Jagex has Given F2P RuneScape to the Botters.

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[SirPugger]

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[Barberbee]

Think the owners of these dodgy general stores get a cut of the gp to keep quiet?

[ThePCguy]

Can confirm as a f2p player, finding a real person is like finding a unicorn. It's honestly kind of depressing, even when you're doing something they can't monopolize to ruin your experience.

[samoaspider]

Meanwhile Jagex flexes record number of players statistics to their investors while all of F2P is just bots lol

[tuulituuli]

Anyone else went straight to w546 to check if the mule is still there just to see 20 guys being there for the same reason?

[knightsolaire]

Bro continuing to drain the mule while rolling the sponsor ad is the funniest shit I’ve seen all month 😂😂😂

[NEntertainment_]

swear to God, I havent played in 2 years and i randomly watched this whole video. it was THAT interesting. Glad to see these bot farm investigations still alive, they're always entertaining. Happy holidays everyone

[ZCasPlays]

The funniest part is going to 546 to not see the bot trading gp, but all the folks that watched the video and wanted their free gp lol.

[wollfary]

The undead druids have the same "cursing" bots training range. It felt like every few minutes while I was ranging there a bot would log-in, start killing the druids. Say the line "fk off" - "Come on" etc, etc and log out.

[nicholaswayne]

At this point Jagex should just hire you as part of the anti cheating team. Give you the ability to view an accounts trade history etc and ability to ban.

[zaneeo]

I find it so crazy that a few years ago i got permabanned for autoclicking high alch yet there is thousands of bots continuously ruining this game and Jagex doesnt give a shit.

[Jed_Rowahnn]

Runescape as a whole really is a shadow of what it used to be. OSRS has robots for like 50% of it's player count, and RS3 is microtransaction hellscape

[og_swag_daddy]

I was giving away gp as a Christmas gift, and it took me damn near 10 minutes each time to find a real nooby player to give it to instead of a bot.

[artobal]

When you're trying to impersonate a bot to intercept mules like that try adding a character to the end of the name instead of changing the number. They may just check the length of the expected username rather than the whole thing. I.E. "purple1224" would look the same as "purple12240", much more likely to work than just changing a number. worked once for me with the zammy wine bots (lazy coding)

[Its_Cannon]

SirPugger is slowly gaining bot farm knowledge for the day he creates the ultimate bot and reveals himself as the true Villian.

[ohokok]

most of the bots ive reported in the last couple months remain unbanned, they are truly not banning anyone right now, i also witnessed a guy real world trade for torva and then also pay someone to do his blood torva after i called him out on it, and he is unbanned. I think its pretty much over for the integrity of this game.

[grbm]

10 years later and no real solutions for bots. In fact, it's only gotten worse. Safe to say they are just letting bots run at this point, probably because it looks good on metrics to show investors.

[xMrWolf]

they should do a f2p purge day where actual players just kill the bots and take the loot

[OntarioMual]

i purposely started botting in hopes of getting banned, i went from 60-91 wc in f2p at oak trees broadcasting 'im a bot you should report me, jagex doesnt do anything' and i was right lol. never banned

[jamesgilboy]

There are also bots in the Edgeville dungeon on F2P. They wear some combo of rune armor and from what I saw, they train melee using the shared XP attack style. Melee is their only stat above 1. No idea what they're training for.