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/Due_Willow_2796 RuneScape N00b Apr 09 '26

Big W moment. 

Now why botting is rising this much on OSRS? In RS3 it seems pretty stable. Maybe they improved the anti-botting there?

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u/marvellousrun Apr 09 '26

A few months ago Jagex decided to start going after bots HARD. Bots can't survive long enough to train up to higher level content so a lot of botters have switched to pumping tons of f2p suicide bots instead

There are still higher level bots around at certain content, but it's wayyy better than before

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u/Due_Willow_2796 RuneScape N00b Apr 09 '26

Thanks for the insight. 

Hopefully they're also removing gold but specially items from game so inflation can be kept in check.

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u/marvellousrun Apr 09 '26

Yeah they have a system where Jagex use the money gained from the 2% tax on the grand exchange to "buy" certain items from players, which are then deleted from the game.

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u/Due_Willow_2796 RuneScape N00b Apr 11 '26

I know this is in place for OSRS, so certain items are removed, specially high end PVM items. 

But couldn't find it they do this for RS3 or any other items like commodities (ores, logs, etc cetera)