Market Price Stability to Return

After Jagex wielded their mighty sword and banned over 19,000 runescape bot accounts and banned a further 2,300 players who bought runescape gold online, there is hope that price stability will make a return to the market sooner rather than later.

If price stability returns, merchanting will become a more reliable and less risky method of making money on runescape. However, if price fluctuations continue with the uncertainty in the marketplace, merchanting will retain a high risk.

It is assumed that 19,000 or so of the banned accounts were simply money farms - gathering resources to sell ingame for gold that was later sold via websites. The 19,000 bots caused 2,300 further players to be banned due to having been guilty of buying runescape gold for cash.

I can understand players wanting to get things within the game, however, buying runescape gold is really defeating the point of the achievement - it is wrong, it wasn't earned it was bought.

Hopefully prices within runescape do return to normal levels where skill based players can be rewarded for having high skills and merchanters can be rewarded for their patience in gathering up resources from a string of suppliers.

Overall, the amount of accounts banned is likely to increase over the next few weeks and until the bot users move to a different game, there will still be some instability and uncertainty in the runescape marketplace.