Runescape has a better economy then GW, how come?

i don't know about easyier pve, ever tried HM dungeons?!?

you worked for the money to buy the game, because the game isnt free.

if you play professional football, you train for months because in order to win, you have to work, because winning isnt free.

if you want a car, you dont steal it, because then you're a thief, therefore you work for it.

last time i checked, nothing comes for free. you call this a game, fine, but if everyone got everything automatically, no one would play, because there would one, be no challenge, and two, be no seperation in those that take it more seriously, or competitivly, than those that are casual, or even totally in the dark about the game.

get real.

The Runescape Economy is far from good. Even though I barely play now, I know about the new updates with the grand exchange and Jagex has messed over every items price in the entire game.

and I don't know how you can say guild wars economy is bad stating that one thing can be so cheap and another so much. Where in Runescape, you can pay 555M (which is years of farming) for an item and as low as 3k for other stuff. I would not call this a good market.

o, ya, and runescape now sucks more than it used to cause they took away pking and made a anti scam trading thing.

my brother plays it ok!!!

Runescape sucks, so it doesn't matter.

Huh?

You play a game to have fun, that is why you buy it.
You do not buy a game to do tedious work that you do not like.

Changing a game into work is stupid. Almost as bad as your analogies. Seriously dude, they are BAD.

the economy is fine the way it is in my view...

dont know how people are saying this, is it because of the rare skins for are high price?? I dont get it I mean at the end of the day skins will end up having the same mods as one you can buy for cheaper price...

And that's what annoys many people complaining about the economy, I'll bet: no way to get rich by hoarding things people need in order to compete at anything beyond the most basic levels... (which also, of course, would have the side-effect of cutting down on the competition to their own characters when it comes to PvP)

wrong runescape is autopilot fighting

Wanna know why the GW economy is bad?

Because too many people like all of us here are spending so much time whining about GW's problems when you could be trading/farming.

Really, with all due respect, there are too many whiners. Sit down for an hour or two - farm - earn money.

Cheers.

Oh and btw, Runescape is the worst MMO to ever come across the internet, and doesn't even deserve to be compared to GW. So don't.

not directed at you per se, but you bring up a point..

I think if you want to play a computer game about skill, you can either play a strategy game (turn-based so you can think it out), or you can go and play a game where you actually have to aim at your targets - Tabula Rasa is close, and any FPS. The strategy games actually take into account economy as well.

The outside joke about GW is you don't even have to run to your targets. You can literally select a target and let the computer run to it for you (well when it doesn't get stuck). I don't mind that, but don't think there's a lot more skill involved. Even WoW is not an aiming game, you merely have to face your opponent.

EDIT: In fact, you can download America's Army without payment.

You can say anything is a fact online and someone will be dumb enough to believe it.

I was being sarcastic. But the mobs in GW are seriously stupid as all get out.

Guild wars has a "bad economy", as you say, because it doesn't need an economy at all.

If right this instant all player trading was disabled, a completely new player could play just fine and get max armor and weapons very easily during the course of normal gameplay with little or no grind. Any use of in game trading is purely optional.

and runescape doesnt? i quit the game ALONG time ago and i started in like 1997. i had full party hats which according to ppl that still play is like the panda equivalent of runescape. early start in any game = gg. (shortly after i realized though i sold the account for 300 usd)

um i played since may 05 and it never reached that high. sup absorb reached 100k each, and the highest other sup runes reached were around 20-35. the highest merchant items during that time were sigils, sup vigors fluctuating at around 40k, and sup monk runes.

Keep in mind that GW is a very evolving game, it is far from static and that makes the market very volitile.

Changes not just to skills, but new skins, new types of mods for items and perfect salvage kits, changes to where items drop and the additions of Green items and end of game items/BMP items.

All of this just added to an echonomy that was shaky at the best of times due to the problem of how to unload items you no longer wanted. People could not sell items to merchents, or rather could not get real value from doing so, therefore they flooded the market with all sorts of items of every possible description. When GW started you could play for over a month without ever having a max item drop for you, not because they were rare but because they dropped late in the game. Now you can get them for practically nothing at the very first city you can access storage from, via another char or people that will sell max items for 100g wich is double what the merchants offer.

I have great hopes that GW2 will have a much more stable echonomy and at the same time allow for some flexibility.

http://www.investorwords.com/2736/law_of_supply.html

What's wrong with the economy?

what constitutes a "bad economy" personally i think GW has a great economy, everything is cheap, i can get almost anything i want for very little cash, and its not hard to make cash. i think that the people that are QQ'ing about a bad economy are just sore about not being able to jack their prices up. if you want a expensive economy, go play Wow, or eve. leave the cheap economy to GW. leave it alone its fine.

The OP's definition of having a "better economy" is to make farming gold easier, apparently. That's a bad definition.

If the economy is so bad, I wonder why I never run out of money. I spend what I have rather freely and there always seems to be more of it available. If having the money to always get what I need is the result of a poor economy, I am in full favor of a poor economy.