Runescape Grand Exchange was Not a Bad Thing

Jim Grayson
Runescape
Publisher: Jagex Ltd.
Developer: Jagex Ltd.
Genre: Role Playing
ESRB: Everyone
Platform: PC Games
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Runescape released the Grand Exchange and things went wild. Players were ruined the economy was dead. Everyone one was going to quit playing, blah, blah, blah. "It's just not fair" they cried, "they set the trade limit to 3k, I can't drop trade with myself anymore, what will I ever do?" The answer is real simple, just deal with it. The Grand Exchange is a huge area were people put up items they are selling or bid on items they want to buy. Every item has a set minimum and maximum price that does change with supply and demand. This set price prevents people from scamming unsuspecting victims out of their hard earned gold.

I know there were a lot of players that made their money on Runescape by merchanting items they bought from someone way under price and sold to someone else for a ridiculously high price. So when the Grand Exchange was released those types of players were crushed. I am glad too. I think it's great that now in the trade window it shows what an item is worth and will not let you pay too much for the item or to less for it either. Another great thing about the grand exchange is that it made autoing way less profitable in hopes to deter players from using such programs to gain an unfair advantage in the game. Items that a player has gotten are easier to sell now that the G.E. is here. A player can put an item up for sale in the G.E. and have the items seen by everyone playing the game that is at the G.E. no matter what world you are on.

Buying items is much easier now for the same reason that selling them is easier there is just a bigger group of people to sell to. This allows me to sell my items much quicker than standing around in a bank trying to sell it or on the forums and allow for more time to gather items I am going to sell. I have honestly made more money now that the Grand Exchange is here. I think the majority of the players feel the same way. I think they are glad that they now have more of an opportunity to gain the rare items they have always wanted without the fear of being scammed out of million of gold.

Overall I am very pleased with the Grand Exchange. I like to play a fair game no matter what the game is, and when something is implemented that makes the game fairer for everyone I am all for that. Good Job Jagex keep up the good work.

Published by Jim Grayson

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  • dan7/30/2010

    fucking computer lagging

  • dan7/30/2010

    sorry for my grammar problems in that last comment got screwed u pbut you get the point i guess...

  • Dan7/30/2010

    This game would not be fully PLAYABLE if the G.E was never made it makes some of the most popular things in rs possible and fun such as pvps, money making, questing, gwd, and many other things that you would miss out on without it...don't waste your time talking about things you do not understand about this game in a forum you should look me at the things it helped vs the things it made worse..if there was no economy this game would be broken skilling would not be near possible such as fleching you could not buy the logs to train it... you would have to get them yourself and wait months and many more months..and thats what i mean by being broken

  • alex1/14/2009

    ok.. i'll be the first one to say no freakin duh it's one o the best updates with the graphic update that has ever happend to runescape

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