Jagex has come under fire this OSRS gold season because of its microtransaction practices in RuneScape, even to the point of being known to them from the authorities. Last weekwe reported on an interview that laid out some details about a little bit regarding its monetization practices although the programmer’s content plans for 2020. Also several of the programmers talked about those plans on a livestream that has since been uploaded to YouTube and embedded below. There is a summary on Reddit, if you do not need to watch the whole hour-long talk.
The core issue is the”Duty of Care” that Jagex is attempting to highlight and make a reality for its runescape players, split into three chief components: freedom of choice, a safe environment, and satisfying involvement.
Freedom of selection revolves around the runescape player’s ability to make choices regarding money and play time spent. Jagex plans to reach out to runescape players that have spent an excessive amount of money.
This will be implemented in a”trial of an automated system prior to Christmas.” A safe environment encapsulates many of the less-savory community aspects of Cheap Rs gold online gaming that we are aware of — toxicity, harassment and so on — as well as combatting gold-sellers and runescape player-run games of chance.