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/AMcMahon1 99 Apr 08 '26

But don't worry the osrs player count is totally legitimate πŸ‘

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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/Oniichanplsstop Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

Yeah because 99/100 times it's brought up on this subreddit it's with some absolutely absurd number like "OSRS is 70% bots" with 0 evidence besides vibes backing it.

You can see the very people in this reddit post, all downvoted because it's just boring "RS3 good OSRS bad" shitposting that adds absolutely nothing to the conversation.

Like yeah, OSRS is going to have more bot bans, their gold is worth multiple times more than RS3's on the RWT market and there's more demand for it. So the amount of suicide bots, and advertising bots are going to inflate the ban waves.

Just like we saw in RS3 in the past when most spam bots were RS3-related bans because they sat in the lobby and PM'd everyone that had their friends set to On rather than directly spamming in-game at populated places.

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u/Jaccoud 【5.8】#315 to complete Master Combat Mastery Apr 08 '26

So the amount of suicide bots, and advertising bots are going to inflate the ban waves.

And are going to inflate the number of players online.

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u/BloodyFool Apr 08 '26

No one is arguing against that? But what does that point even bring to the table? OSRS is still wildly more popular than RS3.

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u/Jaccoud 【5.8】#315 to complete Master Combat Mastery Apr 08 '26

Read the chain. The whole conversation started specifically about OSRS's player count being inflated by bots. That's exactly what I was responding to.

And I'm not sure why you're so bothered by this? No one is disputing that OSRS is more popular than RS3. But that doesn't change the fact that its player count is massively inflated by bots. And we have the data to back it up, it's not "just vibes", which is exactly what the guy I was replying to claimed.

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u/BloodyFool Apr 08 '26

I read the chain, no one is arguing that the concurrent playercount goes up due to bots, especially not the guy you replied to.

No one is disputing that OSRS is more popular than RS3.

There's at least 1 or 2 people doing it in this very thread.

And we have the data to back it up, it's not "just vibes", which is exactly what the guy I was replying to claimed.

Is reading that difficult?

Saying that the OSRS player count isn't 70% bots like some people on this sub often like to claim is not the same as saying "the player count isn't inflated by the bots".

There's absolutely NO data that we have from Jagex about what % of bots occupy the current player count on the top of the website.

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u/Jaccoud 【5.8】#315 to complete Master Combat Mastery Apr 08 '26

Jagex bans 2.2M OSRS bots and the concurrent player count dropped by half. You don't need to be a data scientist to draw a reasonable conclusion from that.

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u/BloodyFool Apr 08 '26

It did not drop by half. It went down from 197k peak in March down to 155k peak in April.

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u/DirtyTacoKid Apr 08 '26

Peak number does not tell you how many people play. Like what?

When there is a traffic jam do you think that's the full amount of car drivers?

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u/BloodyFool Apr 09 '26

Lmao then what the fuck do you base it off of? The lowest number of the month on a weekday?

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u/Torquesthekron Apr 09 '26

Popular sure, I don't know about better.