Squeal of Fortune – Extra Spins

Maybe you don't care if the next guy in line pays for a quick boost, but it completely destroys the competitive aspect of the game where you try to improve yourself in relation to other players and climb the highscores. Just like the removal of f2p highscores killed the game for many of those players, the members game suffers when you cheapen their highscores by allowing people to climb up by paying for it rather than playing the game.

This goes against the stance Jagex has held for the entirety of its existence regarding rwt. They had always contended that a player's real life financial status should not dictate his ability to advance in their game, and today they threw that principle out the window. This is not something to be taken lightly.

Besides that, can anybody explain to me how THIS update (the main update, not anything in the patch notes/other news) makes Runescape a better game? And can you honestly say that we would be worse off without it? I certainly can't. Just like I said about the original SoF update, it's a cheap gimmick and it doesn't bring anything to the table.

Even if the update itself doesn't bother you, it should bother you that they allowed the game to stagnate another week in favor of it. The effort put into this update could have instead been directed toward new gameplay, or a new quest, or a new dungeon or monster or item, or improving old content, or working on the bot issue, or fixing the framerate and lag issues that seem to be rampant these days, but that's not what they did. They neglected their game another week in favor of an update that does nothing but take more money from their customers.