I’ve asked this before and it has never been satisfactorily answered.

Why do you people continue to play and pay for a game that you obviously hate? It’s expensive (approaching the fees for more popular MMOs like WOW and SWTOR). This sub is one long complaint list. And it’s not like it’s well optimized for such a graphically primitive graphics. Hell, It lags on my high end machine. But, for me,it’s a good time waster.

Jagex has been bought out by adventure capital company. Like other gaming companies who’ve gone from being gamer owned, now it’s all about the money. They have no incentive to change. The people complaining are still buying the loot boxes. The people who are complaining are still buying memberships at $13 a month or $120 a year (Cdn). They have no incentive to change.

Now here’s the opposite side of the coin where your damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The owners are venture capitalists. They care about one thing: making money. If the game starts to lose money, they don’t have any incentive to spend money to improve it. Here’s what VCs do she a company starts to lose money: they either throw money at it to save it. The money is well spent if they they realize why it is losing money and direct efforts to fix it. However that usually costs a lot of money and it not worth the effort, especially if the solution involves if they have to give up something that makes them money, like getting rid of MTX.

Sooooo what happens to companies who owned by VCs that start losing money? They shut them down and write it off on taxes.

There’s your conundrum. Either way you’re either way you’re going to be unhappy.

So, if countries get rid of the MTX loop hole they are going to find another way to gouge you or they shut down.

OOOOOOOOR, you exercise a little self control and just ignore the MTX and just play the game. The transactions take nothing away from the game.