Heads up!

Jagex doing some new thing? Might effect botters, might not.

And now, I let Jagex take the floor.

Hello,

I have some exciting news for all of you! While our history with dealing with cheaters tends to be veiled in secrecy in order to be more efficient, I assure you that we wish to shout out about the actions that have been taken against macro users. Let’s face it: we hate cheating as much as you do, if not more. Just look below at some of these statistics concerning our actions against macro developers.

Key macro stats

1, We have a team that work 24/7 against macros both in banning users and breaking the bots.
2, We spend a huge amount of our tech resource as well on combating the issue.
3, We ban hundreds of thousands of people each year for macroing, about half of those banned are paying members.
4, We constantly work on new ways to combat bot makers and users.
5, We also pursue legal routes wherever specific macros have a significant impact on the RuneScape community. In the last 12 months we’ve successfully used legal action against 3 major macro developers, including completely shutting down 2 macros and seriously damaging another.
6, We’re also involved in ongoing legal proceedings against other macro developers.

With this in mind, our investigations team is extremely pleased to talk to you about one or favourite in-game activities: bot busting! If you’re as keen as we are to rid the game of cheaters and rule-breakers, make sure to read on!

How does bot busting work?

Over the past 3 months Jagex’s Investigations team and Community Management departments have been taking a much more aggressive approach against macro users and have been working closely with the Player Moderator community and bot busting player groups actively removing macro users in-game LIVE. Although removing bots is serious business, that doesn’t mean that we can’t make you all take part in the action. And this is where we send our kudos to all of you: the idea came originally from the enthusiasm of our fans and we love to say how happy we are with your dedication and passion. A lot of this energy came from our very own players who originally came up with the concept and have been performing the activity in previous years!

Bot busting in 4 steps:

1, J-mods get together with players;
2, At the start of each event we split up the worlds that we’ll be covering and ensure that we’ve got a presence on each one;
3, Spread to target specific locations and worlds, with a focus on areas where legitimate play is disrupted;
4, Report the bots and start taking names!

Currently, we have gathered to date tens of thousands of accounts in our Bot Busting sessions so far! Of course, this is only one of various ways we deal with cheaters and this number remains a fraction as we undertake a large amount of work behind the scenes.

I would like this opportunity on behalf of the Community Management and Investigations teams here at Jagex to thank all of our players for their continued support to combat macro users at every step. We wouldn’t be here without you, the players, and are very happy to thank you for it.

We’ve attached pictures and summaries of our latest bot busts so you can have loads of information to share with your community!

Want to join in on the fun?

Any player is of course very welcome to join the “Botting Awareness movement” by going right here:INSERT LINK HERE (Taken out due to MPGH's rules). This is a player run thread and event that anyone is very welcome to join. For those who are really keen, some of our staff from Jagex headquarters will be joining the fight on Saturday 14th of May: macro users, beware!

So what are you waiting for? Join the bust and help us to get cracking on some bots!

Remember: “Winners don’t use bots.”

Do feel free to share this information with your communities as we are quite excited about being able to release this information to our fans around the world. If you have any questions or comments, do let us know.

Thanks,

Mod Edu
Jagex Community Management Team"