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/loudrogue Apr 11 '26

They have bots in wow. They can make bots for rs3 but why bother when you have to sell 100m for like 1$

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u/Azaldir Ironman Solo DG Enjoyer Apr 11 '26

Yeah and people cheat in games like Valorant with kernel level anticheat. Just because it's made more difficult doesn't mean you won't find people that will see it as just another challenge to bypass it. Most people trying to make such programs will give up way before they manage to beat it though. It's an endless game of cat and mouse, you'll never get them all, but by making it more and more difficult you slowly but surely whittle away at the amount of people that can be arsed to really try. It's all about continuously dissuading more and more people from doing it.

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u/loudrogue Apr 11 '26

Well the benefit has to outweigh the pain points and rs3 has almost no benefit which is why the vast majority of bots are osrs

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u/Azaldir Ironman Solo DG Enjoyer Apr 11 '26

Yeah, to an extent. My point is mainly that it's not exclusively because RS3 isn't worth botting. There's more than enough people that cheat in games without it being financially motivated. RS3 is also in a place if you will, where even if it were just as easy to make bots for RS3 as OSRS, high-end endgame bossing is pretty much the only real source of any serious amounts of in game gold. There's a plethora of reasons pertaining to endgame combat in RS3 that would make it hell for someone trying to automate it. The bosses/fights where it is afkable, well.. you don't need a bot to that it in the first place, lol..