Twilight Ray

Feb 24 2006, 07:21 PM | Post #1

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The following taken from www.runescape.com

24 February 2006 - Rule 12 Reminder

We would like to remind our players that it is against the rules to buy or sell RuneScape items for reallife money.

We have this rule for three reasons: Firstly because we don’t want RuneScape to be just a game in which you can buy your way to success, if we let players start doing this it devalues the game for other players. We feel your status in real-life shouldn’t affect your ability to be successful in the game.

Secondly we cannot see the half of the transaction which occurs outside the game, and if players swap items for external benefits we can’t see, to us it looks like an unbalanced suspicious trade.

Thirdly, often when players attempt to break this rule and sell items for real cash the items are actually stolen, so you could even end up getting in trouble for receiving stolen property. If you purchased an account you might find it suddenly returned to the original rightful owner and yourself out of pocket.

We have recently launched a new tracking system which means we can detect this sort of 'real life' trading very easily. We maintain a list of accounts which are known to sell items in breach of this rule, and watch who trades with them. This means if you buy an item off someone we are watching we will know about it.

We would also like to remind players that there are NO official RuneScape gold websites. Even if the site you are thinking about buying/selling RuneScape gold with looks professional, it doesn't mean it's a service we are running, and you will still get banned for using it.

In the last week we banned 992 accounts for real-world trading related offenses, as we have very reliable methods for spotting this sort of thing now.

We've even had queries from players complaining they didn't receive an item they paid real-life money for - which given it's against the rules anyway seems a strange thing to tell us! So PLEASE make sure you read all our rules, which can be found here.

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Geo1988

Feb 24 2006, 08:08 PM | Post #2

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Good RuneScape ftw. I reported a few people for that sort of thing. Also... I believe I've known someone who should have been banned for it *cough* Wot Wot *cough*

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Twilight Ray

Feb 24 2006, 08:10 PM | Post #3

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QUOTE(Geo1988 @ Feb 24 2006, 03:08 PM) [snapback]46466[/snapback]

Good RuneScape ftw. I reported a few people for that sort of thing. Also... I believe I've known someone who should have been banned for it *cough* Wot Wot *cough*

He wasn't banned? Ugh.

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Swej

Feb 24 2006, 08:32 PM | Post #4

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Damit Swej is banned.











lol jk

This post has been edited by Swej: Feb 24 2006, 08:33 PM

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Loggy

Feb 24 2006, 09:20 PM | Post #5

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I'm surprised Jagex didn't list that if you're obsessed with the game so much as to buy RS stuff for real life money, you should get a life. :\

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Nawzlew

Feb 24 2006, 09:55 PM | Post #6

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^^ Co-sign.

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Jen0side

Feb 24 2006, 09:56 PM | Post #7

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you need to keep on top of the rule breakers good job Jagex

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Aim Sniff

Feb 24 2006, 10:10 PM | Post #8

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Idiots.

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chipmonkey4

Feb 24 2006, 11:19 PM | Post #9

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more cheaters banned lovin it!!

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Shredar

Feb 24 2006, 11:29 PM | Post #10

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lol cheaters owned by jagex again! it never gets old.

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Baakalor

Feb 24 2006, 11:30 PM | Post #11

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QUOTE

We've even had queries from players complaining they didn't receive an item they paid real-life money for

That's like an episode of COPS I saw where the lady flagged down a cop because she gave a guy $20 for some crack and he gave her plaster so she wanted the cop to get her money back for her.

Personally, I think if people get scammed buying RS characters or items off Ebay (or anywhere else outside of RS) they deserve it for being stupid.

It's like buying a car but letting the seller keep the keys.

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Dilbert26

Feb 24 2006, 11:43 PM | Post #12

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Another good thing that Jagex has done. Im always happy to see some bannings. Dont want rs2 to have tons of autoers and such.

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Aim Sniff

Feb 25 2006, 12:57 AM | Post #13

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How the hell is that autoing. Autoing is a program running a script to play the game for you. It has nothing to do with selling Gp for real life cash.

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chipmonkey4

Feb 25 2006, 01:21 AM | Post #14

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he said and such...they can just buy thier way to a high lvl....

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Aim Sniff

Feb 25 2006, 01:23 AM | Post #15

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Thats still not autoing and you can't really buy levels of [Name Deleted] now can you?

DBA Edit: Deleted the place's name where you could buy Runescape things for RL money. Don't want to be giving anyone any ideas on where to break rule #12.

This post has been edited by Deathbyape: Feb 26 2006, 04:22 AM

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