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General Category => Frag Fest => General Discussion => Topic started by: IceZ on November 26, 2007, 07:19:02 PM

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: IceZ on November 26, 2007, 07:19:02 PM

Merching is still here, kinda....

I don't really like it


but I like the fact I can just leave crap there.. to sell

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: JB Lee on November 26, 2007, 07:29:53 PM

Its going to increase the amount of level 3's that you see fishing sharks and cutting yews. Now they can spend full time cutting and fishing without having to sit in a bank trying to sell the stuff.

Just another way Jagex fails to see that all they are doing is closing doors for real world trading by opening up new ones...

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: 99 Mage FTW. on November 26, 2007, 08:19:04 PM

100% agreed jblee.

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: Pureblood on November 26, 2007, 09:09:58 PM

wow you are exactly right

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: IceZ on November 26, 2007, 09:38:17 PM

Did you go to the University of RS Wisdom?  That summed up all those thoughts in my head, in 2 lines.

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: kirk hammett on November 26, 2007, 10:13:32 PM

its not THAT bad. I thought all the rares were gonna crash but they didn't. And i like that you can sell stuff without sittin there auto typing for 30 mins /tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' /> so its not bad.



100% right JB

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: JB Lee on November 26, 2007, 10:54:41 PM

My other predictions still stand (read the thread about Jagex Killing RuneScape), the prices for everything will slowly drop (including rares). Introducing a major economical breakthrough such as this "Grand Exchange" after a game has already reached livelihood is just stupid. Games such as WoW or LotRo started out with this feature, and therefor, the in-game economy is based solely around it. All this is going to do is force people to keep lowering and lowering the price, much like the price of mills in the blackmarket has slowly descended.

I remember, not long ago, the price of 1mil was $7-$8 (and even higher before that), but since a few people decided to sell for $5 at one point just to get rid of them fast, other people were forced to lower their prices to compete. Then, others decided to lower theirs even further to compete, and then other even lower. That is how any economical competition will end, with desecrated price averages.

The same thing will happen in RuneScape now, people will see an item listed for a certain price, and they will list it for even lower. Until they are at the bottom of the Jagex-allocated price range of that particular item. Jagex will have no choice but to lower the price range, thereby allowing the price to drop even more. This would happen even without the grand exchange update anyway, but adding this update, especially in the middle (or end the way they are pushing things) of a game's lifetime is just going to exponentially increase the speed of things.

In the end, Jagex HAS successfully taken over control of the RuneScape economy in the sense that they decide if and when they raise or lower an item's allocated price range. However, this is going to cause nothing but trouble in the long run. I can guarantee that Jagex will try to lower the prices of rares (they regret ever making the things) as far as they can. But rares are the one thing that will always continue to rise, regardless of the economy. The fact that they are constantly being taken out of the game (deaths, alching, other mishaps) just defies the laws of economics. But believe me when I say, there will be problems now that Jagex has taken over control of the economy. Nothing but bad can come from that.

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: kirk hammett on November 26, 2007, 11:12:54 PM

JB how long did it take you to think of that?  Nice speach tho i give you a 8.5 keep it up

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: r1ch dude12 on November 27, 2007, 01:16:12 AM

hmm i like the idea of selling stuff while doing other things and i never really merchanted so i think its a pretty good update

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: Yded on November 27, 2007, 04:46:24 AM

merching's even easier now.
jagex is pretty dumb.

Title: Grand exchange
Post by: GOD OF WAR on November 27, 2007, 05:53:51 PM

i kinda like it.... i think it shoulda been more like the Auction house in WoW though.... and thanks for the facts JB..... i would have never thought of that :S (and no i am not being sarcastic) ^____^