/biz/ - Business & Finance

Remember merch clans like Smokin Mils? They would encourage noobs to pump random items in the ge then dump on them.

>>8792801
Now those guys are working at Wallstreet

>>8792769
Terrible update after terrible from 2007 onwards, when the game was hitting its peak

yes, but not the grand exchange, but banning trade ruined the game.

Yeah, I miss the days were you could get fair prices and everybody had a gentlemen's agreement not to fuck you over on common items. Rare items however, you could charge as much as you want.

Remember when this game had like over 150k player online showing.
Its been downhill since ge and wildy kill.

If you werent around the time when varrock was plastered with players occupating each pixel in town spaming the chat with offers and sells then you missed out on life

>>8792810
wallstreet might finally be over soon. the equivalent of those kids today wont actually need jobs because it was with real money this time (crypto)

>>8792942
take me back!!!

>>8792942

Starting out mining coal and made a few hundred thousand. Then I starting trading god armor. Would spend hours behind varrock bank with a chat bot buying and selling different god armor and occasionally easter eggs. Good times.

>tfw still remember spending weeks fishing sharks while constantly scanning the forums for items to flip
>tfw saving up my first 10M and blowing it all on a white party hat
>tfw owning 1 BTC now is like owning a party hat back then

>tfw the only reason i'm interested in economics and investing is that i used to flip items to make money in MMOs

>>8792942
I miss drop parties where you were led into the wild without realizing and then got slaughtered...

>>8792801
I was literally in this merch clan. When the fuck was that? Like 2011?

I logged over 200 days playtime on RS over the course of 8 years. Sometimes I forget I even played that game. Jesus fuck

Yes it did. This game was so great with it's market system.

What a great childhood game - much better than wow

Yes. it did

At least I voted against the GE in old school

Without GE I wouldn't play OSRS, fuck that, just rich merchers capitalising on other people's convenience, they can get C

>>8792968
>wallstreet might finally be over soon
imagine being this retarded

i wish runescape developers had the same philosophy of eve: online developers

>>8793675
>>8793675
>I logged over 200 days playtime on RS over the course of 8 years
That's fucked up. You have a problem.

Now checking the economy system in RuneScape, it seems something that I would enjoy nowadays. A shame I wasn't into MMOs and economy when I was a teen but it's too late to get into RuneScape now.

>>8795173
Me on the bottom

>>8792801
how exactly do you accomplish this, just ask noobs to list at prices higher and higher?

>>8795639
Bruh and other people in the thread, go play oldschool runescape. It's a clone of the 2007 version with additional community voted content. You aren't too late ;)

>>8796119
You needed to show you had a decent amount of cash to get in the clan. I think it was 10 million or some shit. Then leaders would chose an item to pump that didn't have too much volume. Then they would get everyone in the clan to buy the daily limits of that item until it was time to dump it all and make a profit. And of course, the leaders were the only ones able to take maximum advantage.

I used to be in it. The earning potential wasn't much if all you had was less than 100 million GP or so.


I wasted a lot of time with that game. Overall, nothing good came out of it.

>>8796192
I hate when noobs consider old school runescape to be the crappy 2007 version. Get on my level newfag

>>8796239
Me on the left

I'm afraid to go back on rs or osrs. I want the good ol' times back, but i think i'll only get disappointed if i return

>GE killed the game
>He'd rather spend 5 fucking hours getting absolutely jew'd at Falador bank.

sad!

>>8793675
same man, maxed combat, multiple 99s

to think i was wasting my time fucking farming digital herbs in 2010 instead of getting ground level BTC

>>8796239
fucking this. I don't play osrs because even 2007 was fucked up already. gimme my 2002 RS back!!! members content is what started the slippery slope

>>8792769

I briefly botted this game using f2p accounts. I wasn't that knowledgeable about the game so I ended up sending them to mine clay and trade to mule accounts (miner accounts would get banned every 3 hours or so). I think I was mining something like 100k clay per day with 40 accounts going 24/7 but I overloaded the supply on the GE and prices crashed from high 100s to 80s so I gave up.

started playing again a couple of months ago after 4 years of trying to be a normie

>you never quit runescape, you only go afk

>>8797896
It was like a drug. In the best way possible.