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Vote with your wallet, I have stopped playing runescape about 2 decades ago today because I did not need to invest all my time into a game where somebody else can either steal all my progress or accomplish those RS gold very same achievements via botting or paying somebody else. The people would pay someone to play with their accounts. Then they eventually got their wish in RS3.

If you guys have been playing since OSRS release and STILL aren't maxed (7 years btw). Because spending 4 months of IRL 3,000 hours time getting maxed stats at a video game is not a life priority for them. Nobody can utilize 24 hours a day. It would be 6 months and 2 months of nothing but OSRS if one were to play with 15 hours a day, stopping only to eat and sleep for 8 hours. If you operate a complete time job with a 45 minute commute each way (wake up at 7:30 get home at 5:45) and play for 4 hours a day that is 750 times (or 25 weeks ) of spending your evenings nearly exclusively on runescape.

And averaging playtime that is high is tough you overlook means a day you'd have to do double. Maxing is not even attractive with how much work it takes. I have watched mudkip on YouTube start an ironman a month or 2 before me and max in about a year, he's since started an eventual ironman that is heading towards max while I'm still at the midgame. He is playing with all the same content for the time, making exactly the tired jokes and commentary and it looks like a waste of time. I see his videos sometimes because I used to really enjoy them but now it just looks sad.

What about this debate: Say I played Runescape since 2002. Maxed until RS3 came out, spent my summers grinding my levels out to reach that end game content. I come back later to come across those levels moved to a match I fucking despise. However, Runescape I loved still exists! I have to regrind everything to do what I like doing. Is it incorrect to buy gold with the cash I devote my free time grinding out at work? In order to reobtain levels I earned? Why?

"Is it morally not correct to pay money for some other people to level up your account, because you've achieved the very same levels in a different edition of Runescape". It is a solo MMORPG game. Not teamwork. You're supposed to work in your own account, not cover people because you can't be arsed to do it. If you can not put time in or don't, then like what you could do with the levels and cheap RuneScape gold gear you've got. If you buy the gold via bonds and play with with yourself that's fine. It's not ok, if you use those bonds to pay someone else to do it for you then no.