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So for my first “Runescape Truth” post I thought I’d do something that effects just about everyone in the Runescape game, trading and PKing. When I started playing Runescape PKing was huge, people would stand outside of the wildy border in worlds 1 and 2 and kill each other, than you’d have REAL pkers deep in the wildy attacking the weak and defenseless. You killed someone, you got their stuff, and that was a great inspiration, people would wear good stuff to PK in, get killed, it helped the Runescape economy, people lost money, people gained money. Now skip ahead a few years, PKing was removed, why? To prevent RWT, the same reason trading unlimited values was removed. This was a HUGE upset to the Runescape community, players quit, and I imagine JaGeX lost a mass of subscribers, including many of my friends.

Now JaGeX did do its best to solve the whole removal of the wildy thing by adding revenants to the wilderness, and adding bounty hunter, and PKing worlds, stuff like that, but is it really a replacement for the wildy? NO! Its not real pking, you dont get the things the players drop, they are randomly generated items, it ruins the fun of PKing, the rush you get from knowing you may lose your full dragon, but have the chance to get that fury the other player is wearing, all that is GONE.

Now how could this have been fixed? How about a radar type thing that flashes if someone is going into the wildy with items worth over a mil? People could find them and kill them, which would be a huge risk for anyone buying items from websites.

Now I’d like to talk about trading, JaGeX removed trading, why? Again because of real world trading, now this was a EASY solution. Simply only allow trading of max value to players who have had the person they are trading added for a long time…months..years. Real world traders aren’t going to wait MONTHS just to buy a few mil.

Now why would JaGeX do this, why would they remove a HUGE part of the game that people loved, why would they risk losing thousands of players? The rumor was (or maybe it was confirmed, I dont know), that JaGeX was receiving lawsuits as players were stealing credit cards and buying gold and other items, the credit card companies were called and JaGeX was stuck with the bill. Now you cant blame them for doing something drastic to save their game….but that is no excuse to punish the good players, they could have just as easily come up with a solution like mine above.

But I’m interested in your opinions, what do you think of the removal of PKing and trading, do you think JaGeX was right for doing it, how could they have solved the problem better? Have you gotten over it?

The next Runescape Truth post will be about JaGeX’s favoritism to players, including their staff aloud to break their own rules, rules which we would be muted or banned for, including the racist NPC that was accidentally left in years ago. Remember, all facts stated here are the believes of the author, not the site as a whole.

Tags: JaGeX, PKing, Real World Trading, Runescape, Trading