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Jagex. According to A RuneScape Wiki

If the new Golden Party Hats gain value as did the old ones, they'll be worth billions of dollars in the future.
SURE


RuneScape player 120King says (opens in new tab) they started cooking sailfish at 6:40am on Monday. After cooking 4,000 sailfish, it took them four hours to acquire one of the eight shards required to obtain the Golden Party Hat. This piece of gear grants no stats benefits and gives its wearer no stats. They have until 3 January to acquire the other seven shards to obtain an hat that has no benefits and could one day make them RuneScape wealthy.



Party Hats were last available for purchase in the past 20 years. These originals, which give wearers nothing, are now worth billions of gold, making them RuneScape's most important items.



It's a classic case of the logic behind videogame economy The original Party Hats are worth their weight in gold because they're useless. When the "partyhat" items were first distributed during 2001's Christmas event they were "intended to be useless and disposable," says RuneScape developer Jagex. They had no other benefits aside from looking festive. They resembled Christmas crackers paper crowns (opens in a new tab) and a lot of players discarded them following the event.



Jagex did not issue the hats next year, or ever again. As time passed some of the players who kept their Party Hats stopped playing, further decreasing the number of hats available. The hats became a symbol of one's status as an elder player, or because they were scarce and also a sign of a wealthy one.



"The Hats play a pivotal role in the RuneScape economy as investments, cash-placements, staked items, and collectables," says Jagex. According to the RuneScape Wiki, Party Hats actually go for more than 2.1 billion gold. This is just their stated price because it's the limit for a single transaction on RuneScape's Grand Exchange. (A player told me that the blue ones could go for over 100 billion.)



The 2021 Party Hats differ from the 2001 caps for parties. These are Golden Party Hats, whereas the original ones were only available in white, blue, red, green, purple, and yellow. (Correction The truth is that they were pink and not purple, as an account from a player says, but the color was changed in response to a duplication glitch.) The Golden Party Hat will be the symbol of a player's participation in RuneScape's 20th anniversary event, or something to trade but they won't be worth the same as the originals. Each player can only get one Golden Party Hat during the event, so they will remain rare, but players aren't likely to throw their hats this time.



To earn a Golden Party Hat, players must accumulate eight Golden Party Hat Shards and have an active RuneScape membership, which is $11 monthly, or less for players who commit to a 12-month Premier Club membership. Bonds can be used to purchase membership. These are tradable in game items such as EVE Online's Plex. You can earn shards through accomplishing specific tasks like the 'Once Upon a time in Gielinor’ anniversary quest or by purchasing one for 30,000,000 gold. Others are random drops that occur when players are learning skills or participating in another sport.



Jagex says that the "bad luck protection" system should stop anyone playing RuneScape from being left hatless when the event closes on the 3rd of January.



"As you continue to train a skill or complete clue scrolls, the chance of obtaining a shard rises exponentially," says the developer. "Essentially we're hoping that players actively participating throughout the event will be able create their own hat without too much worry."



Some players haven't been able to stop trying to grind Shard drops as fast as possible, such as making breakfast and cooking thousands on thousands of sailfish. Another participant on the RuneScape forum claimed to have killed "2,000 demons in the abyss" without getting a Combat Shard drop, while another player claimed they had the Combat Shard after fighting dark beasts for six hours. We all party in our own way.



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