good for jagex but to bad they don't do anything for people that are hacked in game and loss 5 years of items, bye runescape

it's nice to see Jagex going this far and is actually trying to get the players back into the game, but they really should help people that got hacked in-game by other players.

First of all, good on Jagex for getting this sorted. However, I am worried that the focus will shift from levelling accounts quickly to hacking existing accounts. I've noticed more players in my clan complaining of being hacked and little done about it.

Runeslayer is weak, btw great job Jagex

botting has affected the game in a very grievous way because a lot of players have quit due to the value of runescapes currency is directly affected with the bot and because gold farmers only have one goal to make money they are willing to ruin the game for millions of other players who play legitimately all in all good one on jagexs part

at least half of the bots should be gone now...

So agree with James..you are not the only one

I'd like to know what damages were caused by the bot developers, if anything they encouraged people to buy membership

Good job Jagex. The people who are "hacked" are keylogged and need a good antivirus. they go to bad runescape websights and download a virus that remembers the password they type in.

LOL, this is total and utter crap. I've never even heard of "ibot" looll, ohwell i'm still botting and making a mint, UMAD FAGEX? you didn't stop shit with your nuke lulz

6 Figures? Unless they made about 6 Figures from it then by all means but If you're going to ruin someones life I think you should think twice. Still botting and always will be ;)

I would have to say good job Jagex on winning the fight against botters. But you are a little late. The botter's community have already ruined the game to where a player like me would probably never come back to RS. I have played since the time RSC was still available to players. Good fight but to little to late.

You're still nuking them, even after the nuke has been launched. Woot- go team Jagex!

One big remark... The court didn't rule anything, it was an agreement between the parties (brothers ran out of money). Judge didn't actually say whether it was illegal or not.

Very good Jagex, but I agree with a lot of other comments. What are you going to do about people being hacked from other players? I understand that you can't have proof of anyone being hacked, but what are we supposed to do? :/

@james agreed lost full drag 3 times to hacker in madison,wisconsin (tracked ip)and a dfs

It's not Jagex's fault that people compromise their account security. People have been missing their security as of recent, and have not been running regular scans. It's not the fault of Jagex, that they can't keep their computer secure.
If Jagex had the security flaw, then everyone in the top 1000 would be hijacked.
Jagex need the co-operation of their player base to keep their accounts secure, and to alert them of any hijackings via the account security forum.

Jagex broke laws to get to where they are now. And they know it. iBot should not be in this situation because of Jagex breaking the law.

Jagex are a legitimate company, and never broke any laws. Please re-assess the situation, as you are clearly drunk. :P

Jagex do tell people that they should only visit the official runescape website- (runescape.com)
They do also tell people to change their passwords, run scans, and check the URL before they log in. It's not their fault that not everyone does this. As for the phishing websites, they also have provided an email for people to report the websites at. Think smart.

All these people com[plaining about being hacked, its your own fault. youve either downloaded a virus or given someone info, its not jagex's fault you got hacked. Only you're to blame.

Congrats on the win. Even with the 6 digit win, it still would've costed a 6 digit number just to win.

99.9% of the people who get hacked have gone to a website promising rs million or whatever and punched in thier pass and username

Account hacking is a major Issue what ever you do you will get hacked someday my computer is more than clean and remain unhackable and 1 of my 4 account has been hacked they use to say it's a virus and all the bullshit they can say to blame you, make you feel bad and make you say "maybe my fault".
The tools bar from jagex has a malaware in it if you own it delete it and clean your temp file ASAP if you do a spyware scan you will find a dealio... malaware.
The game security is way too weak the password don't take care of caps and even if you have a pin on your bank in game the hacker will bypass it a keylogger is easy to detect but most of them requiere an instalation so be carefull on what you download, Rare are the keylogger who take screenshot and send them without your knowledge. To be honnest I don't plan to pay for that game anymore not even to play 4 for free they lost my support with their blame... Link you account with face book is an error to anyone who use a common password they can pass through your facebook account to login your your account I think that annough said about account hacking jagex fail at it.

you guys are retarded just making it to where you lose customers retards

theirs only a few reasons why your account was probably hacked. when you bought rs gold or other related services your account details were sold by that 'company' or you in any way shape or form gave out your password to someonelse or your password was "123 runescape" etc.... idiots. so stop blaming jagex for your cheating and play fair.

i dont see how they hurt runescape at all, think about it. you dont wana play runescape when your a low lvl. also you dont want to play if your poor. runescape bot's made people wana play, they would hope people lvl so they would wana play. also helped them get some cash.. noone like's playing when your poor..

Great job and congratulations JaGeX, this was a long and hard won battle but it was worth it in the end. And to all of you getting hacked, I don't see how it's their fault, most of the time it's either you clicking on a faulty link or just having bad luck and a bad anti-virus. To those of you complaining about the game, go away and stop following any news on it, it's rather simple. Again, nice job JaGeX, but there are some other things to patch up that I'm sure you're aware of, so get ready for the next round, because people just can't be satisfied.

@hi mom,
You feel it when you earn money and level up on your own, jackass. Makes the game way more fun. I'm level 75 with over 2 mil and i started on tutorial island like very other REAL RS player.

Main problem is people thinking botting is the same as actually gaining the levels. The distinction between actual levels up and botting to them seems to be blurred. TBH tis a nice feeling levelling up, because you see something you earnt happen.

To those who got hacked. 99.9% of cases, being hacked if your own fault. If you botted (therefore signing over the password to your account), chances are, they stored it on record and when the bot nuke happens, they harvested for free gold to sell online. That's a whole different matter too, the RWT market largely drives all of this...

ok they took on one bot company big woop do they not realise there are many more in circulation including the people who write their own pesonal scripts you will never fully control it, if i did a google search right now with "rs bot" look howmany have come up its amazing that jadex think theyve solved it this is only the beginning unless they find a fool proof way to stop outside scripts from running on rs.

but what most of you don't get is that if you get hacked it's either a lie to scam money or you gave away your info at a fake rs site

Am I the only one a little sad that pots/food/skilling supplies are all now seriously expensive due to this? Bots never affected me negatively, mostly in a positive way.
lvl 136 btw

yes the prices went up because the resorces arnt getting raped which gives people a chance to level skills, jadex seemed to know what they were doing but they need to find a way to stableise the g.e, the mercher's raise the price of everything. and btw sorry about the spelling

Now if only they could do this with all the big rsps servers making money of what jagex made.

not worth trying...people will always bot

Oh but they did, they illegally seized documents of people who purchased the bots, and illegally sent them an email, a phone call, etc, it was presented it court, they could have walked out of there the winners if it hadn't been for their lawyers telling them to back down.

Hmm... I played runescape for 7 years and quit this year because I just got bored. I never botted in my entire life, I'm going to admit i've tried a couple of times to get a bot working, but i can never figure it out. Either way.. I think Jagex made a horrible decision overall... All the botting did was make some things cheaper for people, (that was nice because we all know cash is hard as fuck to make on runescape legit.) Also.. the botting motivated tens of thousands of people to buy membership. So unless jagex gets their shit together and get more people to start playing. Stuff really isn't going their way and I hope they notice that...

Yea!!!!, it good to see that finally something is done for the good guy for a change in our legal system.
and Maybe after the pay out (that 6 figures) is paid to Jagex, they can take and go into archives, and see what players got hacked and replace what that player did have. I know bigt pc's like this has to have archives, so I think they could go back and find the hacked players, because Jagex has all the info needed to go into any acc, so they don't have to just go on someones word, Least ways I hope so. Jagex has been making a lot of progress, so it's a possiblity, I"ll send a forum to them and see if they can do that. Big Kudos on the Judge to see justice served to the good guy for a change.

it is always worth trying to protect your property but they need to do it the right way and the need to step up their help for those who get hacked.

Jagex you are raising the prices of items by getting rid of bots. They are performing the mindless repetitive tasks you litter throughout your game so we don't have to. I am done playing this game.

look on youtube for their vid of the rs convention on bots it will explain why they didnt want bots :)

My account has been hacked on several occasions, I'm not some of those people to be like, "OOOOH Free Gold!" *Types in account stuff* BAM hacked. No, I've been hacked by Things that basically HACK Rs it's self and it's database, (Something along the lines of it, I have no clue). I keep my account safe, I've been hacked probably 7~9 times, Losts several items, But you deal with it. Yea, some people fail for the tricks but sometimes you can't prevent it.

sweet they did this but i hope they make skilling a lil easier now because its insane atm...... least for me and my friends...:C also i hope they take an easy on the bot makers......maybe insted ask them to work for them?: i mean rlly most of them r kids....and they r rlly skilled..... come on mod mmg dont be dumb XD plz be as smart as i hope you are...btw *mmg and andrew gods 4 life*

All those people who were complaining about bots being nuked really aren't thinking. The game was supposed to be played with potions, fish, and all other resources giving a decent amount of income. They don't really do that now due to the botters. After people see the prices going up, lower lvls and noobs will fill in the gaps and gravitate to those things which now give a decent amount of cash. Considering that low lvls won't lvl so fast without bots, they will spend more time earning cash through these methods and provided for the people with more cash than time. Sure prices will change, but they will be true to the economic supply and demand, and the variables will be much simpler. Besides, personally I hate the idea of kids who get 5 99s without spending a bit of time and sweat to get it. I've played for 6 years and I have put my time and energy into the game and I've had a lot of fun for it.

~My Untrimmed Summon Cape ftw :)

jagex can smd, all they are is a money hungry company that doesnt care for its members. this is highlighted by their recent membership price increase. they make enough from memberships and advertisements already. all of you who are still botting, what site are you using? botters till the end.

Moron, the price increase doesn't affect existing members, your membership fee is fixed.

Go jagex go! Slay them bots, should make slayer, fishing, woodcutting, mining, hunting, rune crafting, fletching, and cooking profitable again!

Im 138 combat, i took the damn time to level under my own steam and i've loved it. All you people complaining about repetitive tasks need to play a game you enjoy instead of runescape.

the bot is running i quit rs noobs runescape fail. jagex promises no more bot and ??????? realy realy

@ThyEmptyLord
Exactly! Bots do keep the cost of resources low, but when it comes to leveling those skills where you obtain those resources yourself, your income will also be lower. The effects on RuneScape economics will balance out. Bots ruin the game - competition with the computer is never as enjoyable as friendly competition with other real players. It is also true that Jagex need to do something about hackers, scammers and merchants too.

Personally, I go either way about this...I botted and played legit, will miss the bots, but the only skills I botted were ones that had no impact on game....Only stuff like Agility, Theiving etc....but personally, this was a poor move...
Yes, getting rid of bots makes the game better for some...for the rich...while others, now have to work twice as hard to buy the supplies they could have bought for so much less when bots were around...
I spent tons of time in game getting gold to get my prayer to 84, my firemaking to upper 80s, all of my stats above 60....now it's going to be hard to finish...

Also, all those who PAID MEMBERSHIPS FOR THEIR BOTS....you just lost several MILLION members because of this.....so, in the grand scheme of things, you just screwed yourselves JaGeX...

Quit crying, And play the game punk ass cry babies.

im glad to see this has came through. =)
@botters i hope your happy you have to play legit now 'cause its more equal, you dont need gp to train firemaking,prayer,smithing,etc. cut the wood, burn it, kill dragons/hillgiants,bury bones, mine ores, make bars, smith, to citadel activities. its not that hard.

@Jagex again good job =)

@others who see this comment if you have anything something to say to me private message me your nasty/hateful stuff(if any), be warned what you say there may be risks. =)

SO pepole who used bots will got to court ?

~So the botters got to court & made charges,huh.Well now I'm starting to think Jagex is getting back at it's feet agian!I'll report botters then attack them in the green dragons,good luck!

I dont understand why Jagex doesnt hire those bot-makers. Most of them are kids, but they are really skilled in what they do, and they actually made those bots so they can help Jagex fight other bot makers. Like the guys behind SOPA and PIPA, they was actually the people who made internet piracy possible, and now they suddently wanna get it removed. That means people who makes programs, like these bots, can help fight it back.

Bots were better for poor people? Really? Does anyone have any idea how much easier it is to make "legit" money right now than it was before botting was really a problem? Before the GE or common use of bots or high level players crammed everywhere? I have a 100m bank AFTER many items crashed in price, and I got it all with skills and saving my money, no PvM PvP or market manipulation. There was a time when I struggled to make 100K, now just kill a few dragons and bam 100K. You couldn't do that before.

Hacked people usually only have themselves to blame be more careful YOUR ACCOUNTS security is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Make sure that you make a secure password I'd recommend at least 2 words separated by numbers. Don't use 3rd party software, don't give away personal information over the internet. Set your recover questions & your email address to get your extra bank space/ security on your account. Use antivirus/antispyware & firewall theres very good free ones available now. Scan everything you download & scan your whole computer at least weekly.

If you were hacked as a result of using a bot you have absolutly no simpathy from me. If you were hacked for some other reason then be more careful stay safe online.

I have a very high level account & have not been hacked once in the 8 years that I have played you can make it so that you don't get hacked to...

Awesome. As for the people that got hacked... Your loss and jagex won't and shouldn't help those who were hacked. As its easy to keep your account safe from these "hackers." Allot of them are your friends, siblings, etc.

And if not... Then stop going to virus infected websites that WILL get your rs info!! DUH! Makes me think the people who were hacked was on a bot website and it backfired on them lol.

There is no such thing as in game hacking, you gave your information to a friend and they screwed you over. That is your fault. If your account suddenly got hacked and you didn't give away your password then it was a easy password to figure out, you might have got the account from someone who is taking it back, your friend changed your security questions. A number of things all leading to the fact that you are stupid.

and if your argument is that a program hacked you then let me clear your stupid 10 year old head up on something. That is a virus/program you installed unknowing by going to a fake or illegal site that looks like runescape and you put in your info because again, you are stupid. This then installed itself and watched your key strokes when you logged in and sent it back to a website then that took your account.

I have been playing for years and every single kid I played with that said he got hacked did something stupid to cause it. There is no way to hack. Don't even bother trying to make up some reason why you lost your items. IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT.

i totaly agree 100% but i do ocasionally feel sad for the poor people who get scammed and give them 100k :D

NO ONE WAS "HACKED", nor did any accounts get compromised. It was just a player leveling bot which played the game even is the user was away from the computer. It was entirely on the client side. RuneScape did NOT get "hacked" and user using the bot has FULL knowledge of it on the computer.

Quite frankly these kinds of scrips do nothing illegal. It's just an AI script that controls the mouse and keyboard. The ONLY real illegal thing that was done was copyright infringement for using RuneScape's name and images on there site. The other charges are completely bogus and are just frivolous scare tactics.

Next time Develop needs to do better reporting and get the facts right.

it comes down to a choice wether to play rs or not, if you decide to decide to play stop bitching about rs and play and if not stfu or take your problims to the rs mods. i know i cant spell btw

Jagex and affiliates take gaming to far. My defense would be that Jagex is trying to corrupt youth of learning by making a game that takes multiple years to level up. This is what the world has become of a gaming development sueing people, that is hilarious. Also Jagex is charging money for the game which in some cases can be looked at as Internet Fraud because Jagex is not giving anything in return except Pixels. Yes I play RS but I say this, The Jagex Crew is sad.

I think now we need to up the moderater teams and have mass bans of scamers. This would make users second guess themselfs when scamming another player.

People getting hacked is a result of the fact that Runescape players are immature, young, semi-retarded children.

They don't know anything about computer security, and all you idiots acting like you know about it make me laugh.

Keyloggers don't take screen shots of pins, but a keylogger is not the only spyware/malware in existence even though you all think it is.

Half the time you're getting infected with a remote administration tool (RAT), which can do everything from record key strokes, and mouse strokes, and even your screen. Not only that, but they could control your mouse if they wanted.

And sorry to break the news to you, but anti-virus scans are not the fix-all solution.

A lot of people I know personally have made keyloggers and RATs themselves, from scratch, and a lot of anti-virus programs use databases to look for familiar infections.

Homemade, used-by-1 person programs can go for months before they're noticed by anti-virus companies. It's the extremely popular or poorly written ones that get found.

Alright, first of all in the real world a professional is only considered an expert after 10000 hours of work in a particular field. So a level 99 skill is not all that unreasonalble considering the real world equivalent. Botting therefore would be the same as hiring someone else/use AI to work those hours out for you. Botters learn nothing in the mean time toward that time needed for such title. Those angry are those adversly affected by the bot removal, ie..the botters. As for those hacked, determining those legitimatley hacked from botters and cheaters/liers is difficult at best. Also those legitimatley hacked are few and far between, rest are failed attempts to cheat. This said, those angry/botters/cheaters suck it up and move on or quit.....the game is overall better without you and closer to the original vision of the creators. Enough said......well in my opinion anyway.

3 Reasons why botting is bad:
1.)Ruins the prices of everything so no one has to try anymore to get anything - 5 years ago a whip was 3.5 mill. Look at it now.

2.)Botters basically steal the resources from the people that work for and need them - whenever I even go near the magic or yew trees there's always 3+ bots just sitting there and walking a direct path between the tree and the bank. Hill giants used to be okay, but there is no world left that doesn't have 3+ botters pwnin away.

3.)It totally destroys the awesome feeling you get whenever you get that skillcape - you work for a year (okay, not a full year) to get one of those stats to 100, and then there's a guy who can do it in a week and not even go near a computer. That is just sad and messed up.

Jagex, you probably won't destroy all the bots, but keep trying and maybe stabalize the game by removing most of them, and at that point it wouldn't matter as much and 130+s could enjoy the game again. TYVM later.

I've been hacked before due to these "real life" item traders and to be honest Jagex should do a refund to the people that have lost years of work when they got hacked. It could also be a nice way for them to keep their subscribers if they gave them a tiny bit of security to what they have been working for within Runescape.

All you fags think it's great but it's not.
As a result of the bot nuke jagex has lost over 50% of it's monthly revenue, to offset this they will increase the price of membership.
So are you prepared to pay the extra cost to play such a shit game as runescape?
In reality no most people won't and as a result jagex will lose more revenue and it will go the same way as many other online rpg's and will end up going bankrupt within a few years, not that it's a loss to anyone as it was such a shot game anyway.

Seriously most of you people are morons.
First let me say I've played runescape for 6 years, never botted once, never been hacked and quit about 3 months ago.

Anyone who honestly believe that it's great that jagex is pretty much down the toilet, with crap all revenue coming in because of their recent choices is plain DUMB.

Jagex may have won 6 figures from some poor bugger who was picked out of the pond of bot developers, but their operating income is so small now that it's unbelievable. Anyone else notice the declining quality of their updates, the smaller amount of staff which they have and not to mention the drop of online players from around 100, 000 to 30, 000 at peek aussie time.

Runescape isn't making any money at the moment, some time soon jagex are going to go under and runescape will be sold off or completely die.

Botting helped make runescape what it is. Not only did botting bring in a huge amount of revenue for jagex but it helped people get resources which would either cost a fortune or take a long time to get, which when botting wasn't so big, previously deterred people from playing the game to it's full extent.

The cost of membership has gone up, their offering deals for buying multiple month memberships, which they never did before they started their bot crack down. Their milking runescape and the community for all it's got before they go under.

@Kurt,

So you think they should allow botting? bots ruin the game there every where legit players are trying to play taking all the resources and not even playing the game.

If you can't make money on runescape then theres something wrong with you all you do is click is time no skill needed.

And all you people crying about being hacked its your own faults for going to stupid websites promising millions and downloading viruses or making friends with players on RS and adding them to messenger and having them sending you something.

I have had my account since 2002 and never been hacked because i dont go to these stupid websites and my anti virus and malware scanner are running.

The drop in players will be a lot of botters who can no longer bot so dont want to play im glad there gone even if i dont play much any more why should they make money of the back of Jagex its not the business its Jagexs.

"Shortly, all references to iBot and Impulse Software will disappear from the internet."

Once you upload something to internet you can never delete it. It will be there FOREVER due to proxy servers, history services, other people saving it, etc.

In love how people complain about hacking if jagex were to implement a system in whIch victims of this would be helped it would just get used and people would find a way to just use the system to their advantage and gain things they don't deserve honestly if you get hacked you other obviously didn't take precautions to secure there account so don't complain

I have played for over 10 years and had over 150m legitimitely then i got hacked all of it lost over 8 years of playing then i had to resort to bot sin 2 years i had over 1b from botting and am still botting now the nuke didnt do anything to big botting companies so if there werent hacker si wouldve never done this fuck jagex for not fixing hackers i lost an account with soo much money and time

Well, I was botting too like year ago, but seems like the nuking bots was a good decision. Year ago the price of regular log was about 20-30 ea, now its growing to over 200 coins ea. Iron ore was 477 too like 3 weeks ago.

lol? now all the member bots are gone ur raising tjhe membership from £3.20 to £5 you having a laugh?

omfg way to go Fagex
i normally have a lot more to say but i'm rendered speechless

Alright, Jagex! I'm so glad we don't have these morons running a muck! Let's go for coffee!

I really don't see botting as an actual problem compared to hacking. Most people that bot in the past was just for pking and yet nothing like the nuke happened in the past at all. I agree botting is bad but why didn't Jagex do anything in the past to stop it? If they did we wouldn't been stuck with scammers at the GE or hackers right now trying to find cash. However botters in P2P = lots cash for Jagex. No botters - barely any cash from the 60k/500k players.

most of those that are hacked are hacked due to viruses that are downloaded that keep track of what u type(keyloggers) , u could prevent thesewith an antivirus. dont blame jagex for your stupidity

When did Develop turn into GameFAQs? The quality of comments here is godawful, and really not the kind of thing I'd expect to see on an industry site that is otherwise of high quality.

The economy will balance itself whether bots exist or not. If bots exist, resources are cheaper to buy, but its harder to make money. If bots don't exist, prices go up and make it harder to buy things, although you make more money from skilling. Bots are only detrimental when used by Chinese gold farmers like the ones you see at green dragons. Don't get me wrong, bots are bad, but many people used them just for leveling up their main.

To those who say that botters don't get any satisfaction from the game and that botters don't have lives: I have in the past botted. I still get satisfaction because I can actually do things I couldn't do before, such as take on difficult bosses. Botting allows me to have the fun of Runescape with the long grind. I don't see how botters don't have lives, when you spend all your time on a game, when botters like me get other things done like homework and going out with our girlfriends.

To those who say that bot clients give you keyloggers: You are idiots. Although now closed, RS Buddy had millions of users and never once did RSB hack its players. Of course some bots include viruses, but you probably just downloaded some fake program off youtube. Honestly, if you are smart with what you download you won't be hacked. I used Powerbot and RSB for an entire year and my seven-year old account has never once been touched.

LOL,Is all i can say for now, BOTTING WILL NEVER DIE. Yes they fought 1 company and they still lost. iBot was Reflection so there was no way to come back unless they remade the client. Color bots is the way of the future until a catalyst or direct x bot comes out. we are currently creating a client for color bots running on simba which is a color recongnition reader. there is already 1 botting site up now, But soon there will be more. I was a ibot user until jagex was trying to hit them hard. what happen to rsbuddy as they were a big market almost as big as impsoft. but yet they actualy goto runefest and sucks Mark Gerhard pi dick, And gets off from ruining the game. but impsoft gets fked on. 2 faced jagex 2 faced. I bet you loved how 2million people playing at 1 time about 1.2m with membership every month. why dont you take that money you made and donate it to charity as its dirty money. but u pesist on taking the snellman's house out of context. your a bunch of greedy money hungry fk wits. Bots will live on and you will die a fkn snobby ass company who jerk off to hentai and have your precious Ex Andrew Gower being a fkn pedofile realy makes runescape a game for targeted kids. Shame on you.... Ever get told ingame you need a life?
Start botting today just search botmart to find more infomation.

Bots made the game so much more playable, after being hacked and losing hundreds of hours, bots were the only thing that brought me back to the game.

Maybe they should focus on making their game an actual game instead. As it stands now, Runescape is work. You click to go to the mine, click to mine some stuff, click to walk back to the bank and click to deposit your ores. Repeat. That's not a game, it's work.
It simply isn't fun, that's why people buy these "hacks", so they can let robots do the boring things while they actually enjoy the fun things. Games should never be boring, simple as that.

Yay! Good job Jagex!

All of you meed to get a few things straight..
- your membership prices in rs will continue to stay the same if you continue to subscribe. The increase will only effect on and off subscribers and new ones.

- with majority of bots gone this allows for resource skills to make way more money then before.

- hacking of accounts is not jagex's fault ever. There are many things pur in place to protect you like email logins, security questions, bank pins. The obly way you can get hacked is buy getting a keylogger from a fake rs site.

On a final note i don't see why people who bit come on here to post.. Its obvious they dont care about the game or enjoy it enough to even play it so why are they rage posting here? Also the game is not about grind you choise to do it. If get sone friends in game you can do any bosses you wont at medicire levels that are easy to get. That is all. But good job on shutting the company down Jagex

i just want to say this to the people saying it helps low levels out. in every video game you play in your life you will start from the beginning this is no different.As for wanting money? you do realize the more money bots make the less money is worth, everything crashes and is easily affordable. if you want fast levels and money go play a damn private server

Money on RuneScape is hardly difficult to make. There's Runecrafting, which may be slow and boring, but it's very, very profitable. With bots in the game, Runecrafting was a joke. It was a slow skill with very little profit.

Fishing is now profitable as well. Sharks were down to 600gp each before bot-nuke day, and now they sell at 1.6k easily.

Hunter benefited as well. Red chinchompas were down to under 500gp each just before bot-nuke day, and now are at 1.9k. At 90+ Hunter, you catch about 400 or so per hour. That's just under 800k in cash each hour of Hunting. The money isn't even that bad at level 70.

See? There are three easy skills you can use to make money. If you want to whine about how expensive everything is or how hard it is to make money, then fine. Just keep buying the items I put on the Grand Exchange and I'll be happy.

blow me jagex, and you 2 botters. just playin a game here.

Nice work indeed! All the bots are finally going down, and that is just awesome. I have never botted in my entire life and everything is just fine.

I have played now about 4 years with my account and my all stats are over 60, all quests complete with a healthy stack of coins. Bots aren't NEVER the answer. If you can't stand this game, simply do not play it.

I, personally have never heard of iBot, however I have heard of Impulse Software. this victory (if it is absolute or not) is going to be a very strong warning to other bot developers out there... 6 digits is an awfully large sum. but for some common things I see in the other posts, I'd like to give explanation and/or my opinion.

- getting your account "hacked" is most likely an issue on your end... watch your internet activity closely...
- jagex (as far as I can tell) hasn't broke any law...
- money (as a member) is easily made at most any level with little effort...
- why bot? from what I have seen bots are terribly slow... I could probably skill half-assed and end up out-performing most bots out there... and I'm not even a skiller!

dont like what I have to say? too bad, your opinions are as unimportant and irrelevant as mine.
-with all honesty
Dairko-

Wonderful news! And to those complaining of being hacked - I run avast free spyware - never been hacked - never heard of anyone being hacked who didn't know why (friend or public computer) My worry/hope is that people now come back! Vet's cape in a month!

I find it quite laughable how anyone thinks all the bot code will be destroyed... You could make millions of copies. The game is garbage anyways... Instead of making law suits against bot programmers, why not suppress the ability to use the programs in game? That's like shutting down a company that produces cars because some crazy people go on a rampage.

Bots are in no way doing anything against the structure of the program. It's a simple macro!

jagex ruined botting ... botting = having a life not wanting to play all day..
actually playing all day = ruined life.... if they really want to fix the problem they should remove runescape and give nerds their lives back.

I guess I'll go back into using those now. =P

lol runescape sucks, seriously who really cares?

to everyone saying "hacking is your own fault" blah blah. i have 4 accounts running off of one computer, (my main 134 cl over 2200 overall, my pure, my brothers main and my brothers pure). Reason for listing this is that, 2/4 were hacked, my pure and my brothers, but ironincally my main which is worth over 700m hasnt been touched and nor has my brothers main worth over 200m...thus eliminating the possibility of keyloggers and phishing sites.

just saying.

Also fagex wont give us either account back even though we provide membership confirm ID's from over 3 years ago and the emails. meh guess they just dont care

Hacking is becoming a hugh issue, some of my hoarding accounts have been cleaned. - Accounts i have not loged into for months. There has to be something going on other then just keylogers or phishing sites