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6. Much of the hacking and scamming was done to fuel the money sold to the gold buyers.
7. Member bots were paid for with stolen credit cards and the banks were going to stop their branch with Jagex because of the amount of stolen money going to Jagex.

8. Jagex was losing money because they had to repay the owners of the stolen credit cards. Not only did they have to pay back the card companies, but had to pay a charge back fee to the bank. Sometimes up to 4 times the amount. Then they have to pay for the bandwidth the bots and farmers used. Then they had to pay accountants and lawyers to figure out what to do. They were losing so much money Jagex might have gone bankrupt - Runescape would have closed down entirely which would mean no trading anyway.
9. Legitimate players would have no longer been allowed to pay with credit cards which would have been the vast majority.

Pking, unbalanced trade and Staking had to go because they were ways that gold could have been transferred to the buyers.
I hope you can see from this why RWT had to be stopped and that there is simply no point in ranting about it.

Here is a list of reasons as to why real world trading had to be stopped:

1. It wasn't fair on other players who had to work for their cash while the lazy players got it for almost nothing.
2. Bots swamped all the trees, rocks and fishing spots making it slower for the real players.
3. Much of Jagex's staff was being directed entirely to stopping it. This meant that there were less updates that players might actually enjoy like quests and new skills.
4. Players would find the game too easy if they were able to get skills to 99 and rare armour with no trouble. They'd get bored very quickly and quit.
5. Many players were being unfairly banned - mistaken for real world trading when they were giving items to friends.

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