I have been playing RuneScape, together RuneScape gold with the occasional rest, for over 13 decades. I’ve witnessed the lows, like the removal of PvP in the Wilderness between the highs, along with 2007 to 2011, like the launch of Old School RuneScape at 2013. I have completed fantastic quests full of rewarding challenges and great storylines (my favorites are Ritual of the Mahjarrent and While Guthix Sleeps). All the time that I’ve spent in Gielinor also means I have seen the growth of monetisation and microtransactions in RuneScape.
As a subscription RuneScape has had an element of pay-to-play since the membership program was released in February 2002. Since then the membership cost has gradually risen, however, it took 10 years for developer Jagex to present a new sort of monetisation and it had been called Squeal of Fortune.The concept was simple – players can win prizes, coins for instance, by spinning a wheel. Each participant received a certain number of free spins while added spins could be earned in-game or purchased using real-world money. Players were quick to criticise the attribute as being a kind of real-world trading, which RuneScape has a very long history of fighting.
Back in April 2012, Jagex redefined the rule about real world gambling in RuneScape, saying:”Real-world trading is the term utilized for actions which occur outside of the game environment which result from the real world sale or purchase of items, gold items or services with the intent of progressing or supplying a Jagex in-game personality other than by the way that are integrated into the game.” This change explains that real-world trading has to involve a third party and that any form of monetisation possessed by Jagex is omitted from this rule. But criticism of Squeal of Fortune lasted, until it was replaced with Treasure Hunter at February 2014.
Treasure Hunter remains the loot box system in RuneScape and has received criticism due to players. It has also been criticised for creating a pay-to-win setting, since many of its prizes, including a selection of XP lamps (like genie lamps), provide players of cheap OSRS gold with large quantity of experience they can spend on a skill of their own choice. The focus of those arguments is using the scoreboad Treasure Hunter devalues both of skilling itself, along with also the act.
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