Well, revolt might be too strong of a word, but that's how the topics are named on the RSOF anyway. The bottom line is that multiple merchanting clans just got owned by either Jagex or unexpected GE mechanism while trying to manipulate price of limpwurt roots. Huge losses by huge number of clan merchants resulted in about 3000 posts created in a span of only 2 days on RSOF.
Here are the topics, if you want to see them (though I won't suggest you to even attempt to read 3000 posts):
And here is a short "summary" topic at TruthScape forum.
I personally don't feel any compassion for "poor" clan merchants, even if Jagex violated "market rules" to make their life harder. Price manipulation which is practiced by the merch clans is too close to bug abuse or even organized crime for my liking. And that's not even mentioning the duping part of the whole thing. I would be all for having some kind of unpredictable events influencing GE prices built into the game. Even zero-cycle trading at GE (which I am doing) is too easy and I wouldn't mind it being affected and becoming more risky, but a least it is a solo endevour which is not tied to artificial price manipulation.
What do you think?
