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Mod MMG on Myths and Misconceptions
Topic Started: 5 Apr 2014, 12:26 PM (780 Views)
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Hi Everyone,

I have been reading a lot of messages from players on my Twitter account and there seems to be a few misconceptions out there about the composition of our community, the effect of bots on player concurrency and what apparently constitutes the average player. I thought I would address all of these for the benefit of everyone in this dev blog.

Our community is composed of 84% Men and 16% Women players and 90% play RuneScape in English (Gender & Age statistics based on a world wide survey we commissioned of tens of thousands of active players). So what does the ‘average’ RuneScape Player look like?

  • Created their account in 2009
  • Has total level 1614
  • Is highest in woodcutting and strength
  • Is lowest in farming and divination

And despite rumours that everyone in RuneScape is very rich, the truth is only 1% of players have over 1 Billion GP in total wealth.


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  • Pre-bot nuke, we had 200k dodgy accounts getting into the game every day and botting until banned, at the time it would take several weeks and multiple player reports before being banned.
  • We absolutely smashed that with bot nuke in 2011 – 95% disappeared overnight. Bot developers adapted though and within a year they were back up to their old volumes.
  • These new accounts found themselves in a much harsher environment though, battling our latest in-game tech which was banning them ever-quicker than before.
  • Since 2013 we brought a range of next generation anti-botting technology allowing us to detect all bots within hours with 100% certainty. We ban bots at random intervals a few days after first detection so that they never know exactly how they were detected. A side effect of this is that we see many players who had botted prior, try to appeal their bans as they incorrectly believe they were unfairly banned because they are often playing normally when the ban is applied and therefore think we’ve made a mistake and somehow they managed to get away with historic botting. Bots cannot adapt to this new technology leaving them flawed and at a completely manageable trickle.
  • Finally in September 2013 we began focusing on wiping out Gold Farmers, by introducing Bonds. This, along with constant updating of BotWatch, has kept ‘dodgy activity’ at record low levels, in fact rock bottom in the main game.
  • Happily, the volume of bots and gold farmers is lower than ever however we are not complacent and with the success on the main game we are now working on extending our focus to Old School RuneScape.



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  • Gold farmers typically run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • To put that into perspective, our most fanatical top three players on the high scores #1 ‘S U O M I’ plays an average of 07:27.00 hours a day, #2 ‘Drumgun’ plays on average 13:06.00 and lastly #3 ‘Jake’ plays an average of 12:48.00 per day.
  • The average player however only plays just on 2 hours a day in the week and an additional 32 minutes on average on the weekend.

So, with this in mind a single goldfarmer bot used on a weekday would represent the equivalent of 12 ‘real’ players on the “players online now” count and therefore for the first time in a decade our active players represents our true “Players Online Now” numbers.

We also recognise the transition to Evolution of Combat was too big a change for some, and we sadly lost some of our community with the update. However, we are making huge strides to now give players the choice as to which combat system they would prefer with the introduction of Revolution and the work currently being undertaken on ‘Legacy Mode’, which will bring back much of the old combat gameplay and interfaces, in the main game alongside Evolution of Combat. Thankfully we did see a lot of these lapsed players return to Old School RuneScape instead.

Net result? Concurrent players is as high over recent months as it was a year prior, with more players returning to RuneScape and thousands of new players joining our amazing community than at any time in the last year. We’ve even seen counter seasonal positive growth the past quarter.

RuneScape is a game and a social network, for me it’s always been about hanging out with friends, old and new. If you have old friends who may have left this is a great year for them to come back.

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Thanks,

Mod MMG


Some more stats as requested below for the lovers of data:

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I have to admit, I like MMG, he's a very genuine and funny guy.

These are interesting facts, they include RS3 and OSRS players so what you're seeing is representative of everyone with an account.
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MMG's Twitter is so surprising, such a funny guy lol, he doesn't even care what other people think of him nor what they think of him as CEO of Jagex... such a laugh

And yeah interesting stats here, surprised at the low percentage of players from Australasia region having played on those world myself before joining TBE, they were always booming, made lots of different friends there
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MMG's Twitter is so surprising, such a funny guy lol, he doesn't even care what other people think of him nor what they think of him as CEO of Jagex... such a laugh

And yeah interesting stats here, surprised at the low percentage of players from Australasia region having played on those world myself before joining TBE, they were always booming, made lots of different friends there
So many talk bad about him, and even about the things you have identified as positives - such as how he is on Twitter. These statistics are really fun to read, as are the ones released by one of the Jagex Mods on Twitter every now and then. How the legitimacy of some of these numbers is already being questioned - Drumgun claims he plays 17 hours/day rather than the 13 hours which is posted in the report by MMG. Though this might just be that Drumgun forgot to add a few days when he was unable to play as much or a different time period has been used to gather the results.

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Drumgun only plays 13 hours a day though, What a filthy casual.
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drumgun's ehp is **** compared to the time he has spent on rs :P
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drumgun's ehp is **** compared to the time he has spent on rs :P
EHP is impossible to calculate on RS3 because the xp rates change every other week with updates/TH promotions and you have buckets of bonus exp and xp lamps skewing the equation.

But yeah, his efficiency isn't all that good, all things considered.
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