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Solomon's General Store - Grand Opening!

Discussion in 'RuneScape' started by Drama, Jul 18, 2012.

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    Solomon - a genie of exquisite taste and distinction - has a plethora of exclusive merchandise to enhance your characters appearance, and is offering them for purchase in his boutique: Solomon's General Store.

    There are costumes - become a cunning Assassin or a debonair swashbuckler, and visual enhancements for your weapons - how about a Pactbreaker longsword?; there are also animations that change how you skill and teleport; a variety of emotes; and a host of new titles. Last, but certainly not least, a banner that allows you to stamp your mark on Gielinor!

    Free players and members alike will have access to this store from within the game, and as a celebration of his store's 'Grand Opening', Solomon is offering all first time visitors to his store 200 RuneCoins to spend.

    That's on top of the 10% that all members receive in the store - permanently!


    Alongside Solomon’s General Store is the new Customisation System. This lets you change your appearance without losing the stats from your regular worn items, set up new animation overrides and manage your titles. It also allows you to preview the various items and animations available in Solomon’s General Store, so you can view them on your character before making a purchase. This dressing room even lets you save costume combinations for the future. The Customisation System can be accessed at any time from your Worn Equipment tab.

    RuneCoins are a new currency that we've introduced purely for Solomon's General Store and they're available for purchase through the Jagex billing system, accessed either here or via the Buy RuneCoins button from inside the Store itself.

    And remember for our members, we have a discount of 10% on all items available in the Store!

    Please note that that items purchased from the store are untradeable.

    Take a look at our FAQ or Help Guide if you have further questions, or drop into the forums to let us know what items you’d love to see next.

    In other news

    The Scream emote is now available in the Members Loyalty Programme store at the discounted price of 4500 loyalty points.
    The RuneScape Team

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    View the Patch Notes Archive here.
     
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    I've always liked that RuneScape had a free mode (although they haven't added much to it :/) and a premium mode instead of a cash shop... looks like just cosmetic items so that's good but it always seems to start as "just cosmetic" items and then next thing you know XP boosters, gear etc x.x
     
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    well, the jmods don't listen to players. so they don't really care.

    The investors just want more money also so it's a lose/lose for the players.
     
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    Sadly people are gonna use the shop... a lot... it'll be touted as a success and great for the players x.x
     
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    [​IMG]

    Well...as a fan of ninjas and such I can't lie that this assassin outfit looks pretty awesome. And it can be recolored.

    But it isn't worth me spending 35-45 dollars.
     
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    35-45 dollars for that???
     
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    Yea. Pretty ridiculous price huh? oh and that is only 1 outfit.
     
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    Formula to success:

    Overpriced Ninja's + Kid's with parents that can't say no + unlimited funds = profit

    *sigh*... I bet these will sell well too x.x
     
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    Overpriced Ninja suit + Spoiled Kids + unlimited funds = Profit


    Clarified a bit =p

    But yes that basically is it.


    However if you pay attention to this graph:

    [​IMG]

    It follows a trend since 2007 when RS was given to control by Mark Gerhard and the wild/free trade were removed. They/we have been losing 30% if not more of the players every year.

    Squeal certainly isn't helping. What they need to do is:

    LISTEN

    Far too many good ideas go by in the suggestions forums. None of them are used. The updates are getting worse and worse in quality. Quests are becoming too long to put out. The game is far from becoming better really =/

    Not only suggestions but feedback. THEY JUST DON'T LISTEN! In all minds they are grown up children trying to run a game it seems.


    Jagex will never see the numbers they did in 2007. I can tell you that much.
     
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    Yup instead of fixing the problem they are instead creating new streams of revenue with the hope they can make just as much and more off the smaller userbase.
     
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    Jagex isn't good at fixing. They are good at breaking.

    Jagex's 'motto' is that they have to "Fix" what isn't broken. In this case they have to Break what isn't broken.
     
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