Petition Against Selling In-game Advantage
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Man, I thought I was over this by now, but apparently not. >.< There are many layers to this update which I find bad, and together it makes it a horrible update for me. These things are:
1) Overpowered nature of the boots
2) The ability to train agility without training agility
3) Micro-transitions
4) The process of obtaining them

1) I am going to start with the overpowered nature of the boots, since that is a big one for me. Agility before this update was the 2nd slowest skill in the game (divination being the slowest) and with bxp had a max of 140K xp/hr. With the new boots, training properly you get nearly 500K xp/hr...making a great xp/hr skill for one that used to be the slowest. I understand that new methods will come over time replacing old methods, making your work before somehwat obsolete, that is how the game goes. But this increase is waaay too major for the usual game progression, even if this was a big agility update the XP/hr usually wouldn't jump up more than 30K extra.

2) Not only this, but with these boots the time required for training agility is 0.... 0 hours! Since you gain all the xp while doing other skilling, meaning if everybody was rich enough agility courses would be dead content. I would be much happier if these boots gave extra xp to the agility skill as you progressed through the agility courses, that would make so much more sense.

3) Micro-transitions are an active part of the game now, I accept that. If people want to spend hundreds of dollars or billions of gp to buy treasure hunter keys, that is their choice like you said Meg. However bringing a very overpowered item in the game and plopping it into that system seems a bit extraordinary to me. I mean, clearly Jagex is just phasing us slowly into this new micro-transition stage, and they are planning much more of this for the future over time. This thought really cares me...but Jagex kinda screwed up here because this item was too strong, too fast, so there was a big backlash.

4) This ties into my last point, but the way they had this promotion for over the weekend so just those playing then could get the item really aggravated me. Later I have found out it is still available but just rarer, which makes it a bit better but not that much. If they are going to be a revolutionizing, top-of-the-line skilling content into the game, I feel like all players should have easy access to it.

Now, with all the backlash that happened, Jagex has made some adjustments which I commend them for, all the points still remain though. I just think there is a lot more to this update then first appears.
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RE: Petition Against Selling In-game Advantage - by AlchemyHawk - 2014-03-22 17:04:35

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