Is Jagex Finally Fixing The Botting Problem? (OSRS)

is JX finally doing something about the Bing problem so my bank value keeps going up and up and up and I haven't exactly been making money you know what I mean I recently did an economy video because I was shocked with how much my bank had went up and it shocked me with some of the items that have been pretty much flatlined forever are actually going up in value or even pvm related items have skyrocketed really one that really shocked me is the Twisted bow is now 1.7 billion GP and as well as bonds are 10 plus million now I will leave a link in the description to the economy video that I made if you want to check it out but a bunch of these items that have been either stable for a while or pretty much flatlined like some of the Skilling items have really risen in price so is JX doing something I am a little bit late to this but on February 22nd they released this uh little blog here about Bots bans and appeals an update so we're just going to quickly cover this today so following recent improvements to various pieces of wilderness content the discussion around Bots and how we've been handling them has become an increasingly prevalent uh conversation as we know this topic is much bigger than Wilderness content but with Undead pirates on the horizon we'd like to share information on what we've been doing to tackle these issues as well as offer some insight into General improvements we we're making to provide some reassurance ahead of us talking about the update in more detail so let let us get straight into the Hot Topic why are we updating content for botg gold Farmers the answer to this is that it's always an arms race dealing with Bots the reality is that as fast as we ban them new Bots are made there are hundreds even thousands of cheaters some independent some organized who Target Old School uh we continue to improve our anti-cheating capabilities and removals across act anti-cheating team uh game Tech data science and legal takedowns it's a cross team effort we're constantly working to keep ahead of this race and we're actively working on bigger um initiatives to tackle bod in which we hope to be able to share more information on with you soon until then what should we do both our player base and the content development team are extremely passionate about the game and we don't want legitimate players to miss meaningful updates because of those not playing by the rules sure there are things we can do to make content harder to bot or make it not worthwhile to bot uh example would be teleport delays log out delays scalling for loot higher minimum fees but these uh come at a detriment for regular players as we made extremely clear by the Rev caves teleport delay earlier in 2023 um it's a delicate balance for us as the content team because we still want to deliver meaningful updates that serve players from all over the game uh historically PVP has been an extremely underserved part of the community and we are actively working to resolve that the positive feedback we've received from players has farther strengthened our belief that the work we're doing is welcomed and we'll continue to provide content for these players despite the struggles we face when dealing with Bad actors we owe that much to our players to give some context in the form of data here are some ban stats so last year we banned over 6.9 million accounts that's crazy when you really think about that 6.9 million accounts um so far in 2024 each week on average we ban over 67,000 old school RuneScape accounts that's another really high number especially every week of these accounts 2800 are for botting popular boss related content so I'm assuming zra or cth I don't even know what else but that's a solid amount each week around 1.5 trillion GP is removed from the old school RuneScape economy and each week around 900 billion GP is removed from the old oh okay so each week 1.5 Trill is removed from the RuneScape 3 economy and each week 900 billion is removed from the old school economy so they are actively working at this that's crazy imagine Bing RS3 who would bought that uh now we know that you're thinking but jagx what about the high scores there are so many accounts that look like Bots uh why aren't you doing anything this is an area we pay attention to but our efforts can go unnoticed as mentioned above we regularly ban over 2,800 accounts a week for botting popular boss related content but how are they getting such high KC in the first place not all these accounts are Bots some of them played uh by hand for many years they might be a gold farmer alt funding another characters game others uh May then go on to uh enrage Eng sorry engage in Real World Trading or other illicit activities this means that it's not a simple case of just Banning them uh we must have a reason to ban players and we back those reasons up with data in the end uh we do get these Bad actors but it takes time some of them that it's kind of a weird thing because some of them they could just be like legitimate hand players that are just built to kill Zara and that's all they do right and they either Real World Trade the gold which is an illicit activity which they could be banned for but if they are just funding an ALT or another character or whatever you know their friend whatever it might be then I guess that's okay but if they're selling the gold uh that's still banable no in addition addition to this there is currently a problem with the high scores in relation to band accounts um we're all aware that some of our content systems are not up to the level we require or that you deserve the high scores are no exception some accounts that are banned are not being removed from the high scores uh when they should be and work is Ono going to solve this the anti-cheating team are working with the engine team on trying to find a consistent um and enforcable way to remove these players from the high scores so that the real players can secure spots note that this applies to all content in the game including things like corrupted Gauntlet the act and game engine teams are investigating manual removal from from the high scores for accounts that have already been banned should be banned or for any reason should not still be appearing on the high scores okay so this would remove all those red flags like the legitimate players that are either Real World Trading or selling to their alts or whatever they're doing um if they aren't actually botting and uh the the actual Bots now will be manually removed so it'll it'll be like a lot less right so all the zra the corrupted Gauntlet all those ones should have a lot less of those players on the highest scores anyways anti-cheating improvements we'd like to take a moment to talk about some of the areas we're focusing on this year and how that may impact our players the first area we'd like to talk uh about is uh so-called false bands if you're active on social media you've likely encountered players asking for their bands to be reviewed stating that they were falsely applied we want to reiterate that not everything you see on social media is fact uh we thoroughly review bands before they're applied and in almost all cases these false bands are in fact applied correctly with the appropriate reporting evidence to back up the action taken all of the bans we apply approximately 0.36% of them are uh quashed when appealed so far in 2024 only 38 accounts were banned incorrectly and these offenses were moved underlining the point that not every claim you see on social media is correct that's very interesting only 38 accounts this year so far were actually false banned the rest were were legitimate bans that's that's crazy um most of the recent appeals we're seeing are a direct result of us cracking down on illegal client usage um these players are consistently going against our terms of service and using these clients to either bought or gain an unfair advantage in the areas in all areas of the game since 20202 we have been consistently improving our methods of detecting these players and we will continue to punish those uh who opt to break the rules in the last 30 days alone we've already banned over 3,000 players for this type of activity so I believe the only three clients you are allowed to use is the vanilla client obviously and then we've got run light and HD yeah if we look at this right here so these are the only clients permitted so yeah run light hdos and then obviously the vanilla one um that said we're not perfect mistake do happen and there are improvements that can be made so let's talk about how this is being handled moving forward we've added even farther additional checks for account banss banss are being checked and verified before any action is taken we hope uh this will continue to reduce the small volume of false positives we encounter that's great each day the anti-cheating team review a random selection of bands that are appealed for a variety of reasons these checks are um invaluable as they help us to improve the accuracy of our detection methods and go a long way to ensure um Future Bands applied for the same reason are correct um we are now doing more of this than ever before with a wider range of variety to capture as much information as possible lastly we'd like to address the ban appeal system as a whole while it serves its purpose in allowing a way for players to just uh dispute when a ban has has been applied it doesn't offer much in terms of transparency and we feel that it could benefit from improvements especially when ban appeals are denied while we can't share more on this right now uh we can confirm that work is now underway to review how ban appeals are handled and we hope uh to have more information on this later in the year uh we hope this post offers some reass reassurance regarding current situations and look forward to Future updates from the player support and anti-cheating teams throughout 2024 the old school team well I don't know about you guys but I believe that is incredible news um just the whole bing bing situation has just been awful lately throughout the past few years I've seen items that used to be super profitable like the blood R for example you know pretty much crashed to where you could sell it in ald for the same price as you can you know you don't make money doing it anymore or random other items just completely crashing like zus skilles and a bunch of other things so I really do believe that this would be a great thing for the game now a lot of people might say that Bots are quote unquote good for the game because Skilling supplies will be cheaper now yeah that that that is true of course like your logs will be cheaper so you can get Fletching and whatever and you can get your fish for cooking and all this but realistically at the end of the day it is not good for the game the economy is so up and down all the time and certain items become basically irrelevant because they're farmed so much by gold Farmers I remember back in the day used to make money mining pure Essence and look at it now it's also just a cooler game when you walk around and you can actually talk to everybody and you don't you're not around a hundred different computer programs trying to do the same activity as you kind of feels like a a bad game in in in that sense like it's almost like you're playing with NPCs well good on JX I'm glad they're finally doing something about this it's been a long time in the making but if they can even just solve this issue this year it would be one of the best updates of the entire year and I'm super excited for that and really hope that they can pull it off but anyways thank you guys so much for watching the video today and I will catch you in the next one see you [Music] later [Music] n

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 27 2024