Jagex is putting its foot down, with a new effort to stamp out game-breaking “real-world trading”, or RWT, in its long-running MMO RuneScape.The trade of virtual currencies for real-world money can be a problem for many online games, upsetting in-game economies, unbalancing player experiences, or turning games into pay-to-win scenarios.
In RuneScape, the trade in its digital ‘gold’ has been a particular problem, leading to bots mining the resource, and even accusations that the ability to buy in-game ‘bonds’ for real-world money amounts to gambling.Now, Jagex has outlined plans to tackle the problem.
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