I've had 3 of my accounts perm banned due to Apparent *Macroing* including my 18 Year old account, and my appeals get ignored everytime, i've been literally trying to get these accounts unbanned for the past 2 years and they do absolutely nothing. This is nothing new, Jagex have always been extremely dumb in this territory.
Imagine manually spending 10k+ hours on a game that's gradually dying...... OR multiple accounts 10k+ hours. I love RS but for this very reason, I don't hate the botters. Everyone has a life, job and family to take care of now, I don't play but if I did, I generally don't have as much time as some of the other people who play the game. Some content is kinda scummy to bot, but spending 250+ hours getting 99 agility or any other pointless 99 is just self-damaging when at the end of the day, when the game dies, we wont get that time back. At the end of the day, its a game and games are meant to be played to be ENJOYED. Enjoy it while we are here, no point in being pissed about someone else enjoying a game the way they want to.
Considering my new character on Jagex account got banned after 4 hours of gameplay and only killing goblins and chopping trees, I'd say Jagex is screwed if they don't fix their banning system. Oh, and btw, I ran past the 10-20 Steven bots on my way to do said training. You know, the same ones that have been in the game for months :D
spent 3k hours, 2100 total, untrim slayer cape, just to get banned perm with no appeal. my dumbass got trade scammed so that flagged me for rwt, granted getting scammed is my fault, but now i lost my whole account. jagex just flat out ignores or auto replies everything. fix your shit jagex. this is pathetic
Jagex needs a proper anti cheat team who does nothing but monitor reports but doesn't have a 3 second time limit. Proper investigations need to be made on reports, which will prolong ban appeals but this will ensure a higher ban success rate and fewer false bans.
whats wild is (assuming the guy isn’t lying) he didn’t threaten legal action he just appealed his ban and they made a bunch of snarky comments about the TOS and essentially how they have the right to ban you for 0 reason and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Many years ago, I decided to make a lvl 3 skiller account. I traded it some feathers and got 70+ fishing within a couple days because I'm a grinder. Next day the account gets PERMA banned with no option for appeal, reason listed was macroing. Still don't have a skiller
I lost my max pure and my main was temp banned for RWT major. All I did was transfer 100m from my pure back to my main. No other trades, no actual rwt, didn’t talk to anyone else, nothing. Max pure was perma and unappealable, but wasn’t even manual.
my main got false banned in september for macro major, denied appeal. 5 years of work gone as i was just getting to late game and no way to get it back.
I had a friend/co-worker who did some RWT, banned for 2 days, and nothing happened afterwards. He was even able to appeal, and it got granted. He kept all his gp and items, and even admitted to me that he bought 400m.
ultimately the main issue is that the OSRS team just doesn’t have the resources to handle bans “efficiently”. The entire anti-cheating team is less than 5 people afaik so there’s literally no way they _could_ read every appeal/ban every obvious bot. With enough people they wouldn’t need to _solely_ rely on automation like this. It’s still a necessary tool but automation always needs human review and they just don’t have enough people to do that.
I used a bot once for 5 minutes and was permanently banned for 10k cooking xp... Never botted since and made new accounts, main, iron, alts ect. I recently appealed my ban saying I apologized for breaking the rules, its one of the options to click, and I wasn't instantly denied. After seeing gold farmers get unbanned it salts the wound
@@tonypereira6495 thats your first problem with the support system, even if you did do it, just like the legal system, never ever EVER under any circumstance admit the guilt to it for any reason
The amount of money they make from botters that also keep the economy alive is not a small amount. They could solve it but they'd be deliberately throwing away money, the higher ups know it so they won't ever fix it. They just have to make it "look like" they are concerned about it. Jagex is a business, the fact is botters make them money and we play alongside them. Money is first to a business once they've secured the customers
This is the reason why I started botting. I had 8 years old main account false banned, and i don't see a reason to do that again. So far I have 27 appeals accepted.
If you report too many bots they'll ban you for the same thing because bot farms will mass report you. Just play the game, don't chat in game so you don't get a mute. Never report a bot so you don't get a target on your back. Play only on 1750 total skill plus worlds to be more likely to be with real players. Avoid the wilderness as there are rolling bot farms that clear out busy areas on the 5 minute marks, if you fight back and kill the bots you get mass reported.
@@rhyno7188 Nice to hear that you got your account back mine is still in the appeal phase have to wait, might be some quests required to bot some activity? Idk seems weird to hack an account to skill and quest 😂😂
there is probably waaaaaaaaaay too much for how small the bans/appeals team probably (if there even is one) too much automation. the false bans is likely botters spam-reporting and getting the system to do the rest
Got a temp ban on my ironman for botting back in Jan this year when I was grinding revs...tweeted at jmods for days for about a month and gave up. My ban came the day after i started ragging rev bots to free up spots at quads. Never used any unauthorized clients, plugins, botting scripts, you name it. Luckily it goes from appeal denied to quashed after a year (from what I read) so now I'm avoiding rev caves like the plague in fear of getting perm'd
I wish Jagex would address the mechanism that’s causing these bans. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s an approved client or a client tool that was downloaded.
they false banned me too over a year ago, i havent played since, that incompetent hack jagex beano claimed they manually review all appeals, this video is proof they dont.
Meanwhile my friend who has never botted a day in his life gets banned for botting… which blows me away. As someone that USED to bot with over 50 accounts at one time Jadex’s bot detection and auto appeals has always been HORRIBLE. Usually only 1 bot out of 10 would get an unappealable ban in the course of a month botting. They even try to do IP bans but those fail due to VPNs. The best anti botting they used to do was the skill reset back in the day. It would frustrate me to no end as it forced you to move a bot to its own area to start the level grind again. Most times I would just write it off. Honestly, They should return to that but lock that skill or skills from gaining exp for like a few weeks. Would solve 99% of botting issues. But I 100% believe these are real as the appeal messages I used to send would be the most random BS like “Let me enjoy the skill slavery with my bots” or something stupid.
I dont care too much about people botting fishing, mining, runecrafting or w.e but the issue is when bot scripts are able to do endgame pvm content, like why do anything in the game if a bot is allowed to run free
This has been going on for so long. One of my brother's accounts got a temporary ban for allegedly botting as well and I can guarantee you a 100% he never ever botted but they won't respond, they won't show the evidence. it's really horrifying. We both have mains with a couple of 100 days of gameplay and we are horrified that one day they would get wrongly banned. It would really be heartbreaking..
So if you ever get banned for botting all you need to do is appeal from a different IP, either a VPN or rebooting your modem if you have dynamic IP from your ISP... This is sad...
Not exactly. You have to do the appeal from your original IP (where the account was made). And do the botting in different IP. So in a nutshell you make an account, do the tutorial island, u swap on the VPN and play. When u get banned, u turn the VPN off and do the appeal. So if u currently have a legit account that have never botted, if u don't use VPN and u get banned, it's permanent ban and appeals are ignored. That's what happened, to my 8 years old main account.
how they ban people? thats the question.. there is zulrah bots with hundreds of thousand kc and not banned, but they ban random people..this issue is not novadays.. this issue started long time ago.. and how they not ban BOTS, but ban people. this is fkin strange. BOTS not getting banned and people do.
How do they ban? It's an automatic bansystem. [X] reports will get you only minitored... A ban because of rwt is not that they can see or controll it, it's because of the seller. Recent traded accounts get flagged and later (perm) banned. Fun fact.. Always spend ALL your gp! Jagex will always auto take your cashstack, nothing else...
I botted as a 12 year old to train woodcutting. That account has been banned for over 15 years even though I've appealed but these guys can get away with it today smh
Crazy you say that my main 1 year ago... nearly maxed... got banned when I was no lifing agilty... got perm banned appealed was denied, was going to try contact them through twitter but just didn't see any point.
i’ve always thought the people working at jagex with the exception of very few, are so extremely unprofessional. They’re like children with control over this game.
I keep making new defence pures and ill get like 60 defence kicking monks working from home, while also playing my main and the defence pure gets banned
My pal works as staff remember for discord channel that sells cheat plugins, clients, and scripts. He said you would be surprised the amount of high level pvmers/pkers, streamers, and content creators he’s had to provide licenses to use their clients and plugins.
"cant provide evidence".. so either they dont have or just dont have evidence.. if you ban, there should be evidence, so that people would see them. otherwise its just false bans
You will never see any company provide evidence for bans regarding games integrity (botting, hacking), it gives botters all the informations they need and gives zero benefit for jagex.
@@berZerkHD maybe you are right, but then how you know its true or false bans.. you know that there where alot false bans. as example thing with odablock, when he just "crossed" road with jmod. and why bots not getting ban that much but normal player does, cause now basically 1/3 players or even more is bots..something is not right here
@@Enterprier True answer is you don't, you either trust the company or not. Just take all this stuff with a grain of salt, because those that bot or cheat in games are not shy of lying after being caught. That said there has been false bans and it sucks and in a perfect world it shouldn't happen.
@@Enterprier Still it's better to have false bans than more bots. Either way, jagex is terrible at finding bots. Even the freaking runelite plugin is 1000% better.
Well companies like this don't care about the customer, only how much they can stuff in their pockets. Playing this game is risky, as their is a good chance you will be banned hundreds of hours into your account. Gl :)
I can say for certain jamflex does read some ban reports. I was banned for RMT and it was appealed. I said some less than professional things in my appeal and they wrote back in the appeal “racist and sexual harassment is not acceptable towards mods” I have the screenshot to prove. After they denied appeal they perm banned me for my appeal
Lots of people writing their own basic python scripts with the help of chatgpt for botting. They still get caught easily and I’d bet a ton of the “false bans” are people who made their own script and can’t believe they got caught
I made a screen clicker on python. Takes control of my mouse and clicks certain parts of my screen on timers to do simple repeative task. Like smithing and crafting. I added in randomness in times and click areas and use it for about a month and no ban. Use it for hour or 2 at a time while i play xbox
Imo a better solution would having a small team keep a closer eye on raids and other end game content but lean into us being older with less time so bots dont really impact us. Example lean into afk gameplay for lower xp rates. If people can afk for 6 hours their playerbase will skyrocket adding value to the company.
This video is a couple of months old so this probably won't be read but seriously, thanks for constantly bringing this issue to people's and especially Jagex's attention. My near maxed account was false banned years ago and I was constantly told that the decision was 100% correct and that there was nothing I can do, I was pretty down about it for months, and the gaslighting from the community was just gross, but thankfully I was able to get my account looked at on Twitter by Tyran who reviewed it and quashed it and said it was a mistake, all I got was a quick sorry with no explanation. I've had no issues since but I can't deny that I get anxious whenever I do a considerably big grind as I know first hand that a false ban can happen anytime. It needs to be addressed and I think RS content creators such as yourself are the only way that it's going to happen.
They are false banning players and unbanning only visible players. Really hate the hostile enviorement the playerbase has build, where jagex gets away with this. There needs to be better player support for fixing these things.
if youre in europe cant you use GDPR to request any information they have stored in regards to you personally which should include any proof of botting?
it's not a new issue, Jagex have been doing this for years. My main on RS2 was banned when they released the "new" botting bashing thing and they told me to essentially go fuck myself because they don't make mistakes.
It's actually wild asf how little Jagex cares about the player base. They really are out of pocket for not addressing this. I can forgive mistakes, but blatantly ignoring a system of theirs that effects all of us potentially is such a terrible look. Do better.
as an rs3 player, I fear playing old school because I could get falsely banned and lose all my progress in rs3 as well. So stupid. I’ve never had problems like this playing rs3
Did they ever go back and stop banning people for trading between players? My friend plays, and if I let him borrow my T-Bow I'm afraid there might be a chance that we get banned because if he trades with someone in his guild who just happened to real world trade, the system would check who was connected to the RW trader and who those other people were trading with and ban everyone linked to them like they did a while back.
My first original OG account with over a year of playtime between rs2/rs3/OSRS was hacked and banned when I got really into an ironman account and hadn't logged into the main for a while. I appealed twice and can't appeal again. Its name was my (pretty common) last name with no numbers or spaces, so it sucks that I can't even get that back... It had 2fa, but was using an email which was deactivated, so it wasn't receiving emails. I have no idea how it was even hacked. I explained this in my appeal but now I assume it wasn't even looked at... If a human reviewed the account's activity I'm confident they could find evidence of my innocence.
@KingCondor I got false banned on my 99 mage account that I use to alc with my feet while I work. Yes, I taped the bottom of a mouse so it doesn't move and I would alc all day long while working. I appealed because they said I was using 3rd part software, despite using Runelite and the main client. I can't make another appeal because it is locked out. I realize this is the typical "I swear I wasn't botting" response you see on reddit, but I truly wasn't doing anything but alcing with my toe lmao. Is there any other way to appeal now that I have once? I feel like they said they were looking into changing the system after all the false bans, but haven't heard anymore on this.
getting banned in runescape is part of the nostalgia. see when you get falsely banned you get to go over to the library and apply an appeal. big brained
It doesn't matter, there is no chance for justice for those without a voice, better start streaming guys otherwise you'll be forced to start a new account and accept defeat silently.
The osrs ban system is a bit like when you’re driving & a cop starts driving behind you & you know you aren’t doing anything illegal but you get some irrational thought through your head like fuck what if I got a body in the trunk or I am doing something illegal even tho you’re not.. That’s how I feel with the banning system like I know I’m not doing anything wrong but what if I am so not overlord an I didn’t even know it😭😭
Not sure who was it but I saw a video not too long ago where somebody did an interview with botters and this is a genuine strategy. They blatantly bot with a different IP to maximize profit and then appeal and repeat until they eventually get properly permad.
How the fuck do they get unbanned. Meanwhile i had a nearly max main hacked 5years ago and get an unapealable ban 3 days after acc recovery and being cleaned
I think one raising issue which not many people may realize is that people are getting older/new players are young. On average young people tend to lie a lot, just a fact. I know I have used auto clicker for high alching way back on my 1st iron and it's really not that hard to see someone who got caught doing it denying it. Especially since ppl have so little faith on Jagex nowdays it's like a free joker card you can always play. I do think Jagex has room for improvement in their system and there definitely are false bans that happen but you shouldn't speculate when you don't have any of the real data or understanding in your hands.
If you turn your attention to the very beginning of the video, I'm certain i state that these may not be real, but there are a lot of them and it would be a stretch to have this fabricated, mix that in with the large amount of accused false bans at the moment and the fact that Jagex's original claim to only have 30~ false bans at the start of the year to already be well over tripled, and we have seen reputable content creators being false banned, I think its more than fair to have this discussion, I did not take these images at 100% truth and clearly stated that numerous times, but I appreciate your opinion and your concerns have been noted
@@KingCondorits probably way more than we know because not everyone has a platform or even bothers to try to appeal the ban. Jagex are lying about 30 or whatever false bans, its probably more in the ballpark of 500
I used to bot, got some accounts with similar appeal reactions. Since they are perm banned after a new ban, i can provide login details and u can see it for yourself if you wish.
can confirm that they unban botters, at the beginning of the release of oldschool ( was still young and stupid) I botted on my first account that i had ever made, waited abit and then appealed the ban and got unbanned.
off topic, but i'm coming back, waiting on recovery, lost access to that email but atleast ive got my max zerker (stupid acc) back for now. hope to see you around condor, what worlds do you play in?
You can delete botting from Runescape overnight, but lets be honest, half the playerbase is buying and selling gold. You could remove free trade but the community is so unbelievably dumb that they cry about it the moment someone mentions it.
I might be an idiot but: we already have the volunteer Pmod system, why not use them. Every single pmod I know would happily dedicate half a hour a day/week/month what ever Jagex decides to review appeals.
I actually quit the game because of this lol. They banned a new character I made, 4 hours into gameplay of only killing goblins and chopping trees. Apparently, playing the game normally = macroing 😂This game is going to die VERY quickly with more of these stories coming out. Too risky to play.
@thelegacyofgaming2928 Exactly. I just got banned on a pure I was working on. 10 hours down the drain. At least it happened 10 hours in and not 1,000 hours in. Rest in Pieces, Jagex.
The appeal system works like that because it's operated by Computer, there is no human involved, I don't remember on top of my head when this was stated, but I have a former jmod Mat K in record, stating that the system is completely automated, and it checks for 3 steps. 1 Did this account commit this Crime, 2 Was the account under the hijack, 3 Was the penalty justified? All 3 steps have to confirm in order for Robot to Deny the appeal and. VPN covers your ass so Step 2 fails, yes account was hijacked, appeal accepted. Remember These are Words from Mat K's mouth.
yeah i got banned for botting but it was because my account was actually hacked lol. i was so confused why the account was banned because i hadn't played in months and i tried to log in and it didn't let me. only through twitter message with mod ash was I able to get unbanned. ridiculous
So bots get unbanned but my 18 year old account got macro major ban in Dec 2021, while i haven't played for 6 years and my appeal got denied. Jagex are the worst company around.
@@Dylan-qb8br Most people still using the java client are cheaters. There's no reason to still be using it. They could tell you were using the legacy client, and that helps prove my point lol
@OMGnanerpus Yes, I'm certain Jagex is banning people who use their own downloadable client from their website. What a great company to invest your time into. RIP lmao
@@Dylan-qb8br Its not downloadable anymore and hasn't been for a while. You can only use it if you've had it downloaded for a while. Very few people still use that client, so they can watch it closely now.
I dont understand how people get banned I build accounts to 2k ttl running 8hrs a day have built atleast 20 accs so far and not a single ban and I've sold every account no issues
So if all of these screenshots are real I think it might be safe to say that there might be some Jamflex insider in the ban department screwing with the code.
Im sure false bans happen rarely but the amount of people who claim false bans doesnt make sense. Ive played since 2008 and the only time ive been banned temp or perm was for botting in 2010. Havent botted after that ban and havent been banned since.
You are lucky asfk... I was banned for botting on my iron which Made no Sense, i was in a Bingo with my cc and was typing most of the Time, appealed insta denied, so had to wait for the temp ban to remove itself...tried to catch up To the bingo guys who were ahead, later , like a month or two after i was banned again for botting, again when livestreaming to the clan, it Made absolutely no Sense bc i was false banned i got into the discord clan AND streamed it every Time i played. 😂 Was Perm banned AND spent weeks trying to contact customer support from jagex for nothing. Cashbacked the yearly subscripction off jagex i was paying because it was stupid...
Happens along with the account locking more then you'd like to think. If you even try to recover an account without 100% info the same ip or of you swapped from say spectrum to att its basically gone for ever.
Either im the luckiest person to ever play or you guys are the unluckiest. Ive used vpns and remote desktop from 1000 miles away. Ive changed internet providers 5 times in the 15 years ive played and ive never had any problems except the one time i actually botted.
Domi just bots lots of accounts. For each account with 10 successful appeals he probably has 50 accounts that were insta denied on first pffence. Each appeal is 50/50 chances of getting appeal accepted.
My strictly cooking alt got banned the day I bought a new bond and hit 50m cooking exp. Was per player moderator comment which is bs when I afk cooked on my main and alt for a month but because it had 50m cooking, I feel it was a false ban
For context, my alts banned for botting while I afk cook and watch anime, utilizing the runelite notification ping. If that gets you banned per "pmod comment" then maybe it shouldn't be a thing 🤔
Idk 15 years never had an issuse. I guarantee they had something on thier computer that set off the alarms. They got stuff to scan the computer for curtain software that may be used for botting or hacking even if your aren't your playing with fire.
Haha he said he dont think his friend that has been hacked 3 times would risk botting. Yeah ok dude that is the 1 type of person who would risk it. That being said ive been false banned for training 1 skill at a time. You need to train all skills like bots do to avoid ban.
I've had 3 of my accounts perm banned due to Apparent *Macroing* including my 18 Year old account, and my appeals get ignored everytime, i've been literally trying to get these accounts unbanned for the past 2 years and they do absolutely nothing. This is nothing new, Jagex have always been extremely dumb in this territory.
Imagine spending 10k plus hours to get banned and no appeal
Wake up every day scared to do any afk training cause of this lol 😂
Imagine manually spending 10k+ hours on a game that's gradually dying...... OR multiple accounts 10k+ hours. I love RS but for this very reason, I don't hate the botters. Everyone has a life, job and family to take care of now, I don't play but if I did, I generally don't have as much time as some of the other people who play the game. Some content is kinda scummy to bot, but spending 250+ hours getting 99 agility or any other pointless 99 is just self-damaging when at the end of the day, when the game dies, we wont get that time back. At the end of the day, its a game and games are meant to be played to be ENJOYED. Enjoy it while we are here, no point in being pissed about someone else enjoying a game the way they want to.
@@TrekTheTech im one of those people and it took me 3 years to get 99 slayer 😅
@@TrekTheTech You typed a paragraph that has nothing to do with being false banned. Congrats.
@@mrdrone2758do it on mobile there’s absolutely no way they fuck that up
Jagex’s specialty is being incompetent and fucking things up. Their skill at falsely banning legitimate players is unparalleled.
Gagex needs an actual customer service if they are a $1 Billion dollar company. this is so bad for their PR..
I've been hacked and banned. Did an appeal and all my appeals have been denied. Do reasoning what so ever from Gagex.
Considering my new character on Jagex account got banned after 4 hours of gameplay and only killing goblins and chopping trees, I'd say Jagex is screwed if they don't fix their banning system.
Oh, and btw, I ran past the 10-20 Steven bots on my way to do said training. You know, the same ones that have been in the game for months :D
been in the game for years*
spent 3k hours, 2100 total, untrim slayer cape, just to get banned perm with no appeal. my dumbass got trade scammed so that flagged me for rwt, granted getting scammed is my fault, but now i lost my whole account. jagex just flat out ignores or auto replies everything. fix your shit jagex. this is pathetic
Jagex needs a proper anti cheat team who does nothing but monitor reports but doesn't have a 3 second time limit. Proper investigations need to be made on reports, which will prolong ban appeals but this will ensure a higher ban success rate and fewer false bans.
The "send us a physical letter" was just for serving a lawsuit, not for appealing bans. Which is more reasonable.
whats wild is (assuming the guy isn’t lying) he didn’t threaten legal action he just appealed his ban and they made a bunch of snarky comments about the TOS and essentially how they have the right to ban you for 0 reason and there’s nothing you can do about it.
We all agreed to the terms of service. Your account is property of jagex, not you@@noThankyou-g5c
@@noThankyou-g5c It was just a generic response. They didn't get snarky. It's just a copy pasted response with any details you may need
Many years ago, I decided to make a lvl 3 skiller account. I traded it some feathers and got 70+ fishing within a couple days because I'm a grinder. Next day the account gets PERMA banned with no option for appeal, reason listed was macroing. Still don't have a skiller
I lost my max pure and my main was temp banned for RWT major.
All I did was transfer 100m from my pure back to my main. No other trades, no actual rwt, didn’t talk to anyone else, nothing.
Max pure was perma and unappealable, but wasn’t even manual.
@@FormerGovernmentHuman Yea, if you trade over a certain amount of gold, it gets auto flagged. So you can only trade in about 100k increments or so :D
my main got false banned in september for macro major, denied appeal. 5 years of work gone as i was just getting to late game and no way to get it back.
I had a friend/co-worker who did some RWT, banned for 2 days, and nothing happened afterwards. He was even able to appeal, and it got granted. He kept all his gp and items, and even admitted to me that he bought 400m.
ultimately the main issue is that the OSRS team just doesn’t have the resources to handle bans “efficiently”. The entire anti-cheating team is less than 5 people afaik so there’s literally no way they _could_ read every appeal/ban every obvious bot. With enough people they wouldn’t need to _solely_ rely on automation like this. It’s still a necessary tool but automation always needs human review and they just don’t have enough people to do that.
I used a bot once for 5 minutes and was permanently banned for 10k cooking xp... Never botted since and made new accounts, main, iron, alts ect. I recently appealed my ban saying I apologized for breaking the rules, its one of the options to click, and I wasn't instantly denied. After seeing gold farmers get unbanned it salts the wound
@@tonypereira6495 thats your first problem with the support system, even if you did do it, just like the legal system, never ever EVER under any circumstance admit the guilt to it for any reason
How do they not have a dedicated team to this when botting is such an issue? Absolutely clueless company
Or bots bring in a lot of revenue and us as osrs players have proved to jagex we are willing to play with the bots. So maybe you are clueless haha
The amount of money they make from botters that also keep the economy alive is not a small amount. They could solve it but they'd be deliberately throwing away money, the higher ups know it so they won't ever fix it. They just have to make it "look like" they are concerned about it. Jagex is a business, the fact is botters make them money and we play alongside them. Money is first to a business once they've secured the customers
@@michaelf184 "maybe ur clueless xdd". Player mod detected.
People have complained about it for years now, smh my head
@@MaxiemumKarnage “now smh, my head” - now shaking my head my head
-maxiemumkarnage
THat's such sink of money. Noone would approve of that. Same as why most companies don't have dedicated support line.
This is the reason why I started botting. I had 8 years old main account false banned, and i don't see a reason to do that again. So far I have 27 appeals accepted.
Penguinturbo/ratphetamine is still banned, uim that plays live on twitch. Not sure what jagex has going on but damn its not looking good
If you report too many bots they'll ban you for the same thing because bot farms will mass report you.
Just play the game, don't chat in game so you don't get a mute. Never report a bot so you don't get a target on your back. Play only on 1750 total skill plus worlds to be more likely to be with real players. Avoid the wilderness as there are rolling bot farms that clear out busy areas on the 5 minute marks, if you fight back and kill the bots you get mass reported.
Getting this video reccomended 2 days after my main got banned for botting, didnt even play the account come back and its banned :(
Same happened to me. I did my appeal and got my access back, it took a couple of days. Whoever hacked my account did some quests and skilling
@@rhyno7188 Nice to hear that you got your account back mine is still in the appeal phase have to wait, might be some quests required to bot some activity? Idk seems weird to hack an account to skill and quest 😂😂
there is probably waaaaaaaaaay too much for how small the bans/appeals team probably (if there even is one)
too much automation. the false bans is likely botters spam-reporting and getting the system to do the rest
I was hacked on an account, it even said it logged in from Switzerland and I'm in the US. I appealed it and denied.
Got a temp ban on my ironman for botting back in Jan this year when I was grinding revs...tweeted at jmods for days for about a month and gave up.
My ban came the day after i started ragging rev bots to free up spots at quads. Never used any unauthorized clients, plugins, botting scripts, you name it.
Luckily it goes from appeal denied to quashed after a year (from what I read) so now I'm avoiding rev caves like the plague in fear of getting perm'd
Just happened to me. False banned for macro. Perm. Pending appeal.
Gonna have to do what any self respecting man should do: Quit.
Im glad someones talking about this, I traded 2 bill from my main to my alt and my alt was banned and had the 2b removed by jagex
I wish Jagex would address the mechanism that’s causing these bans. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s an approved client or a client tool that was downloaded.
they false banned me too over a year ago, i havent played since, that incompetent hack jagex beano claimed they manually review all appeals, this video is proof they dont.
Meanwhile my friend who has never botted a day in his life gets banned for botting… which blows me away. As someone that USED to bot with over 50 accounts at one time Jadex’s bot detection and auto appeals has always been HORRIBLE. Usually only 1 bot out of 10 would get an unappealable ban in the course of a month botting.
They even try to do IP bans but those fail due to VPNs.
The best anti botting they used to do was the skill reset back in the day. It would frustrate me to no end as it forced you to move a bot to its own area to start the level grind again. Most times I would just write it off. Honestly, They should return to that but lock that skill or skills from gaining exp for like a few weeks. Would solve 99% of botting issues.
But I 100% believe these are real as the appeal messages I used to send would be the most random BS like “Let me enjoy the skill slavery with my bots” or something stupid.
I dont care too much about people botting fishing, mining, runecrafting or w.e but the issue is when bot scripts are able to do endgame pvm content, like why do anything in the game if a bot is allowed to run free
right? i dont even report real players botting, just the toxic ones that spam bullshit and ruin the high level pvm
This has been going on for so long. One of my brother's accounts got a temporary ban for allegedly botting as well and I can guarantee you a 100% he never ever botted but they won't respond, they won't show the evidence. it's really horrifying. We both have mains with a couple of 100 days of gameplay and we are horrified that one day they would get wrongly banned. It would really be heartbreaking..
Easily real, acc appeal is easily DDOSable via spam of cheaters, legit players are fucked
??! Yapping
So if you ever get banned for botting all you need to do is appeal from a different IP, either a VPN or rebooting your modem if you have dynamic IP from your ISP... This is sad...
Not exactly. You have to do the appeal from your original IP (where the account was made). And do the botting in different IP. So in a nutshell you make an account, do the tutorial island, u swap on the VPN and play. When u get banned, u turn the VPN off and do the appeal. So if u currently have a legit account that have never botted, if u don't use VPN and u get banned, it's permanent ban and appeals are ignored. That's what happened, to my 8 years old main account.
how they ban people? thats the question.. there is zulrah bots with hundreds of thousand kc and not banned, but they ban random people..this issue is not novadays.. this issue started long time ago.. and how they not ban BOTS, but ban people. this is fkin strange. BOTS not getting banned and people do.
How do they ban? It's an automatic bansystem. [X] reports will get you only minitored... A ban because of rwt is not that they can see or controll it, it's because of the seller. Recent traded accounts get flagged and later (perm) banned.
Fun fact.. Always spend ALL your gp! Jagex will always auto take your cashstack, nothing else...
Bots dont even get reported anymore lol.. people got used to it and just let them do their thing...
You would be surprised how many of those "bots" are real players.
@@LordSadCat just about 10%
@@Ata_2601 nahh. the 'tism is real in this game. People posting all the time on reddit.
I botted as a 12 year old to train woodcutting. That account has been banned for over 15 years even though I've appealed but these guys can get away with it today smh
Crazy you say that my main 1 year ago... nearly maxed... got banned when I was no lifing agilty... got perm banned appealed was denied, was going to try contact them through twitter but just didn't see any point.
Some times we have to let go of the things we love the most.
It was fun while it lasted, but you need to respect your own time and money.
Any one with 1 zuk kc with a sub 1hr pb should just be insta banned unless there obviously a alt.
I have 1 kc with a 3 hour 17m pb lol
i’ve always thought the people working at jagex with the exception of very few, are so extremely unprofessional. They’re like children with control over this game.
I keep making new defence pures and ill get like 60 defence kicking monks working from home, while also playing my main and the defence pure gets banned
My pal works as staff remember for discord channel that sells cheat plugins, clients, and scripts. He said you would be surprised the amount of high level pvmers/pkers, streamers, and content creators he’s had to provide licenses to use their clients and plugins.
5:50 I got the same exact message. Was hacked on my main and the hacker botted my account and they sent me the same email after denying like 3 times.
My ironman was banned twice when I wasn't playing. Authenticator and password untouched. Jagex needs to get this shit figured out.
"cant provide evidence".. so either they dont have or just dont have evidence.. if you ban, there should be evidence, so that people would see them. otherwise its just false bans
You will never see any company provide evidence for bans regarding games integrity (botting, hacking), it gives botters all the informations they need and gives zero benefit for jagex.
@@berZerkHD maybe you are right, but then how you know its true or false bans.. you know that there where alot false bans. as example thing with odablock, when he just "crossed" road with jmod. and why bots not getting ban that much but normal player does, cause now basically 1/3 players or even more is bots..something is not right here
@@Enterprier True answer is you don't, you either trust the company or not. Just take all this stuff with a grain of salt, because those that bot or cheat in games are not shy of lying after being caught. That said there has been false bans and it sucks and in a perfect world it shouldn't happen.
@@Enterprier Still it's better to have false bans than more bots. Either way, jagex is terrible at finding bots. Even the freaking runelite plugin is 1000% better.
Well companies like this don't care about the customer, only how much they can stuff in their pockets. Playing this game is risky, as their is a good chance you will be banned hundreds of hours into your account. Gl :)
I can say for certain jamflex does read some ban reports. I was banned for RMT and it was appealed. I said some less than professional things in my appeal and they wrote back in the appeal “racist and sexual harassment is not acceptable towards mods” I have the screenshot to prove. After they denied appeal they perm banned me for my appeal
Lots of people writing their own basic python scripts with the help of chatgpt for botting. They still get caught easily and I’d bet a ton of the “false bans” are people who made their own script and can’t believe they got caught
When the workings are exposed it'll show how incompetent Jagex truly is.
I made a screen clicker on python. Takes control of my mouse and clicks certain parts of my screen on timers to do simple repeative task. Like smithing and crafting. I added in randomness in times and click areas and use it for about a month and no ban. Use it for hour or 2 at a time while i play xbox
Imo a better solution would having a small team keep a closer eye on raids and other end game content but lean into us being older with less time so bots dont really impact us. Example lean into afk gameplay for lower xp rates. If people can afk for 6 hours their playerbase will skyrocket adding value to the company.
This video is a couple of months old so this probably won't be read but seriously, thanks for constantly bringing this issue to people's and especially Jagex's attention. My near maxed account was false banned years ago and I was constantly told that the decision was 100% correct and that there was nothing I can do, I was pretty down about it for months, and the gaslighting from the community was just gross, but thankfully I was able to get my account looked at on Twitter by Tyran who reviewed it and quashed it and said it was a mistake, all I got was a quick sorry with no explanation. I've had no issues since but I can't deny that I get anxious whenever I do a considerably big grind as I know first hand that a false ban can happen anytime. It needs to be addressed and I think RS content creators such as yourself are the only way that it's going to happen.
They are false banning players and unbanning only visible players. Really hate the hostile enviorement the playerbase has build, where jagex gets away with this. There needs to be better player support for fixing these things.
if youre in europe cant you use GDPR to request any information they have stored in regards to you personally which should include any proof of botting?
it's not a new issue, Jagex have been doing this for years. My main on RS2 was banned when they released the "new" botting bashing thing and they told me to essentially go fuck myself because they don't make mistakes.
How about instead of a customer support team in india like you suggested, we keep it more osrs related and base them in Venezuela?
It's actually wild asf how little Jagex cares about the player base. They really are out of pocket for not addressing this. I can forgive mistakes, but blatantly ignoring a system of theirs that effects all of us potentially is such a terrible look. Do better.
This is wild! Something is fundamentally broken with this system
Bots are keeping the game alive. They know what they’re doing.
as an rs3 player, I fear playing old school because I could get falsely banned and lose all my progress in rs3 as well. So stupid. I’ve never had problems like this playing rs3
Did they ever go back and stop banning people for trading between players? My friend plays, and if I let him borrow my T-Bow I'm afraid there might be a chance that we get banned because if he trades with someone in his guild who just happened to real world trade, the system would check who was connected to the RW trader and who those other people were trading with and ban everyone linked to them like they did a while back.
I got a mute, appealed it, and the mute got even longer lol
Yea, they will punish if you try to appeal. It makes them think you're saying they're wrong.
there is corrupt mod skynet he just mute - perm mute players never show any evidence
I genuinely believe someone at jagex is stealing players accounts then selling the gold and banning those accounts for macro major.
My first original OG account with over a year of playtime between rs2/rs3/OSRS was hacked and banned when I got really into an ironman account and hadn't logged into the main for a while.
I appealed twice and can't appeal again.
Its name was my (pretty common) last name with no numbers or spaces, so it sucks that I can't even get that back...
It had 2fa, but was using an email which was deactivated, so it wasn't receiving emails. I have no idea how it was even hacked. I explained this in my appeal but now I assume it wasn't even looked at...
If a human reviewed the account's activity I'm confident they could find evidence of my innocence.
Man I would love to look at all the ban appeals lmao some content right there
@KingCondor I got false banned on my 99 mage account that I use to alc with my feet while I work. Yes, I taped the bottom of a mouse so it doesn't move and I would alc all day long while working. I appealed because they said I was using 3rd part software, despite using Runelite and the main client. I can't make another appeal because it is locked out. I realize this is the typical "I swear I wasn't botting" response you see on reddit, but I truly wasn't doing anything but alcing with my toe lmao. Is there any other way to appeal now that I have once? I feel like they said they were looking into changing the system after all the false bans, but haven't heard anymore on this.
I swear to God I was muted by being reported by a bot
getting banned in runescape is part of the nostalgia. see when you get falsely banned you get to go over to the library and apply an appeal. big brained
It doesn't matter, there is no chance for justice for those without a voice, better start streaming guys otherwise you'll be forced to start a new account and accept defeat silently.
Unless you are streamer or live to prove anything… if getting banned there is zero interaction or care to do anything…. The system is fked up…. 😅
The game is dead. This was the final straw. Thank God
@@thelegacyofgaming2928 it's not dead though it's popular enough
The osrs ban system is a bit like when you’re driving & a cop starts driving behind you & you know you aren’t doing anything illegal but you get some irrational thought through your head like fuck what if I got a body in the trunk or I am doing something illegal even tho you’re not.. That’s how I feel with the banning system like I know I’m not doing anything wrong but what if I am so not overlord an I didn’t even know it😭😭
Not sure who was it but I saw a video not too long ago where somebody did an interview with botters and this is a genuine strategy. They blatantly bot with a different IP to maximize profit and then appeal and repeat until they eventually get properly permad.
Great informative video as always my Aussie king
The appeal system was automated 15+ years ago and still is. Lol
How the fuck do they get unbanned. Meanwhile i had a nearly max main hacked 5years ago and get an unapealable ban 3 days after acc recovery and being cleaned
like nikita said, Why just ban them when you can team up and make money together. Jagex is no diff than a lowlife cheater cause THEY ARE IN ON IT.
The remote desktopers I think are paying people to play for them while they sleep or something. There is no way to prove it either
I must of got lucky a year ago, I made a pure and swapped my tbow to it from my main almost daily to pet hunt .
Got my max cape account back after false ban
I think one raising issue which not many people may realize is that people are getting older/new players are young. On average young people tend to lie a lot, just a fact. I know I have used auto clicker for high alching way back on my 1st iron and it's really not that hard to see someone who got caught doing it denying it. Especially since ppl have so little faith on Jagex nowdays it's like a free joker card you can always play. I do think Jagex has room for improvement in their system and there definitely are false bans that happen but you shouldn't speculate when you don't have any of the real data or understanding in your hands.
bro take these images with a grain of salt. youre taking these images at 100% truth, but in reality, i dont trust botters AT ALL.
If you turn your attention to the very beginning of the video, I'm certain i state that these may not be real, but there are a lot of them and it would be a stretch to have this fabricated, mix that in with the large amount of accused false bans at the moment and the fact that Jagex's original claim to only have 30~ false bans at the start of the year to already be well over tripled, and we have seen reputable content creators being false banned, I think its more than fair to have this discussion, I did not take these images at 100% truth and clearly stated that numerous times, but I appreciate your opinion and your concerns have been noted
You only know these are botters if you believe the images are real anyway lol
@@KingCondorits probably way more than we know because not everyone has a platform or even bothers to try to appeal the ban. Jagex are lying about 30 or whatever false bans, its probably more in the ballpark of 500
Trust me. This is 100% real 😂
I used to bot, got some accounts with similar appeal reactions. Since they are perm banned after a new ban, i can provide login details and u can see it for yourself if you wish.
can confirm that they unban botters, at the beginning of the release of oldschool ( was still young and stupid) I botted on my first account that i had ever made, waited abit and then appealed the ban and got unbanned.
I have 2 accounts that got false banned. One was in 2018, which is still banned to this day.
off topic, but i'm coming back, waiting on recovery, lost access to that email but atleast ive got my max zerker (stupid acc) back for now. hope to see you around condor, what worlds do you play in?
(for context ive been in your chats for a while now, name changed my u2b)
God watching this after quitting for FFXIV is painful. Jagex is just shooting themselves in the foot over and over jfc.
You can delete botting from Runescape overnight, but lets be honest, half the playerbase is buying and selling gold. You could remove free trade but the community is so unbelievably dumb that they cry about it the moment someone mentions it.
I might be an idiot but: we already have the volunteer Pmod system, why not use them. Every single pmod I know would happily dedicate half a hour a day/week/month what ever Jagex decides to review appeals.
Makes me wanna quit until this fix it
I actually quit the game because of this lol. They banned a new character I made, 4 hours into gameplay of only killing goblins and chopping trees. Apparently, playing the game normally = macroing 😂This game is going to die VERY quickly with more of these stories coming out. Too risky to play.
@thelegacyofgaming2928 Exactly. I just got banned on a pure I was working on. 10 hours down the drain. At least it happened 10 hours in and not 1,000 hours in.
Rest in Pieces, Jagex.
The appeal system works like that because it's operated by Computer, there is no human involved, I don't remember on top of my head when this was stated, but I have a former jmod Mat K in record, stating that the system is completely automated, and it checks for 3 steps. 1 Did this account commit this Crime, 2 Was the account under the hijack, 3 Was the penalty justified? All 3 steps have to confirm in order for Robot to Deny the appeal and. VPN covers your ass so Step 2 fails, yes account was hijacked, appeal accepted. Remember These are Words from Mat K's mouth.
how does account locked mean unbanned... that seems the opposite to me
more like ban granted and account locked...
yeah i got banned for botting but it was because my account was actually hacked lol. i was so confused why the account was banned because i hadn't played in months and i tried to log in and it didn't let me. only through twitter message with mod ash was I able to get unbanned. ridiculous
I know this is anecdotal but I got banned 3 times for botting and each time I appealed mod twisted emailed me and apologized for it
So bots get unbanned but my 18 year old account got macro major ban in Dec 2021, while i haven't played for 6 years and my appeal got denied. Jagex are the worst company around.
i think this happened to "mastyythegee" small youtuber. few micro major bans then manual perm banned
They perm banned my account for botting when all I did was afk blast furnace pump lol, jagex are unhinged man
doubt
AFK gets flagged for botting, so you can't afk while playing unless you want to risk losing everything
This is why they tried banning all 3rd party clients. They can only tell if you're using the official client or not
Not true. I got banned using the Legacy java client. They claimed they detected 3rd party client. It's all automated - Jagex is incompetent.
@@Dylan-qb8br Most people still using the java client are cheaters. There's no reason to still be using it.
They could tell you were using the legacy client, and that helps prove my point lol
@OMGnanerpus Yes, I'm certain Jagex is banning people who use their own downloadable client from their website.
What a great company to invest your time into. RIP lmao
@@Dylan-qb8br Its not downloadable anymore and hasn't been for a while. You can only use it if you've had it downloaded for a while. Very few people still use that client, so they can watch it closely now.
I dont understand how people get banned I build accounts to 2k ttl running 8hrs a day have built atleast 20 accs so far and not a single ban and I've sold every account no issues
You’re not getting banned because you’re not a real player.
The actual bots aren't getting banned. Did you watch the video?
@thelegacyofgaming2928 bro I'm trolling lol
At this point I’m questioning myself why I’m NOT just botting like wtf man this is crazy
So if all of these screenshots are real I think it might be safe to say that there might be some Jamflex insider in the ban department screwing with the code.
Im sure false bans happen rarely but the amount of people who claim false bans doesnt make sense. Ive played since 2008 and the only time ive been banned temp or perm was for botting in 2010. Havent botted after that ban and havent been banned since.
You are lucky asfk... I was banned for botting on my iron which Made no Sense, i was in a Bingo with my cc and was typing most of the Time, appealed insta denied, so had to wait for the temp ban to remove itself...tried to catch up To the bingo guys who were ahead, later , like a month or two after i was banned again for botting, again when livestreaming to the clan, it Made absolutely no Sense bc i was false banned i got into the discord clan AND streamed it every Time i played. 😂
Was Perm banned AND spent weeks trying to contact customer support from jagex for nothing.
Cashbacked the yearly subscripction off jagex i was paying because it was stupid...
Happens along with the account locking more then you'd like to think. If you even try to recover an account without 100% info the same ip or of you swapped from say spectrum to att its basically gone for ever.
Either im the luckiest person to ever play or you guys are the unluckiest. Ive used vpns and remote desktop from 1000 miles away. Ive changed internet providers 5 times in the 15 years ive played and ive never had any problems except the one time i actually botted.
ah yes, I dont get false banned thus balse bans dont happen, got it
People with this mindset are truly immature. "It didn't happen to me, so it doesn't happen"
Domi just bots lots of accounts.
For each account with 10 successful appeals he probably has 50 accounts that were insta denied on first pffence. Each appeal is 50/50 chances of getting appeal accepted.
Vpns need to be banned from video games altogether.
Perm Banned my 10k hour main for an autoclicker. meanwhile, obvious script bots run rampant.
My strictly cooking alt got banned the day I bought a new bond and hit 50m cooking exp. Was per player moderator comment which is bs when I afk cooked on my main and alt for a month but because it had 50m cooking, I feel it was a false ban
For context, my alts banned for botting while I afk cook and watch anime, utilizing the runelite notification ping. If that gets you banned per "pmod comment" then maybe it shouldn't be a thing 🤔
Idk 15 years never had an issuse. I guarantee they had something on thier computer that set off the alarms. They got stuff to scan the computer for curtain software that may be used for botting or hacking even if your aren't your playing with fire.
I got banned for macroing and I never botted…
Just happened to me last night as well.
Haha he said he dont think his friend that has been hacked 3 times would risk botting. Yeah ok dude that is the 1 type of person who would risk it. That being said ive been false banned for training 1 skill at a time. You need to train all skills like bots do to avoid ban.