Rare name release?
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This pretty much means good bye name sniping bots. But of course there'll be people who'll buy mass amounts of bonds for temp memberships and change their names manually.
well, spending 1 bond, aka 6.4m eoc for a name that could be sold between 20-100m+, i don't think name snipers would be bothered to spend 6m
Can see Jagex monitoring the names that are free'd up to ensure fair distribution
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As part of my business I continually monitor 3 letter/character combinations and can confirm that they've been being released in waves at a rate higher than the usual norm since the article was posted on the website. The first obvious wave was around 1pm* GMT on the 8th.
It's fair to assume that not only 3 letter names are the ones being released, they're just the only ones I've seen. If there's a name you want, the time to start watching it has passed
It's fair to assume that not only 3 letter names are the ones being released, they're just the only ones I've seen. If there's a name you want, the time to start watching it has passed
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They said end of July to start of August
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Yeah, I saw that. There was definitely a small blip on the 8th though, maybe they ran a small batch to confirm there were no major issues? It makes sense that they would test small groups beforehand so they don't end up dropping names that shouldn't be dropped
It's nothing personal, it's just good business.
Tbh I think a lot of snipers are gonna hope to get good names and this is just gonna get the name buying market a big flurry for the days in which this happens, but if I get a name i will be extremely happy.
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For some reason I think Jagex will somehow restrict people from hoarding during the update. I don't think they'd blindly release so many names knowing how badly they gun for RWT'ers.
i hope i can get my old 2 letter name 
It's nothing personal, it's just good business.
Yeah thats what I thought, when names can be sold for like upto 500m, why would a name sniper care about spending 3-4 bonds on getting bots to snipe the names, that is the only thing jagex doesn't understand. I like the idea of the acc should be like 3 weeks or 1 month old tho
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It's pretty inevitable what will happen with this release.
As being someone who's been involved with this market so actively and for a long time I can see the frustration that Jagex has been going through with regards to the high volume of emails they get now about display name requests, having names changed back, offensive usernames, and alot of other crap. I know this because some of the jmods have personally expressed these emotions with me.
The whole entire names market in general will crash tremendously because of the huge decrease in demand and surplus of supply. The shear desire to have a username will be gone for a long time since there will be so many in the hands of all users now.
Rumor has it that on the HLF there will be 10Million + usernames released over the period of this month. With 10 million free names its like January 2001 all over again, the sky is the limit and there will be alot to choose from. Keep your minds open because there are ALOT of names coming out, but there are also ALOT that won't be coming out. It will be as good as you make it out to be, some of us live for this
This is kind of good, kind of bad news. But i'm excited for it!
Is there any way to tell if a player (name) is inactive?
Theyve been working on the nitty gritty over the past two weeks about this type of stuff. I've been losing handfulls of names every few days. Seems like theyre working on different detection methods because ive been paying attention to the patterns.
It's nothing personal, it's just good business.
I hope so, because it would be pretty bad if this just opened up thousands of potential names to name snipers as a few people would get a bunch of names which they sell, and the rest of the people would get nothing.
Paying attention?
I didn't know this was another word of saying " I've been reporting name sales threads but somehow i didn't snipe the released reported names ;C"
Pathetic scum, why where you pardoned again?
I hate to rain on your parade, but i'm actually glad they are haha.
There's one particular name i'm looking for, well two... one's sort of a "backup" in case the first is taken T_T.... yet I have an odd feeling that it was/will either A) White listed (even though it's not famous or anything) B) Won't even be released in any of the batches or C) Going to be taken by another person... even though i'm literally going to wait till the very first second to get the damn name hahaa.
Fingers crossed...