What Happened?
Jagex decided to use their “ultimate move” to combat real world traders. How? Let’s check it out.
No “Imbalanced Trades”
Reasoning: When you real world trade, the trade is definitely imbalanced. For example, if you buy 1 million for real world cash, the trade screen would look like this:
A: You are about to give: 1 million.
B: You are about to give: Absolutely nothing.
So Jagex decided to allow trades to go through only if the difference is less than 3k every 15 minutes in January 2008.
Advantages of This Update
- No more item scamming. (it obviously comes from imbalanced trades. Even when you lend a “friend” your item and he/she disappears with it.).
- No more hacking. (Hackers transfer hacked items between accounts.)
Why People Hate It
- No more lending or giving away free items.
Even if I were to give away 28 lobsters to a friend, the trade difference is also more than 3k.
- I think merchanting may be cut off too. Lets say Jagex thinks that whips are 1.2 million. If I try to buy a whip for 1.2 million to sell it for 1.3 million, it is also an imbalanced trade because my buyer is paying 1.3 million for something that is only worth 1.2 million! (this is only an example, the prices here are inaccurate)
When you drop an item, if it is less than 3k, it will appear. If not, others cannot see it.
Reasoning: real world traders will try to drop the money/items to transfer between players.
Of course, drop parties are prevented. You have the party room to do it. However, party room = no privacy. For this reason, some people may prefer to have drop parties at their POH.
Also, if siblings play Runescape and they only have 1 computer and they wish to transfer items between their accounts, there is no way to do that. You can’t drop trade, you can’t ask your friends to transfer it for you because of #1.
When you die (even in the wilderness), gravestones appear. It will remain for 1 hour for you to retrieve your items.
Reasoning: Real world traders will attempt to kill each other in the wilderness to collect the items.
The only advantages I can see from this update is: You can now safely runecraft in the Abyss. Ok, ok! My runecrafting has only like 4k exp to level 74! Hmm … how much do I need to runecraft to 99 magic? 98k nature runes? (Oops. Sorry for overreacting.)
And then, if you die, you do not need to lose items. My friend dared to walk in the wilderness with his godsword!
People are ranting about this update. PKing is removed. The other time when I was at Edgeville bank and Clan Wars arena, I see people shouting, “We want PKing back!”, “PKing or else we quit Runescape!” Sad. First it was staking. Now PKing?!
Conclusion
It is really irritating to see that when the minority cheat, the majority is affected. The majority just want to play the game! They want to stake, PK, earn money and give/lend items to their friends. I hope that Jagex is not so blinded by the war against real world trading to see this, and that many features of the game are restored.
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great article man. I think that the new updates might ruin runescape. I seen the difference these days. The worlds have less people than they used to do before the updates. End of runescape is near!
hey, what’s your rs username? Can I add you? I agree, rs is ruined… first duel, now wildy and trading.
yea, I reckon that Jagex is overreacting …
the real world traders are the minority, yet everyone has to suffer because of them.
i hear that Jagex has now decided to change the trading system (again!)to raise the 3k trading limit for players with more quest points… obviously, they aren’t depending on real world traders to do heaps of quests just so that they don’t get kicked out of business.
dude i agree its so stupid we need to make a petition to make were we can have pking and lending also my account name is mrmckiller5 enyone can add me
jagex needs to just keep banning ip adresses. they need to stop the trading rules of 3k and crap. surely a pker in the wild will kill the rwters.
hehe … 3rd article of urs im seeing ,its nice explains alot to me …. atleast ppl wont call me noob now if they ask questions about these things i know not of …
thx man !
wow great article i coundnt agree more… they took out my favorite thing in the game.
Hi, I can’t believe how stupid jagex is, and how blind they are, pking is how i made my money, and it’s how many people joined the game. I think Jagex should wise up and see that they’re losing loyal players who enjoyed runescape for what it was. It’s the problem nowdays: everything starts of great and then everything goes sour…it’s like leaving milk out in the sun for too long =(
i am sorry for most to suffer due to the new updates, however we have some intresting news most may want to know.Frst wilderness is coming back … as well as that 3k trading rule may be off.. THERE is a low cahnce for the 3k rule but for wilderness .. ITS BACK ..
your sincerely,
jagex Mod Mark.K
updates suck
yeeah i agree jagex is always thinking at those members in rs the good updates the additional quests drop trading all of u are right the tradde wealth y only 3k its our money y do they care maybe som1 no more PK wtf! only bounty thats the way you can get things from players u cannnot run only mages is number 1 ranked there stupid jagex not thinking always thinking about money not about others wut kind of updates are those~
This article is as stupid as someone ranting about a president raising taxes to reduce the crime rate in their by 75%.
YOU don’t care about the real-world traders, all YOU care about is your PKing, but there are some of us who DO hate those bald-headed abombinations known as bots flooding every single f2p world, and even inhabiting p2p world, getting 99 fishing. Some of us do hate people taking daddy’s credit card, buying a billion gold with it, and running around showing off their christmas crackers to “us noobs”.
For some of us who actually care about the quality of the game, those updates were the best thing to ever happen to Runescape. The people who actually cared about botting, cheating, hacking, and illegal activities.
Good news for you though: you won. Jagex couldn’t deal with all you whining, spoiled brats, so they’ve brought player killing back and with it, many, many techniques to allow real world trading. Congratulations. The RWTers have won, and you can expect bots to come back full-force, and plenty of people walking around in godswords and third age armor because mommy left her purse lying around.