CEO confident it will prevail in legal wrangle with cheat-bot creators
The CEO of Jagex has insisted no stamina has been lost in its war against those who cheat on its game Runescape.
Earlier today it was revealed that Jagex had lost its bid for a preliminary injunction against the makers of a third-party bot allowing players to cheat in the popular MMO.
But CEO Mark Gerhard is confident of success in the end.
“This was merely a interim hearing for an injunction,” he told Develop today.
“Jagex is confident that, after all the facts have come to light, it will prevail in this case”.
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Impulse Software, the makers of various game hacks, threw a spanner in Jagex’s business plan with ‘iBot’ – an autopilot program that allows Runescape characters to level-up without players tending to the game.
Jagex argued that iBot infringed copyright works in Runescape, though its legal bid hit a brick wall due to various legal complexities.
“Cheaters harm the Runescape community and Jagex is committed to pursuing cheaters to the fullest extent allowed by law,” added Gerhard.
“Botting is in violation of the RuneScape terms and conditions and all Botting accounts are permanently banned from the game”.
Recently Jagex has went from banning players caught cheating (using bots) to rolling back their experience totals. What is very odd is that they refuse to not only publicly admit this, but hide these questions when asked on their forums. Many have confirmed this (see youtube).
I honestly think that botting is wrong, but with a game that take 10 months to accomplish something, I use bots, there is absolutely no way in the world that you can have fun in Runescape without money, I just skip the hard part and get to the fun. Even if you bot, it takes no less ammount of time, but you do not have to attend to it, which is the point, we are technically still playing the game and paying for it, the bot is not breaking any rules, other than being a bot. I don't think there is anything wrong with it.
