Con's:
- Players who can make their own money are fucked by idiots who spend lots on RSGP
- No incentive to keep accounts secure (derp if I loose it all I'll just buy more)
- The economy would collapse, things in demand would rise massively in price
- No-one would train resource skills so it would be impossible to train anything (Why would someone mine for 200k gp/h when they can buy 10m for $5?)

Thankfully, because GP buying is still against the rules the majority (at least I hope it's the majority) of players will not buy GP, so it's affect isn't too terrible. But look back when RWT wasn't allowed, and while GE merching/manipulation was a problem or the most part the economy was in a much better state than it is now with free trade along with the associated botting and RWT.

Oh and if you look at other games that have actively promoted the ability to buy in game items they have generally failed because a couple of rich people who have nothing better to do with their money dominate, while everyone else has no chance. Considering RS is mostly School Students it's quite likely you'll find that if Jagex sold GP, some rich adults would quickly start dominating the game by buying massive amounts of items.

To be frank, if Jagex themselves started selling Gp, it'd be a good excuse to quit entirely.
 
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Con's:
- Players who can make their own money are fucked by idiots who spend lots on RSGP
- No incentive to keep accounts secure (derp if I loose it all I'll just buy more)
- The economy would collapse, things in demand would rise massively in price
- No-one would train resource skills so it would be impossible to train anything (Why would someone mine for 200k gp/h when they can buy 10m for $5?)

Thankfully, because GP buying is still against the rules the majority (at least I hope it's the majority) of players will not buy GP, so it's affect isn't too terrible. But look back when RWT wasn't allowed, and while GE merching/manipulation was a problem or the most part the economy was in a much better state than it is now with free trade along with the associated botting and RWT.

Oh and if you look at other games that have actively promoted the ability to buy in game items they have generally failed because a couple of rich people who have nothing better to do with their money dominate, while everyone else has no chance. Considering RS is mostly School Students it's quite likely you'll find that if Jagex sold GP, some rich adults would quickly start dominating the game by buying massive amounts of items.

To be frank, if Jagex themselves started selling Gp, it'd be a good excuse to quit entirely.

Totally agree with this, I've played games and later found out you could buy in-game items, and it just ruins the game, because no matter how hard you work, there's always some dumb prick who spends $10 for a sword you can never get.
 
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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
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Gold4RS and Powerbot

More on topic, I can guarantee that Jagex are not selling Gold, that'd just be outright stupid of them. Gold Selling sites, most of them are fake, of course there are a few legit ones ^. But if your really looking to buy GP you should only do it with someone that you can REALLY trust.

Going on from what JC said about people mass buying Items/Gold, that does already happen. People buy VERY obscene amounts of gold at a low price because they are extremely trusted. Selling it for just a notch higher produces quite a large profit depending on your scale.

RSGP is a big business, be careful. I would not get involved if you dont need to.
 
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Rachell I hope your not serious?

The GP is farmed by bots, not by little children, you don't have to worry, haha.
 
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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
Psalm 23:4

Rachell I hope your not serious?

The GP is farmed by bots, not by little children, you don't have to worry, haha.

And Chinese prisoners: Link

Botting is pretty disgraceful yeah, but to me that seems like an even worse way for people to obtain Virtual Items to sell to random players.

That and it's also fairly prevalent that the items are gained by people hacking/scamming/phishing etc. so again, you're buying someone else's items to help fund some hacker.
 
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Most Mature & Most Honourable
Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus
Placeholder lolz

Rachell I hope your not serious?

The GP is farmed by bots, not by little children, you don't have to worry, haha.

And Chinese prisoners: Link

Botting is pretty disgraceful yeah, but to me that seems like an even worse way for people to obtain Virtual Items to sell to random players.

That and it's also fairly prevalent that the items are gained by people hacking/scamming/phishing etc. so again, you're buying someone else's items to help fund some hacker.

Holy fuck.

I never knew that^^.


 
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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
Psalm 23:4

The man speaks the truth. The rich asians (not lieing) pull that shit 24/7.
 
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Rachell I hope your not serious?

The GP is farmed by bots, not by little children, you don't have to worry, haha.

And Chinese prisoners: Link

Botting is pretty disgraceful yeah, but to me that seems like an even worse way for people to obtain Virtual Items to sell to random players.

That and it's also fairly prevalent that the items are gained by people hacking/scamming/phishing etc. so again, you're buying someone else's items to help fund some hacker.

Holy fuck.

I never knew that^^.

Just seriously messed up. When I think of prisoners I usually think of the hard criminals, but then there are people who go to jail just for getting to drunk in public. Some of these countries it would be crime just to own certain books. Makes me wonder how long they get to sleep a day. Just because they did a crime to treat them like this is still wrong.
 
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