Jagex's Free Trade Competition

[Zero_Rush]

Tuesday 1st February 2011 is already being hailed as an historic day in RuneScape. The return of free trade and the Wilderness has had a massively positive effect on the game and shown just how much you are enjoy having these features back in RuneScape.

In the three days since the update, more than 17.5 trillion GP has been traded in player-to-player trades, nearly 10 trillion GP has been staked in duels and dropped in Wilderness kills, and a massive 19.5 trillion GP has been traded on the Grand Exchange, not to mention the huge number of generous gifts between players! That's a total of around 47 trillion GP! Just to give you some context, 1 trillion GP would currently get you 1,222 blue party hats, so there has certainly been a lot of trading.

That 17.5 trillion in player-to-player trades is greater than the total value of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange during the same period. You could buy all the gold bullion in Fort Knox nearly three times over, and the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom are worth a mere 20 million. In fact, 17.5 trillion is more than the entire GDP of the European Union!

for all you lazy people to read it, it says that jagex is giving some lucky noob a wildy t-shirt and plus looking at it how much cash has been moved so quickly

more than 17.5 trillion GP has been traded in player-to-player trade

 

[K_F_C]

This is what I've been trying to explain to people.
There are huge amounts of money being moved so Jagex isn't going to notice you buying a bit of gold.

 

[Christo]

I would've expected a better prize, instead of a t-shirt with the autographs of the Jagex mods, they could've had unlimited membership or something.

 

[Determinate]

Lol'd at their comparison of rsgp to USD on a 1:1 ratio basis.

 

[Davey32]

What do you do to win the great prize of a t-shirt?

 

[Zero_Rush]

http://services.runescape.com/m=news/free-trade-competition

that is it if u want to read it better

 

[Persia_Ugly]

Lol'd at their comparison of rsgp to USD on a 1:1 ratio basis.

I laughed at the same thing. "17.5 trillion is more than the entire GDP of the European Union!" GTFO

 

[SarahSmiles]

17.5 Trillion is a lot o.o

 

[Zero_Rush]

its kinda werid how they seriously compare gp for real money

 

[Rune Tycoon]

its kinda werid how they seriously compare gp for real money

they probably got bored.. I'm guessing next week they'll be like..

Guess wat guiz! we've banned half of the accounts that received 100+mill from rwting. hahahah!

I seriously think jagex might start selling gp soon.. pay for your account back and pay for gp..