Message From Mod MMG

Dont really get how this is going to work in any of the ways jagex described.

The only thing i can see happening is people just buying gp from jagex, which is worse than from the gold farmers cause its magically being spawned in the game.

No gp is being spawned, players dictate the value of bonds and transfer the cash between themselves.

But you can buy the bonds for irl money, which you can redeem into gp?

It's not redeeming, when you buy a bond, jagex puts the bond in your invent, which you can sell on the ge for cash, no extra money comes into the game.

It could also mean less money from membership for jagex depending on how much these things are selling for in-game. If the players truly are setting the price then thats probably going to be the case.

Jagex still set the irl value for bonds and you still require membership to access game features so this makes no difference.

What if you just kept funding membership through the bonds using in-game money, then jagex arn't getting any money (or at least less money)? Even if its 100m for a week of mems. People do that in a day, easily. A nex drop is like wat, 1 in ~14 kills? for people who PvM thats not hard to do

This won't decrease the amount of membership being bought though, the same amount of total membership is being bought, so for example, 10k members = $50k/month right? So that could be 1000 people paying $50 each and selling $45 worth of bonds on the ge, or w/e, but the total amount of membership purchased doesn't decrease.

Not sure jagex have quite grasped the idea of a money sink yet either...

To make bonds retradable you need to pay 10% of the value of the bond.

you can buy bonds for irl money, so your magically spawning gp (see above) Its not a money sink if your taking 10% off magically spawned items.

Each time the bond is made retradeable it takes 10% of the value from the game, because gold isn't magically spawned, it actually is a money sink :O