[cynest]

I remember when that happened. Cancelled my sub immediately afterwards. The reasoning was to kill real money trading by any means possible. The problem with runescape at the time was that the economy started to revolve around using alchemy to transmute mainly items into gold, adding new money to the system, and each step along the way was incredibly repetitive and easily bottable, resulting in a feedback loop. I'm not quite sure why Jagex thought their solutions were the best available, seeing as fixing all prices hurts the entire economy unnecessarily.