Sure there is nothing fundamentally wrong with buyables and nothing basically wrong with gathering, but at Runescape's core it breaks down the doctrine of RS gold when you can just purchase through"slow" RuneScape skills (generally, these are gathering RuneScape skills right?).

I'd assert that divination barely even strayed from this course; it's exceedingly generous to call it a buyable RuneScape skill. There is one buyable method in chaos energy and is not a noticeable xp increase in contrast to the meta methods, and of course CE isn't readily obtained for the general public and most often involves coping with extremely unscrupulous retailers. The whole allure of dividing RuneScape skills into these 2 (we'll ignore combat for today ) categories is they allow RuneScape skills to port elegantly with another (remember back in the day? Mining-smithing, wc-fm, cooking-fishing, farming-herblore, RuneScape skills frequently came in very instinctive and organic artisan-gathering pairs).

Say what you would like about how unappealing the previous methods might be, but at its core that's just what MMORPGs are all about lol. That is what MMOs happen to be about, even though they may not be the most played game genre in this present day and age.

Thus, no, really, I would say that"basically" it is wrong to unite gathering and buyables. Standalone RuneScape abilities are nice (e.g. agility) however they're usually utility RuneScape skills. Imagine if you could to buy RuneScape gold safe just throw cash at runite rocks and double the speed where you would normally obtain 99 mining. Would that be fine to most people? The nearest equivalent to the is about Telos and buying keys along with your gain to twist out a maximum cape... A quick search of the subreddit should tell you it's painfully evident how many players disagree with p2w-style MTX. Buying chronotes isn't as egregious but the ideas are nearly indistinct.