Squeal of Fortune – Extra Spins

"If you can't beat them, join them".

Why should jagex miss out on all that real world cash?

Personally, I do not wish to participate in buying more for real cash.
I can't justify the $$$. Simple as that.

I do have a concern though. Say I am hunting a zombie impling, with my level 90 hunting, and another guy is trying to catch the same impling but they have 99 hunting due to paying real cash for the experience lamps. That clearly gives the other person an unfair advantage just by virtue of their deep pockets. (Maybe not the best example - you could compare it to mining runite but I have 99 mining myself).

The same could be true of player killing I suppose, but I never involve myself in that activity.

The problem with the can't beat em join em mindset is that Jagex was known and respected for not conforming to the rest of the MMOs by not implementing a form of RWT like practically every other MMO has. From the beginning they had been anti-RWT and we have grown up with them being against RL status giving advantage in game. Before it didn't matter if you were rich irl or poor as long as you could put in time you were equal in RS. Now if you have a ton of cash you can cut down the time in RS by a lot which is a big advantage. And I do believe this is only the beginning. If Jagex think we don't mind they will move on to more extreme implementations of RWT besides just buying spins to gamble for stuff that does give an advantage. Of course the biggest problem of this is not the fact of them implementing RWT it's the fact that implementing RWT goes against everything Jagex has stood for for these past 11 years and contradicts the rules they themselves set and have enforced for all this time. The biggest thing this update has done is destroy any honor Jagex had and shows them as not caring bout their own rules. This is definitely going to hurt the player base. As for how many actually quit due to this is hard to know. Most likely few will quit since the ones that have stuck around this long are too addicted to quit since they have stayed through all the crap Jagex have done over the years. Though in all honesty this is the first time they have ever totally gone back on their own rules. All the other crap at least they did with their own rules backing them.