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Something being better (or in this case "less bad", let's be honest) than something else which isn't acceptable, doesn't automatically make the better (aka less bad) thing acceptable. TH is, at the end of the day, predatory gambling just like many other lootbox simulators. If only the laws could catch up to the modern standards as quickly as the companies find ways to exploit the customers, the "consequences" wouldn't be as drastic. > )

While what you describe here could certainly happen, the thing is that at this point, removing TH is more than just about removing selling of P2W exp/items; it's also about removing predatory gambling. It's blatantly obvious that Jagex is exploiting its customers with the uncertainty that TH has; let's take a new elite skilling outfit promo as an example. Typically, one such promotion has the promotional items (15 outfit pieces) on yellow or orange slots. A typical customer would probably assume that 75-200 keys would be sufficient to get all the pieces; however, it could easily take many more than that (even a yellow slot prize has sometimes reported to have taken ~100 keys to get), just as it could take a lot less than that. Thus, lucky customers are led to buying more keys than they actually need, and unlucky customers, who might now suffer from sunk cost fallacy, are likely to make yet another big purchase of keys to ensure they get the remaining pieces.

However, if these things were sold in Solomon's store instead at fixed prices, the players could make informed decisions on whether they're worth buying; if the price of e.g. an elite skilling outfit was low, more people would buy it and it'd be less P2W, and if it was high, people would now know it in advance and give it backlash to make the price come down.

> )