Originally Posted by
nkd2009
Thinking back to the many years ago when the game was very simple and Xp was much slower, I fondly remember making 200k to buy rune armor after mining iron. So I can see how if the market was just absolutely flooded with items it could function as a huge negative for new players. I think that is a great thing to keep in mind. On the flip side, the game has completely changed. XP rates are much faster, the currency seems to be devalued a lot. If you buy GP from RWT(I don't but used as a reference), RS3 gold is not worth nearly as much as old school GP. But maybe that was all due to botting, I'm not actually sure. Seems to me that there are a lot more bots in old school than RS3 but the damage could have already been done. I'm not quite sure. What I meant to point out, and probably did poorly, was the fact that the player base seems to have fundamentally changed and less new players are playing the game. If that continues, I'd rather be able to still buy items on the grand exchange, even if I'm unknowingly trading with a bot. But perhaps I'm not taking into account that bots caused the problem to begin with. It seems much more likely, to me, that as time goes on, the 13-17 age group might rather spend time playing COD or faster paced games and that updates that made the game easier unknowingly made the game less enjoyable instead of more. You definitely have a point, I was just making a paradoxical claim that maybe the focus and hatred towards bots isn't really that well thought out.