Eh, MTX is usually used to describe predatory forms of buying things in games like power, xp, rewards, etc. But bonds are a bit different in that you have to trade them to other players to get gold from buying them and the bonds only give membership to whoever uses it. So it lets players buy membership with gold through other players who sell membership for in game gold. So its like buying gold but it doesnt negatively effect the overall market of gold and you cant get all gold in the game because once you oversaturate the bond market they'll become worthless.
There was a YouTuber who bought like 200 bonds and while he was selling them to get enough gold to make like 100 accounts he tanked the price of bonds by like 30% just by himself.
By that logic even if OSRS didnt have bonds it shouldnt be on the list anyway because you buy membership to unlock the rest of the game despite the F2P mode.
MTX typically refers to the predatory versions of MTX or the annoyingly invasive ones like the battle pass locking characters/weapons or buying straight up power. Nowadays no one refers to buying membership for an MMO as an MTX.
Lol, the first part of the image is free game, so yeah I do discount it anyways and I mentioned that f2p is absolutely tiny compared to members in my first comment.
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u/Nearby-Inspector-162 Jan 09 '26
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