Comments on: Expected Decrease in Members May Impact RuneScape Economy

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By: juicy101

juicy101 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:27:22 +0000

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By: juicy101

juicy101 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:25:59 +0000

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By: your mother

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By: al

al — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:17:45 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:24 +0000

Turbo, I quite agree with you that the MMORPGs aren’t going to be hit as hard as Xbox, World of Warcraft, etc, but answer this: what if people begin to cut their internet subscriptions? That makes no players AT ALL. Also, would you be able to make money better by killing cockroach soldiers or the King Black Dragon? The latter is available only to Members, and occasionally will drop Draconic Visage, worth over 19,000,000 gold.
However, you are correct in your GE observations: in order to discourage Merchant Clan influence on the Market, Jagex has locked the price of a few items, such as Rune Armour. Some clans have over 1 billion gold in the GE, and can drastically influence Market action (See my article)

By: Turbo

Turbo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:05:32 +0000

Interesting post, although quite to the contrary (and well documented), in a down economy, MMORPGs are one area that is not affected. The theory is that people flock to the online world more when times are bad.

A drop in total wealth would also require you to take more money out of the game than is flowing in, and that is just not possible. F2P and P2P alike players add value to the economy every time they open a chest, kill a mob, cut a tree, mine, or alch an item… The large cash sinks (con and summoning) aren’t even available to F2P, so the chances of money decreasing there is even less. Summoning effectively stopped the runaway inflation in the rares market by soaking up a portion of the wealth created, but it is working as it was intended.

The price of rune items is effectively held in place by their high alch price, which is of course cheaper than the shop price. Rune full helm alchs for 21,120. Today’s GE price is 21k. See how that works? The graph has been a straight line since the GE came out, with only a .08% change in the past 30 days.

Lastly, did you not notice that the shop price of many items are based on the GE price now?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:18:33 +0000

Your welcome. Just pay attention to that; I’m not making any guarantees, but I think there’s a possibility of a Member object crash

By: drkws998

drkws998 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:54:20 +0000

interesting article, thanks