Arceus Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Mod Reach has been "dismissed" from Jagex (make of that verb what you will) as of today, apparently, due to "serious misuse of moderator privileges." It is with regret that we have some sad and unfortunate news to share with you. Today, Mod Reach was dismissed from employment at Jagex, following an investigation into serious misuse of moderator privileges. This was flagged to us by system checks which track and log code changes made to the live game. We were able to intercept the intended changes before anything could impact the game economy. While staff changes are not something we tend to share so publically, when both the integrity of the game and the team are put at risk we felt duty bound to make the community aware of what has happened. Obviously this unexpected news means we need some time to collect our thoughts and formulate plans for future projects. Once we have pulled all of this together we will of course share and discuss this with the community. Due to the sensitivities of the situation we are not going to be able to give any more detail at this time. We are determined to ensure Mod Reach’s departure does not detract from the great start to the year we have had. We want both the team and community to go from strength to strength and to take Old School RuneScape forward onto bigger and better things for many years to come. Thank you for your ongoing support. I may have been living under a rock but I did not see this coming. I know there were issues with other moderators and unconfirmed reports/screenshots of abuse in the past floating around Reddit and whatnot, but is anyone as surprised as me to see this statement from Jagex? I know they aren't ready to share this information of specifically what happened yet, but I suppose it's good to see them taking a stand against this sort of stuff. "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Rip Zeah ... 1 In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElysianWolf Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Strange news. Didn't expect this at all. Considering he started to work at Jagex in 2010, kind of weird he would do something like this now. Must be a reason. Scapin' since September 2007 and Hardcore Ironwoman since October 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixfd64 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 This is just a wild guess, but from the sound of the announcement, it's possible that he introduced a logic bomb or something similar. ARENAscape: Baratus [AS] max hit: 166 with Moon Battle Hammer ixfd64 [AS] max hit: 116 with (untitled spell #2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Dash Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I think it had something to do with messing with the drop rates of the Corporeal Beast. Apparently this guy has always been shady and friendly with the dicers/rwters, so not really a surprise. 1 “I had a feeling we weren’t coming back from this fight when it began.”“Do you have any regrets?”“I don’t. It seems surprising, I know, but I wouldn’t change a thing. This is how it was meant to be.”“Huh, you never really notice how lovely the day is until you realize you’ll never see it again.”“Mmmhmm.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayc3399 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Mod Matt K replied on Reddit saying it had nothing to do with corp beast. Quest Cape Achieved on November 14, 2007Items AcquiredCrystal Pick and HatchetBerzerker Ring x 33/28 Barrows Items Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazhar Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 sad day for OSRS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bxpprod Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Makes me wonder whether this (IF TRUE) would fall under abuse of Mod power idk. rip osrs guy tho 1 [bleep] OFF HOW ARE U SO [bleep]ING LUCKY U PIECE OF [bleep]ING SHIT [bleep] [bleep] [wagon] MUNCHER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambler Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Major blow to the OSRS Team, and it'll have a slight impact on RS3 too as they're gonna need to drag a couple of devs over to compensate. Pretty sure the coding was a 50:50 split between Ash/Reach. 1 ^^My blog of EoC PvM, lols and Therapy.^^My livestream- Currently: Offline :(Offical Harpy Therapist of the Mad[hide=Lewtations]Barrows drops: Dharok's helm x2, Guthan's helm, Ahrim's top, Hood and skirt, Torag's hammers, Karils skirt, Karil's top, Torag's helm, Verac's skirt, Verac's Flail, Dharok's Platebody.Dag kings drops: Lost count! :wall:4k+ Glacors, 7 Ragefires, 4 Steadfasts, 4 Glaivens, 400+ shards![/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieven Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I'm more or less guessing this is something to do with management within jagex? Or perhaps a factor that plays part is how horribly devs are paid to do their job.Shame he's killed his career within the gaming industry forgood =(Dan was always nice and helpful towards me and at least was honest about how he often felt about the direction rs was going "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 So...not to bump an old topic without cause, but I found this tweet browsing on another site about the increased ruby bolt spec (from the Diary reward) being buffed to (unjustifiably high) levels at Corp, at least temporarily before they were redoing it...think that potentially had anything to do with things? "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazhar Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 doubt it, was prob just poor coding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggiwhplar Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Apparently there was a bug that made you invincible and so people made dozens of bots to farm corp. One guy made like $50,000 from drops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kepler22 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 80k corps were botted. Return of Wildy interviewed the guy, it's on Youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxingmck Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Ive heard he was trying to fix the 6hr NMZ afking even though it didnt pass in the polls. If so thats idiotic to fire him, considering nerfing the free NMZ runes never passed either Noobs: We pay we sayJaGeX: How much will you pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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