Did Jagex slow down rl item traders?

Well, I went to the home page on Runescape and fopund this.

"We have made some necessary changes to the above-ground staked and friendly duels of the Duel Arena:

There is now a cap to the amount a player can win in the space of 15 minutes in a staked duel, which is set to 3,000 coins. This limit will make it harder for real-world traders to unfairly use the Duel Arena as a covert way of transferring items. Of course, if you want to take part in some high-stakes duelling you now have the duel tournaments instead!
The gp value of any item wagered in a staked duel is defined by the 'player value'. This 'player value' of an item will change according to any market fluctuations once the Grand Exchange has been introduced.
Logging out of a staked duel will mean that you have forfeited the match, and the staked items will go to your opponent.
Stats boosted before entering a duel will reset to their normal value at the start. You can still use potions during the duel, provided they haven't been disallowed. "

Is this going to stop rl item traders momentarily? Or what do you guys think? Discuss etc..

 

It's not going to stop any and I don't know why Jagex thought this would. Real life item traders can continue trading the items for smaller trades or drop trading the items for bigger trades so that Jagex's trade monitors don't detect anything suspicious.

They claimed to have done this update to stop real life traders and if that is their sole purpose I just have to laugh at them because it's not doing anything except causing thousands of players to protest and complain about the new method of staking.

Congratulations Jagex, on managing to fail oh so miserably once again.

 

Just because they cant control it i dont think they should restrict the game..

i mean look at all the big time stakers that are legit

 

Yeah, another half-assed and short-thought out plan, that manages to make 10,000 of their members quit.

 

Yeah, good thing I quit. I only go on once and a while to talk to friends, runescape is pretty lame now.

 

you can still trade etc but its harder to hide the trades now as the old faithful of 'ditch a duel' is gone.
sucks but thats what you get for having and using a loophole that works

 

Well...Its our fault lol! But stil. Its sucks

 

Jagex is making the most foolish decisions, they need to rely on us to pass it down to our siblings, at this rate, hell no.

 

Amen brethren.



Yea, this might slow me down, but I'm still gonna drop trade...

 

Well what if drop trading goes away. The item disappears and no one cant pick it up

 

There is still dying in the wild as far as I'm concerned lol.

 

jakey picked up a good point ^^

dieing in the wilderness.. good enuf 4 me.

lvl 3 it.

Probz best not to say it.. jagex may limit the wilderness lmao. *you can only pk 100k in value*

 

hahaha yeah, anyways apparently jagex never liked the prices of the "rare items" being so high. but it was too late to say no these items are going to be untradeable after you just spent 3years making 200mill for a phat. instead we are gonna get rid of one of the most biggest money making ways in the game and hope prices will go down (this is why i think there making the grand exchange aswell.) jagex likes to control things and they can't control player made prices, so basically i think there idea to stop rl item trading was an excuse to control prices, trying to make rare items go lower and the cost rs gp go higher.

 

Jagex Are Always Going To Make The Wrong Crapy Decisions... Deal With It.

 

worst update jagex has ever made i think

 

jagex dose not care about what people want most tbh

 

Of course a Rl money trader would use a member account to sell money...
I think this is just to stop stuff going down in price much... Or Jagex are telling us to skill much.

 

rofl, all trades ive done were thru wilderness... EVERYTIME rofl...

 

Agreed

I really wouldn't put it past them at this point TBH.

 

Isnt this wrong section to post this?