Bonds in OSRS?? Read here

[Dizzy]

Bonds and RuneFest

With the RuneFest announcement being made earlier today many of you will have noticed that you are able to buy your tickets, hotels, food, drink and souvenirs using bonds. Last year showed us that there are a huge amount of Old School players that love attending RuneFest and we thought it is only fair that we should start a discussion about whether you wanted to take advantage of this offer. The one thing to be clear about is that this is just a discussion and you won’t suddenly wake up one morning to see bonds appearing in Old School. If bonds are introduced they will be done on the communities terms and only after passing a poll.

The benefits of bonds have been well documented, they help in the battle against bots and real world trading, you can use them to buy membership (which is particularly useful when it comes to the F2P trial) as well being able to use them to pay for your RuneFest trip. The one thing you as a community need to be aware of is that at some point a player will have to buy that bond for real world money and will trade that bond for gold coins. That is the reality of the system and you can’t have one without another.

The movement of gold between RuneScape and Old School via the gold swapping clans is well established and has been facilitating the use of bonds in Old School for a long time now. Bringing bonds directly into Old School will remove the risk that gold swapping clans bring.

We know that some of you may see bonds as a prelude to other microtransactions like treasure hunter or Solomon’s store. Again, if this community wanted these we could do them, but we are pretty sure you don’t. If you want bonds in Old School only to be used for membership and RuneFest only then we can do that. If you don’t want bonds in Old School at all then you won’t see them.

This decision is for the community to make, and we think now is the right time to ask this question – how do you feel about bonds in Old School?

See the main RuneFest post here.

Discuss this on our forums.

Mods Alfred, Ash, John C, Mat K, Reach, Ronan & Weath

The Old School Team

http://services.runescape.com/m=news/bonds-and-runefest?oldschool=1

Thoughts? New way to make cash in game if they are Introduced.

If you are a money making machine @@Maining, free membership for life.

[Bjorn]

No thanks, keep the game as Old School as possible. 

[Jonny]

imo they do really really good work with oldschool.

compare the start of oldschool to now.

 

 

they respect us and let us entirely decide what we want and what we do not.

[Callum]

No thanks, keep the game as Old School as possible. 

[Veta]

cya @@Novations

[I J3r I Pur3]

Rather have bonds then that other solomon thing crap 

[TJ]

I don't think anyone really cares about the risk of gold swapping. Due to the fact there's safe clans.

[Fuz]

I don't think anyone really cares about the risk of gold swapping. Due to the fact there's safe clans.

[Horizon]

No thanks, keep the game as Old School as possible. 

[Coggy]

Another update thats not needed

[Mahfia]

idm it just becoming pre eoc with old graphics 

[TJ]

idm it just becoming pre eoc with old graphics

Yeah; I can agree with that. Pre eoc ( minus a few op weapons) was the nearly perfected version of runescape. If they added the graphics that they have right now in rs3, I wouldn't mind as long as theres a toggle.

[Nearly Godz]

Ooh nice

[Maining]

i havnt payed for membership with irl in over 7yrs anyway not hard to xfer my 07 to rs3 to buy a bond think this will be bad if they brough it to os just keep it to rs3 only

[Tony]

cya @@Novations

 

lmao

[Lugia]

ehhhh

[Blaze]

idm it just becoming pre eoc with old graphics 

 

exactly my thought on every update after 07 release

[Briggsy]

can't they just put proper f2p in now?

Why bother with all these shit updates when the game is dying.

Get f2p, get more people to make the game more active