Jagex is closing down botsites

[Guthorm]

I saw a topic on RSOF about Jagex closing down botsites, so I did a google search and they seems to be right. Rsbot.org, one of the biggest bot site is shutdown. I took a screenshot

 

EDIT: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2010/d2010-0680.html

 

This I believe is the take down process, taken from RSC.

 

 

 

Err, discuss?

[AndJusticeForOne]

About time they took some real action against the bots. Hopefully, this will continue.

[Mojo_Monkey]

Yay....!

1.bye bye bots

2.buy dragon bones or red chins

3.??????

4.profit!!!!

 

yes or no

[tofuhamster]

They just changed their website name.

[demby123]

It's about time JaGex took the fight elsewhere instead of in-game.

 

They'll be back though.

[anonymouse_]

That website moved, they have a different name now. They did not get shut down. Sorry to disappoint.

 

They just changed their website name.

Beat me to it :wall:

[Guthorm]

That is strange, why would they post a page like that when moving?

[tofuhamster]

It was forced to change website names,because it contained "rs" in the site name.

[Grimy_Bunyip]

I think it's a step in the right direction :)

if only they could actually punish botters, because just banning em for 21 days, or even permanently probably wouldn't cut it ,.,

[Logdotzip]

The site has moved to .net

 

.org was shut down because the bots used client injection, the .net ones don't

 

 

KBot is shut down however

[Guthorm]

The site has moved to .net

 

.org was shut down because the bots used client injection, the .net ones don't

 

 

KBot is shut down however

 

Rsbot.net? Because it didn't connect when I tried that.

[anonymouse_]

The site has moved to .net

 

.org was shut down because the bots used client injection, the .net ones don't

 

No, .net is a different bot, that's the paid one. This is still .org

 

 

KBot is shut down however

This is true though, but it was never really that big

[Range_This11]

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a ploy to downsize what they were doing in order to keep Jagex guessing? Who knows, but it's funny as hell that they posted that page.

[langer]

I would lie if I didn't think this was good news. I just hope a more permanent solution can be implemented. Permaban and credit card "ban" would solve the bot problem, but it might be too costly for Jagex seeing as many vheaters would simply stop playing.

[Carl]

There's actually been a lawsuit in progress for over a year now concerning that particular website and its creators;

 

http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?id=54191

[FooK-A-Ji]

I would lie if I didn't think this was good news. I just hope a more permanent solution can be implemented. Permaban and credit card "ban" would solve the bot problem, but it might be too costly for Jagex seeing as many vheaters would simply stop playing.

They could only shut it down because the website name is similar to Runescape, and the content supposedly encouraged browsers to go to other games in direct competition with Runescape, lol.

[Bows]

Eh, it was bound to happen eventually. Jagex is moving in the right direction with actions like this, though. :thumbup:

[@Dan3HitU]

It always happens, they'll never shut down for good.

[Bladewing]

You can never stop botting, just like you can never stop the drug trade. The harder you suppress it, the more profitable it becomes to make up for the risk.

[Maximusa]

Hopefully in short long term it will impact those pesky hunter bots each week when I have to get my strange rocks.

 

Couple weeks back one glitched up and kept following my traps as I was hunting. It couldnt hunt itself. Bloody annoying having it follow me whole time... <_<

 

As for a larger impact on the game this can only be a great thing. :thumbup: Probably take a few weeks for botters to actually be effected. Plus those sites will just start elsewhere as usual pretty quick.. but it should impact game somewhat positively..

 

..If anything its a good laugh to see their site down anyway.. Most people who leach bots are too thick to find the new site or understand how to click a link for a couple of days and gives those who are intelligent a headache dealing with those people.

[Brodly]

So they remove one site, and then it's back on another domain, don't know why everyone thinks they're making progress.

[Knotch_Blade]

I'm extremely bothered by how much some of you all know about the intimate details of all of this.

[mario_sunny]

Bots always have a counter attack- they'll just make more sites and Jagex will continually hunt them down.

 

But at least with every attack Jagex throws at them less and less people seem to be using bots. Remember in 2006 when there were so many yew bots (you couldn't find a single yew tree in runescape with less than 10 bots), yew logs dropped to around 120gp? Nowadays their numbers seem to have lessened (although there are quite a few).

[Stev]

Bots always have a counter attack- they'll just make more sites and Jagex will continually hunt them down.

 

But at least with every attack Jagex throws at them less and less people seem to be using bots. Remember in 2006 when there were so many yew bots (you couldn't find a single yew tree in runescape with less than 10 bots), yew logs dropped to around 120gp? Nowadays their numbers seem to have lessened (although there are quite a few).

There were so many bots because RWT was a lot simpler for large companies, it was not so much individual users abusing them. Now that profit from RWT has dwindled, large companies no longer need 400 bots all chopping yews such. :P

 

You can never stop botting, just like you can never stop the drug trade. The harder you suppress it, the more profitable it becomes to make up for the risk.

 

Amen!

[Will H]

Reading the link from the OP's post:

 

- In August 2008, the RuneScape game was awarded a Guinness World Record for the most popular free MMORPG with 10 million total registered users.

They'll put that anywhere.