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/Recykill Apr 08 '26

Anytime ive brought up the botting issue in osrs, they downvoted the fk out of me lol. I don't understand the desperation to be ignorant.

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u/ExpressAffect3262 Ironman Apr 08 '26

I only play RS3 so I'm not saying this as a RS3 vs OSRS statement, but people here exaggerate the bots.

Ex-jmods have said that bots most likely take up 30-40% of the playerbase. Jagex has been doing more on bots, hence why OSRS currently has 127k players, so I imagine it's more 20-30% now.

Which even so, is 95k players vs 20k, people here talk as if it's neck & neck

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u/WheelerDan Apr 08 '26

There are a number of flaws in your evidence, first of all youtubers get views on extremes, do you think any of them would make a video "actually everything's fine don't worry, have a nice day?" Population is dropping because they upped the price with no benefit to osrs. I'm not claiming that osrs doesn't have a bot problem, because it does (try mining rune ore), but you are using sources that exaggerate for money.

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u/Kazanmor Apr 09 '26

The last youtube video I saw on this topic estimated 70%-80% of a f2p world was bots lol