Jagex, maker of the popular online game Runescape, has announced that the 60 percent of the active accounts has been banned. These accounts would have been found guilty of the use of a bot or goldfarming.
With a game update, at the end of October was made, were 1.5 million accounts removed from the game. Then claimed Jagex 9000 accounts per minute to a ban, which now total approximately 10 million accounts from Runescape are excluded. The ban is reportedly still weeks. Players to let it know that there are many ‘well known’ botgebruikers still in the highscores.
This is particularly important for accounts that are in the free version of the game were active, as did ceo Mark Gerhard know during Runefest, players organized Runescape event in London. In addition, can Jagex goldfarmers with the new detection technology to better tackle it. The goldfarmers play the game to collect resources, and then for “real” money to sell.
The changes to the gamecode to have the consequence that a large portion of the Runescape-bots don’t work anymore. It would go to 98 percent of the botgebruikers, where only ‘simple’ and less popular klikbots would work. Jagex also claims the remaining bots from the game to remove. Before the update made botgebruikers and goldfarmers to 200,000 accounts per day, according to Gerhard.
On Runescape, the free version is in the Guinness Book of Records was recorded as the most popular free mmog, has been for a long time complained about the large botgemeenschap in the game. Even though Jagex claimed behind the scenes bots to detect with special tools, it seemed the number of in the past time only.