“OMFG JAGEX TRIED TO MAKE MONEY! FUCKING CAPITALIST PIGS! HOW DARE THEY ACT LIKE A COMPANY AND SEEK TO MAKE PROFITS! RAGE QUIT!!!.”
—Stalin
“I Love you jagex, you're the best gaming company ever to have existed and jagex always knows best This is a great Idea because I suck at making money.”
—asskisser
“Bonds are bad cause I cant afford them, But Im not going to quit as long as commander zilyana is still hawt *fap* *fap* *fap*”
—You
Whilst Jagex may have finally eliminated the bot problem (alongside thousands of legitimate players), after ten years of running the game they finally realised that between 40- 50% of the active player base bought in-game money for real world money instead of staying at home for the entirety their childhood and early adult life to get recognition and money on a game.
Jagex thought long and hard about the importance of balancing the economy, retaining their commitment to ensuring that wealth could not be bought, and working out how skill training could be made to be less of a grind. After five minutes they gave up and introduced bonds. Bonds are a tradeable membership item that can freely gifted or traded for any other tradeable in-game item.
As a result, players would be able to pay for their game membershits with money from the game, and gold farmers would theoretically have no customers. The bonds update would also include a gold-sink designed to help the ingame economy recover from extreme fatinflation. The forums blew up with outrage that Jagex had the audacity to act like a company and attain profits at the expense of others, there was controversy over the issue as players thought that It was not "fair" to bring more forms of real world trading into the game. These are the same players who see no problem in most of the game's wealth being held in rares that only the very oldest, very richest players were able to profit from, or indeed from the fact that the money-making system is so messed up for middle ranked players that most wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few veterans who keep their money in party hats.