Well since pool's finished they should be back anytime now
I wouldn't say anytime now, jagex won't rush into this as it could cause drama within the community. I personally think they will reopen a poll with the ones that gained most support to verify what the players actually want. However, I don't agree on the phats being randomly dropped - this is going to make select players "insta-billionaires" which will cause the majority of players whom didn't receive a rare to be quite pissed off leadin to a lot of players "anti-jagex"
There's no way any of the votes would reach 75% with more then 6 or 7 different votes to choose from. Jagex will just go with the most voted method, meaning they will be dropping them just like they did in 2001. Give it another month and I'm sure will make some kind of a "rare introduction event" and drop rares randomly around the big cities.
I wouldn't say anytime now, jagex won't rush into this as it could cause drama within the community. I personally think they will reopen a poll with the ones that gained most support to verify what the players actually want. However, I don't agree on the phats being randomly dropped - this is going to make select players "insta-billionaires" which will cause the majority of players whom didn't receive a rare to be quite pissed off leadin to a lot of players "anti-jagex"
I don't think they drop rares until late summer.
I still believe they need to sell the 'rares' in shops for 20-50m for a weekend then discontinue them, not drop them.
There are players on OSRS with over 300M in cash, not including other assets. How would it be fair to other players?
There is no best way to do it - all players are extremely conscious about rares and eager to collect them. Regardless of the route they take, there will be a drawback to it.
We all started back at Zero on March 1st, then were given 2 months to accumulate as much GP as we could. Everyone was given a 'fair' chance.
Not everyone can be given a 'rare' then they aren't rares. Only the ones with $$ can acquire such things. Plus this is a way to take some of the already farmed GP out of the game; buy an item directly from a shop.
I can go onto an assortment of gold websites and buy enough gold to purchase several rares, if they were ever released into a shop... I've been playing OSRS for exactly 7 days as of today, how is that fair to players who spent all their money on leveling their skills for the past two months?
Also; How is that fair for users who are joining recently, who have yet to acquire such cash amounts?
Simply, it's not.
It's fair because you were given the same chance as everyone else was March 1st. Everyone was reset to the same level, and there was no gp in the game. It was up to the players to farm the gold. Everyone was given the same opportunity.
If Jagex just drops the rares then everyone is going to get a rare and they won't be rare. The item will be worthless, a prime example is fish masks in EoC there was too much supply and very little demand.
Where as, if you were to sell them in a shop the people who have spent time and money farming gold will be the only ones to get a rare. OR like you said you have the option of going onto an assortment of gold websites and buy enough gold to purchase rares. The price of the rares have to be high enough so that only few players can afford them. That is what will make them rare, when only a few players have the item.

