The Game Dev Who Stole From His Players

Jed Sanderson, also known as Mod Jed, almost got away with the heist of a lifetime. Employed by Jagex, the company that makes Runescape, he was able to access back-end developer tools to hack into players accounts, and make off with their hard-earned gold. Given the liquidity of Runescape gold, he could have easily flipped this for over $250,000 - but that isn't all. Many people in the Runescape community believe he also helped leak info to his clan, Reign of Terror, to help them lock down the highly-lucrative revenant caves, as well as he providing information that could well have lead to their victory in multiple official Deadman mode tournaments. In this video, we explore the allegations made against him - and the misbehavior that led to his firing.

00:00 - Intro
03:04 - Leaking Information
06:26 - DDoSing
08:33 - Stealing $250,000 Worth of Gold

[robertoazuaje]

As a Venezuelan who loves tales of MMORPG drama, I'm very interested in the whole, "Venezuelan mercenaries revolting against their masters" story

[Crembaw]

This jed dude looks like an AI generated the ‘world’s best mmo player’ and then got insulted for doing so.

[TheAMaazing]

ok but do you have 99 woodcutting though

[leon]

He appears in the video a few times but Mod Mat K was a real one when he was with the company. He now has his own channel where he creates some of the most unique and entertaining Old School RuneScape content on YouTube in which he exploits mechanics to do some of the most ridiculous stuff I've seen in the game.

Edit; the channel I'm referencing is actually Mod Ronan's channel, I got mixed up and I can honestly say I'll never live this down. Matt K is still a real one though.

[zefzima]

Ex Mod Mat K said Jed was one of the only people he ever met where he saw evil in his eyes. Disturbing coming from such a grounded guy.

[Ciborium]

I can't believe a reasonable, rational judge allowed Jed to change his name to avoid the consequences of his long history of malfeasance. He should justly be blacklisted from any job involved with computers, gaming, technology, or any level of trust.

[paulbuksmann]

You missed the part where mod jed coded a secret mechanic into the revenant caves which not even other jmods knew about. If you killed monsters in there while skulled they dropped better loot. The only people mod jed told about this was RoT. This was not discovered by the player base until much later.

[whatfunvrs]

This felt like a documentary version of the many scandals vids and I loved it

[Jack-qdxo]

I worked with several ex Jagex staff members and god, I should get them to write up their wild tales

[funguy]

His actions are borderline illegal, he should be thankful that he avoided jail time, but he has audacity to sued jagex 🤯

[connor]

The UK justice system gets a lot of rightful shit thrown at it, but forcing a company to pay a guy who stole 250, 000 dollars worth of data from that company's clients and placing the blame onto other employees for wrongful termination is a deep low.

[kyleo]

I don't even play these kind of games but kudos makes everything interesting thanks for the amazing videos

[Pickle-oh]

Why did "Jagex, the company that secretes runescape" get to me so hard

It's just pretty funny but I'm laughing like it's godfuck hilarious

[JamesMiller]

One of your best videos ever IMO, love the new style of just focusing in on one scandal, good shit king <3

[perturbedbatman]

Well, I definitely want to hear about the apparent socialist revolt by those Venezuelan players.

[noisepollution]

Runescape (both RS3 and OSRS) are basically an infinite well of content for the Many Scandals series. Love it, hope to see more in the future

[BirnieMac]

One of the neatest parts about clans controlling rev caves was the protection racket

They would take like 10mil or something for a specified timeframe (e.g. a week) and they would allow you to farm the cave and kill anyone who wasn’t paying for a spot; you’d more than make your money back because of the lack of competition

[FarkOSRS]

There actually was a hidden mechanic which gave you mroe loot from the rev caves if you were skulled. Nobody knew about this except RoT and the other devs never actually planned on adding this mechanic so Jed was the only one who knew about it

[charredolive]

I love me some Runescape history. It was a cornerstone of gaming in my childhood

[draculactica]

This is like franchise #3 that I've never engaged with, but watched and greatly enjoyed your videos about. Your vids are so much fun, and very well researched and produced.