On the 13th October 2021 Jagex released news that they would be clamping down on real world trade in OSRS and Runescape 3, even more so than they have previously done. You can read the news article for yourself here: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/game-integrity---real-world-trading?oldschool=1 In short, Jagex stated that anyone that is involved in staking or the real world trading (RWT) of gold will be punished by wealth removal, banned accounts or both. "Should any further RWT activity be detected, accounts face possible bans and wealth removal." Also, and maybe more importantly for most, the real world trading involved in the duel arena will immediately be capped in November to just 10M ( 10 Million OSRS ) to stem the flow of large amounts of OSRS Gold (GP) flowing into and out of the underground RWT economy. For some, this will be a big upset as many enjoy the Duel Arena or Sand Casino as many like to call it. On the other side we have hardcore fans that are, and always have been much opposed to the duel arena because of the links to real world trades ( the exchanging of Runescape gold for real world currency ) in the blackmarket. This could have a great effect on the prices of gold after the 10M cap is imposed but the question is will the prices go up, down or remain much the same?
I’m sure hoping it makes gold prices go up. Nicely written article by the way!