Jagex brings you more banning!

Yes thats right, anyone doing the pvp glitch (not 25k trick, but the glitch) will be permanently banned! Fuck you Andrew Gower!

Andrew
Jagex Mod

13-Apr-2009 10:06:33
Since the recent PvP glitch is causing some discussion, I'd better post a quick explanation.

There was a bug in PvP which some players were abusing to gain high drop potential unfairly. (i.e to get money which they hadn't earned)

As far as I can tell this was first discovered by a player on Easter Saturday, and how to do it became fairly widespread knowledge early on Easter Sunday.

I was alerted to the problem when chatting to some players on my clan chat early on Easter Sunday morning. I immediately went into work and fixed it there and then, so it isn't happening anymore. The bug was therefore not abused for very long.

It also wasn't possible to abuse the bug unless you were a member, and there was minimum level requirements, so the impact was limited by that. It also meant people couldn't abuse it on 'throwaway' accounts.

To the players who were stupid enough to deliberately abuse this bug on their members accounts, all I can say is, why!?! What on earth made you think that was a good idea? You know we have in depth logs and can and do catch people who abuse major bugs.

We haven't banned anyone yet, there is no massive rush as all the activity is logged anyway. On Tuesday once everyone is back from the easter break, and we have the staff to go through the logs very very carefully we'll do that then. We obviously don't want to risk banning anyone incorrectly, so it takes a bit of effort.

But if you *deliberately* abused the bug (or tried to abuse it after we fixed it), you should be very very afraid. I cant imagine why anyone thought it was a good idea to try!

Andrew
Jagex Mod

13-Apr-2009 10:07:22
Last edited on 13-Apr-2009 10:23:24 by Andrew
I should mention that it's fairly easy for us to distinguish between players who did it by accident and players who did it on purpose.

Luckily it was quite hard to do by accident anyway. (in fact this bug was in the game for a while before it was discovered, which shows how obscure it was). Also people doing it on purpose were using absurd amounts of cash and/or extremely valuable items they would have no reason to possibly do that with normally.

Finally we'll also obviously take into account how many times it was done/attempted, and if the person reported it as a bug promptly afterwards.

But like I say it's quite easy for us to tell anyway.

I'm not going to give exact details, because it *is* still logging people who try it. Trying to abuse a bug is just as bad, so please don't 'test' it. You don't want to get caught up in this.

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Edit added afterwards, answers to questions asked lower down this thread:

People who only killed people using the glitch obviously won't be banned! Because they had no way of knowing the person they were killing was using a glitch. It would be silly to ban them.

We will generally give people the benefit of the doubt of course. Which means yes a few people might get away with it. But many won't, and ask yourself, was it really a risk worth taking?

I should also mention it's not a huge number of accounts we are talking about here. It's nothing like the 50% figure some are throwing about. It's a tiny minority of players who think the rules don't apply to them, and that it's ok to cheat. (was that a shot at us....?)

Source, http://forum.runescape.com/forums.ws?74,75,841,58678936,goto,1.

 

Idiots, but thanks,

 

Rofl..

 

woah. thanks for letting us know. i was going to do that glitch all day today.

 

That sucks, Although I never tried/did it.

 

Wow gf Jagex, I wasn't aware there was a PvP glitch going around

 

cAN someone tell me the glitch via pm??will get a 2m xfer guide

 

aww i wish i woulda knew about it before it got fixed

 

Are you stupid, or just want to get banned?

 

What was this PvP glitch anyways?

 

It had something to do with bringing a farmiliar into f2p, not completely sure about it. I'll have the real bug when my friend gets on. Jethr0x's main will be banned rofl he made 30m off of it.

 

rofl Gf Jehr0x

 

what bug? let us know we don't want accidental get banned >.<

 

I laugh at this. I think Gower is just waiting it out to make the players suffer in their fear of being banned. (It's what I would do if I were the owner of the game..)

 

Another stupid move by Fagex

 

I like how he says that it was "a small and obscure glitch" even though everyone on sythe knows about it.

 

Impressive, i've always laughed at those who get cool accs banned for abusing a glitch, as andrew said, stupid. xD

 

:S hope I don't get banned but I hate jagex :S

 

I was aware of the trick I think everyone is, but didnt know about the glitch thanks for the heads up

 

God, I hope my account doesn't Meet the BanHammer.