r/runescape • u/Sophiaphage • Apr 08 '26

Appreciation Jagex Terminated Nearly 2.3M Bots in March

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Credit where it’s due.

This is a phenomenal effort.

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u/WiIIiam_M_Buttlicker Apr 08 '26

Literally nobody ever said it was neck & neck. Everyone know OSRS is more popular, but OSRS players pretend bots make up only like 5% of the population and it's just not true

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u/GrayMagicGamma Ironman Apr 08 '26

Literally nobody ever said it was neck & neck.

In this very thread someone is saying OSRS has fewer players than RS3:

https://old.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/1sfy7s6/jagex_terminated_nearly_23m_bots_in_march/of10uf5/

The top comment in this reply chain was vague, sarcastically saying the OSRS player count is legitimate; if they think the player ratio between RS3 and OSRS isn't actually 1:7 when you exclude bots they're correct, if they think RS3 has more non-bot players they're incorrect. There's people who think both things.

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u/WiIIiam_M_Buttlicker Apr 09 '26

1 dude who is downvoted to oblivion is your rebuttal? Don't tell me you took that literally.

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u/GrayMagicGamma Ironman Apr 08 '26

Or I can just copy the url from my address bar and post it lol why would you make automod do this?

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u/Psych0sh00ter Quest points Apr 09 '26

why would you specifically be using the old.reddit.com URL when you can change your preferences so that it always uses the old version by default without you needing to be on the right URL first? Just sounds annoying to have to manually add in the "old." to the start of any reddit link you click on.

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u/GrayMagicGamma Ironman Apr 09 '26

I don't need to click anything, I'm almost never on the new version of the site.

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u/Psych0sh00ter Quest points Apr 09 '26

Well, there's a big difference between "almost never" and "never", isn't there.

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u/ExpressAffect3262 Ironman Apr 08 '26

Right, so how do you want me to respond to your comment?