Squeal of Fortune

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I'm surprised this thread hasn't been created already. My first thoughts of squeal of fortune was 'Why are they giving out free xp' but I wasn't too fussed as each player only got two spins a day. Now that you can buy the squeal of fortune tickets I believe if it's not removed the game isn't going to last much longer. The game isn't based on how dedicated and determined you are to get your skills up, it's based on how rich you are. Right now I feel the same way as I did when they removed the wildy and free trade. Maybe I am being a little dramatic but at the end of the day I know if i was rich and could splash the cash I'd prefer to buy a skill in xp lamps which may take me an hour to redeem rather than sitting on runescape for 6 odd hours to get the same xp. It's a real shame, I did think Jagex was making great improvements with the game and was excited for the future updates.

What annoys me the most about this update is Jagex told us in previous speeches from runefest events etc that if they don't take action against real world trading it would hurt the game greatly yet they bring out updates like this. Double standards much? I'm really not sure what I'm going to do with my account at the moment, I think I just wont play and see how things pan out. Hopefully they'll remove the squeal of fortune so you can't buy tickets for real life cash. I think Jagex know this update is going to cause uproar as if you read the source below they don't seem to mention anything about purchasing the squeal of fortune tokens, it almost looks like they are trying to keep it on the DL.


Thoughts? PLEASE LET THIS BE A LATE APRIL FOOLS JOKE


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I hope it is a joke tbh, I've enjoyed the wheel while it lasts but now is the time for it to go now :p

Not sure how its really buying exp

I've spun the wheel twice a day since it came out, and I rarely get lamps (of any value anyway). I think I've had maybe 2 medium lamps, and the rest smalls (about 10 maybe)?

Its really not making a difference tbh. You're getting so little exp from these lamps, I don't see the problem.

I think the wheel is good. The chance of getting rare items is low, so I don't think its disrupting anything at all.

You're not getting little xp lol

Per day only doing 2 spins I get 3-15k+ xp every day basically

So with the ability to buy like 75 spins at a time that's alot of xp

They nerfed effigies as they effected the xp rates as people hoarded them, now they're selling xp for $, nice.

Good thing i did quit lol

I'll just stick with my two free spins, anyone got the rare item yet? :D

I've had quite a good number of large lamps but nothing higher then that :p. But rune 2h aint even a bad reward at like 50k and had a few of them.

I have no idea what this is as I dont play anymore, but if they're giving away lots of xp then surely theres a problem and it should be removed?

This is quite stupid. As a day one thing, fine but as something permanent then that's just stupid. People are going to spend money on tokens and just start gaining a ton of xp.

i like it. not bothered if people want to buy tickets but you can get free spin ticket drops which is good.

Not many people liking this, some even rioting, lol!!!

omustardo put a vid up on his channel of him doing 75 spins in a few minutes and worked out that on average, if you dump a bunch of irl cash on spins (I expect suomi will be taking paypal donations!) it's about 800k exp/hr.

Not one of the best moves jagex has made. I expect lamp rewards will be nerfed soon enough but I don't really care either way as I don't play to compete with people. If they want to spend their irl bank on rs exp then let them... at least the money is going to jagex and not chinese gold farmers.

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Originally Posted by Kyle

Not many people liking this, some even rioting, lol!!!

omustardo put a vid up on his channel of him doing 75 spins in a few minutes and worked out that on average, if you dump a bunch of irl cash on spins (I expect suomi will be taking paypal donations!) it's about 800k exp/hr.

Not one of the best moves jagex has made. I expect lamp rewards will be nerfed soon enough but I don't really care either way as I don't play to compete with people. If they want to spend their irl bank on rs exp then let them... at least the money is going to jagex and not chinese gold farmers.

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Yeah man was just about to say that, he's asking people to send money to his paypal so he can buy spins ******* sad *******.


Oh and ppl saying you never get lamps, look on youtube. People have done 75 spins and the majority of them get over 40 lamps which is ******* crazy. Some are making 1m xp an hour if not more

Having watched the runeshark video on this my opinions changed..

But aren't they in financial difficulties? Theyre trying to make some extra money, but they're just going about it in the wrong way. I can see it getting removed as there's so much uproar over this.

I like it tbh.

I suppose I'm not as much of a fan of runescape as you lot, so I'm not too bothered about xp disadvantages or whatever.

I think its just a bit of fun. :)

I think its cool, really want something rare thats lucky. Always seems to skip past it l0l :'(

Really think this was a silly idea selling tokens or whatever? Spins I guess.

Today using my two free spins, I got two medium XP lamps which I could use on whatever I wanted to. It's actually a reasonable amount of XP for an XP Lamp as well so if they're that frequent then I think there is a problem.

i don't get anything worth it most of the time, don't see the free spins as a problem but selling spins was a bad move.

Buying speems is completely ridiculous.

I think there should be a limit on how many free spin tickets you can win? (Not sure if there is one already)

I've had 6 spins today.. 2 from default, 4 from rock crabs. xD

+Yeah buying it is stupid. Another way to make money :rolleyes:

I never get anything good from them anyway. Although today I got lucky and got a medium exp lamp which made me level :) PROUD!

To add to this because I can't edit my last post, apparently when SUOMI said he'd take donations and buy spins, that was a joke. Not so sure myself though.

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Originally Posted by Zak

To add to this because I can't edit my last post, apparently when SUOMI said he'd take donations and buy spins, that was a joke. Not so sure myself though.

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He gave out his email though and apparently someone emailed him saying ill donate or whatever and he gave them a paypal account to donate to.

Obviously wasn't a joke :L

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Originally Posted by Matts

He gave out his email though and apparently someone emailed him saying ill donate or whatever and he gave them a paypal account to donate to.

Obviously wasn't a joke :L

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Kinda makes Runescape seem pointless lol Mega rich people can just buy 99s, though I'm sure that would take alot of $$$$