The community director said this game has 1%-9% bots.
Yet the game is currently peaking in player numbers.
What’s causing this?
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The community director said this game has 1%-9% bots. Yet the game is currently peaking in player numbers.
Boomer nostalgia
whatever boomers are left have too much arthritis pains to play something like runescape
I know this 20-year-old instagram bawd who posts stories of herself in kneesocks mining on f2p accounts so she gets free bonds
Zoomers play OSRS?
share pls?
ayy senpai you can't just say this and then not drop the source baka
Dessert treasure 2 is coming out .
No way player numbers are peaking just because of a quest
Desert Treasure 2 100% can bring people to the game. It's the quest everyone remembers fondly.
>No way player numbers are peaking just because of a quest
quests especially GM ones are always accompanied by big content updates
idiots chasing the high of the early 00's and extremely autistic individuals(see idiots above) demanding to see every skill at 99
>1%-9% bots.
I call bullshit
>1-9%
didn't mod mat k, the old director say it was averaging 20-25% bot numbers?
It seems like it's gotten significantly WORSE in the last 2 years. I can go on any world and see most bosses have an unending trail of bots moving to and from the instance 24/7, many in the top 100 on the leaderboards for kc (meaning thousands of kills).
When did he say 20-25%? If it was in 2012 or whatever they had way worse anti-cheat back then
No, after he left, not that long ago in an interview on one of the like 80 thousand osrs "podcasts". It was a pretty popular topic but I can't find the link at the moment. He still mentions bot rates being very high in his streams though, said so last week even that it seems like the rates are getting higher based on his own experiences.
How does he know the bot rates after he left when they implemented way better anti-cheat?
Because he knows the actual systems and can see with the eyes in his skull that there are more bots than there ever were before?
I'm more inclined to believe the words of a (former) game director than literal whos on plebbit. And since gayex won't speak up on the matter as more and more worlds have content like wildy bosses ENTIRELY locked by bots, they incentivize botting by instancing stuff like tithe farm, and more, it seems like they want bots, to try and monetize them.
So you are saying he doesnt believe the modern anti-cheat systems work at all?
There's bots on the highscores who are literally top page for skills and bosses. They would have to be running 24/7 for months straight to achieve that. They don't get banned until people start crying about it on Reddit. Its a problem they don't actually want to fix because it makes them a shitload of money, so they just make more content instanced so you don't see them.
But at the end of the day, all your examples are straight up reddit. Its not concrete numbers, something only the devs have.
Mod Mat K was the only relevant argument you had and you havent posted the source or when he said it
>it's not concrete numbers
????
it's jagex provided.
Go look at the oldschool hi scores. No I will not link it as you'll claim I'm fudging it. Go ahead, look at any instanced boss.
So, if I see on hiscores theres a few bots. Does that mean the bot numbers are 25%? 50%? 1%
How do you actually go from seeing bots on hi-scores extrapolating the actual bot numbers? You're just taking about your feel and you seeing bots in cooks guild
Thats fine, im just pointing out, the community director says 1%-9% depending on the time of day
grug see ice mountain in water, but when grug see under water grug see a even bigger ice mountain.
if bots are allowed at the tippy top, they are there at the lower levels at greater numbers
So, you do not see any relevance to the fact the top percentile of players by killcount, equating to THOUSANDS of hours (for bots like vorkath that also have a few dozen hours minimum stat and questing beforehand, and also have tens of thousands of kills equating to at the VERY least 1000, likely more hours) are left free to sit upon the hi scores?
It shows at the very very very bare minimum negligence from jagex, but the NATURAL extrapolation from the fact they allow many bots to sit free after thousands of hours, means there must be thousands, nay, tens of thousands of bots left free otherwise. That would fit in the 1-9%. Look now at more than just vorkath, and the wildy bosses, look with your EYES at popular resource gathering spots, on every single world, mlm is filled with plain old, obvious as frick, SUICIDE BOTS. That aren't banned, despite having twenty, thirty, up to a hundred million mining XP. This is not an argument or some "hurr jagex bad" shit, it is plain and simple that the owners do not care about maintaining the game's quality. They're more interested in pushing more and more novelty modes, gimmicks like ctc, and pumping out garbage content that ignores actual player wishes. Or are we going to pretend they didn't fumble the frick out of the new prayerbook (now scrapped, btw, and will very likely never be revisited) because they decided to change the prayers after people voted on them?
The top percentile of players by killcount being bots should not be surprising at all, though. I mean yea it is a surprise that they arent more efficient at banning them but in a vacuum with no bans, every hiscore would be a bot simply because a bot can go 24/7
I'm not the anon you were talking to before, just adding to what he was saying from what I had seen when I was still playing earlier this year. The anti-cheat system really does seem broken. I don't have numbers or figures or anything, I don't even play anymore.
>wow sucks ass
>ff14 has a content drought
>its summer
Not playing your forced troony parade game
>Not playing your forced troony parade game
qrd?
>changes to game are polled
>LGBTWTFBBQ changes and troony event not polled because they know it'll never get accepted
I watched a video of a bot that was linked to chatGTP and was having conversations with other players. It's only a matter of time until bots become undetectable. It might actually make the game feel more alive than it has in years funnily enough.
Interesting he's saying 9% and not higher. It reminds of the psychological trick of pricing a product at 9.99 because 10 seems far higher.
the game has 1%-9% bots then 75% gold farmers rwters and the last 25% are the autistic whales keeping the croatian families fed
it's somewhat free, can be played easily from any device, and has enough repetitive tasks that reward the player almost instantly, so you can feel you're progressing even if you just played 30 mins a day
But that was true last year, and the year before that. Why is it peaking now?
wasn't it peaking already in those years?
>The community director said this game has 1%-9% bots.
If you believe this you're in some kind of weird ass denial I've never even heard of. Realistically, the game is more like 40% bots, at least.
>1-9%
Lamo, do people actually believe this shit. A realistic very conservative estimate is 30%, probably 40%+ though since a lot of people use custom scripts which are near undetectable.
And that is not counting the goldfarmers actually playing and multiboxing 12+ accounts.
>1-9%
Its higher than that for sure, that's the propaganda number. If you include gold farmers from 3rd world countries, its likely around 25-30%. I played for a while but quit because the combat is really just boring to me. I don't get how people like the click and wait combat.
>I don't get how people like the click and wait combat.
Your meant to do something on the side like watch tv/streams or play another game.
>tfw they could instantly ban most bots but would lose so much revenue from their memberships they'd go bankrupt
This whole threads is summer as frick.
troony post
sometimes i wish i could go back to runescape the way it was in 2005, too bad it got taken over by homosexual Black folk that need to show off how much they love aids buttsex.
nobody that still works there actually cares about the game. almost all of the people that did care about runescape left or got fired. the only people that still work there have 0 passion about the game and only show up for a paycheck and to include Black person troony aids.
Get a life freak
funny thing to say in a thread about an MMORPG. none of you troony incel fricks have a life yourself all you do is groom kids.
disgusting homosexual
Imagine being this obsessed about LGBT in every thread. Go the frick back to /misc/ we dont want you here
Go the frick back to R6ddit we dont want you here homosexual
I seriously hope none of you are mentally ill enough to even consider a namegay human.
there are no namegays in this thread low iq moron sage goes in all fields
Did they revert the gay changes yet?
they will never revert the gay changes. the only people working on the game are LGBT loving groomers and disgusting trannies
Ah okay. 2009scape over lan it is for me then.
What gay changes?
they added gay ribbons and shit, didn't they?
Yea they added gay boots back in 2006