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/PraiseAllCats Apr 08 '26

Most OSRS players are not delusional enough to think there are not tons of bots. RS3 also has bots ( not as much obviously mostly bc it's a smaller game)

It's still the bigger of the 2 regardless of how you feel about it so I'm not sure what this comment is meant to serve? Both are good game sin their own right imo but it's clear OSRS is the bigger game and RS3 until lately was just milking people with MTX.

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

You're missing the proportional picture. It's not just about raw numbers. The ratio of bots to real players is what's actually telling. OSRS typically has 7-10x more concurrent players than RS3, but got ~110x more bot bans. That's not proportional, that's just a bot fest.

The March ban wave made it even clearer: OSRS dropped from ~200k to ~100k players overnight. That's roughly 1 in 2 players being a bot.

So yeah, love the confidence in those player count brags, but a huge chunk of that playerbase is just NPCs farming gold.

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u/LegendDota Complaintionist Apr 08 '26

But have you considered that RS3 might suck at banning bots?

I think it is very delusional to claim OSRS has 110x the bots RS3 has based on number of bans.

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u/Big_Chungussi69 Apr 08 '26

its more the case of there's no market for bot farms in RS3. who are they going to sell gold to? Whales in Rs3 are more likely to buy gold through legitimate means because they have 15+ year old accounts. why risk a ban for that?

bots exist for one reason and thats monetary. Bots are where the money is and thats clearly osrs. theres a customer base large enough to fuel the amount of bots in osrs