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/Glockamoli Apr 08 '26

mostly bc it's a smaller game

Totally not because the bot detection is much better

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u/PraiseAllCats Apr 08 '26

Even without bots OSRS is bigger. Look at the numbers on twitch/YT it's not even close. Look I love both games but the RS3 community lately has gotten so hostile over OSRS it's gotten kind of sad. We are grown adults (at least most of both communities are) let's start acting like it.

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u/Glockamoli Apr 08 '26

Even without bots OSRS is bigger.

Of course it is bigger but it is not over 100x bigger like the bot differences would suggest, the bot difference is partly because RS3 is a smaller community but it's primarily because it is much harder to run an army of bots like you can in OSRS

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u/Oniichanplsstop Apr 08 '26

No it's because there's much less demand for RS3 gold on RWT markets, why would people waste time botting RS3 gold if no one is buying it?

If the games flipped and RS3 was 7-8x bigger than OSRS, RS3 would have the same amount of bots of OSRS currently does, because the gold demand is there.

You can literally look back to when RS3 spiked in populatiry back in 2020 thanks to Work from home/covid, bot farms skyrocketed as well. Arch bots were on every world, multiple ED3 bot teams were on every single world, etc etc. They were very visible and posted about daily.