Modern Day RuneScape

The problem with Bots at the moment isn't just within F2P, it is P2P too.

The rumour I hear circulating most is that JaGeX won't ban P2P bots because they pay membership fees - and that matters more to them than the fact that these players are cheating, and making the gaming experience unpleasant for everyone else.

However this theory cannot apply to the F2P bots because they don't pay anything, what they do however is rack up the account numbers. So when JaGeX claim to have 'X Million Registered Accounts', not everyone knows that half of them are probably F2P bots.

I don't know if it was in the video above or the one that one user posted in response to this one on YouTube, but it shows a Player Mod 'cleansing' the G.E of bots, then they just seem to re-appear almost straight away (with new accounts).

This is the way RSC ended - in the beginning it was a brilliant game, everyone loved the retro graphics and communities that RSC had, until bots started creeping in. You go to RSC now and 99% of users are bots, the 1% are those who remained behind because they like the old style RuneScape.

The difference with RSC bots and RS2 bots is that RSC bots don't advertise - although that's probably because hardly anyone plays that version. The RS2 bots DO advertise, and it's just heart-breaking, as a Vet, to see the game falling into dis-repair. I would happily sacrifice a month of no updates if JaGeX found a way to FULLY RESOLVE the bot problem and find a way of never letting them back into the game.