Confirming here that it's very definitely a philshing problem & it tries to stuff up your computer while also sending a heap of money scamming gambling etc emails.

If you go to Microsofts website you can find a free excellent 'Microsoft Security Essentials' that makes sure the problem philshing with "Worm:Win32/Ainslot.A" is always found & deleted. The final fix is to remove all contact & emails from Jagex and today starting my computer it asked if I wanted to report an error of my computer so I said yes & it shows the software for the DVD player has been interferred with. I was able to report it to Windows and requested they get the World Wide Web monitoring group to find the problem to save the web for gaming and everything else.

MOMs & DADs and all DONT PLAY RUNESCAPE ANY MORE as it's been taken over by disgusting people now!

Don't be so ignorant just because you haven't experienced being hacked yourself.

There was a way a while ago to hack accounts without a pass and thats what a little brat did to my almost 10 years playing & mostly paying. Runescape is probably the least safe online game to play and full of lies aswell. It's a long time since RS was the No.1 Free Tp Play game but just because failed accounts & multiple bot accounts are all recorded as having existed once they include all this false info. Then there's high scores which if you have any idea of maths you can work it out for yourself that those are all 24/7 botted accounts thus high scores is false too - Dungeneering in it's first 100 days showed the leadr then averaged 670k experience per day including from lvl1.

Don't believe anything and just tread cautious in life. Don't feel destroyed like me and just forget about playing this old game that used to be good but has been too pulled apart and ends up too contradictory.

Enjoy your life and play your X-Box or Playstation as thats the one they can't ruin to waste your life.

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They are also sending this & this other one out. Heaps of scamming & philshing to trap the 1/10th left playing and below is what they sent me when I had stopped for almost a year. So much for nearly 10 years playing and helping all players only to be hacked to bits with a lack of support from Jagex;

Dear Player,

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Originally posted by timeraider

runescape =

storyline: really not bad, not superlong but still enjoyable

pvp: ..right..bit autoattack but ok

graphics: Is the game behind those pixels?

 

:D

 

OH how crazy kids reply here.

storyline: how many years you need to play lots & lots of wasted pixels for levels to see only half the game story now. Get real as by botting no accounts actually know the storyline, those that do have played far too long paying for nothing much at all except over-powered computers beating the rest botting just to sell to real life idiots paying without gaming knowledge. It used to be so dumb a lvl120 asking 'Where is Catherby?' because they just bought an account that was fully botted with too little left to play. How many dummys still buy these stupid accounts?

pvp: whats the point of going into this just to get a few wins before a maxed auto-pvp bot account on a faster computer takes everything you 'feeling a hero' had on you. Any worthwhile accounts they fight and like they note the account name then hack your account needing only your account name.

graphics: this is what every dumb kid demands to be improved but is what slows the game-play down more and more every single update. We used to mine 15-20 coal at lvl50 in a couple of minutes mining when the game was popular with real players but now at over lvl90 mining you are lucky to get 10 coal in 5 minutes (unless of course you bot it to get 20 coal in 5 minutes after running that account over 2 hours as luck improves over time. This game engine failure helps bots yet is why real players get nowhere at all trying to play honestly.

Runescape is about as honest as the pay tv stations are corrupting all the worlds sports these days! Clearly European Soccer is controlled by dishonest referees that are paid by the Pay TV organisations to control who wins for viewers false impressions due to editing of the tape from real games played. This sporting scamming has now gone worldwide and ruined most of the popular teams sporting games so why bother to support any of them now.

I'm not going to put another $ into rugby. I really enjoyed it until the refs in the Super 15 and local competions screwed it up totally. The best teams playing the game honestly have been continuously penalised to the point they have lost the drive to play properly and only disgraceful cheats laying all over the ball illegally get the points on the scoreboard.

It's time to go back to old Playstation 1s & 2s where only you playing works the game. Removing outside influences is the only way to beat gaming and sporting crime.

LOL, you've got to be kidding!

Almost no-ones playing these days. On 1 bot site I saw 1 script has well over 85k Ruinedscape accounts using it being half the total game players these days. I think this script was for mining but of course it makes sense with probably 50 lvl3 solely mining bots in the mine guild alone & how many worlds in total to multiply for the total mining lot since lots at Rimmington Mine aswell as both ends of Varrock too.

Consider it's reasonably common for 1 kid to have 8-10 bot accounts working for their couple of main bot accounts. But then this isn't good for them either since the Chinese & African higher-powered computers run lots more bots again and faster so beat the silly kids to fill up (basically they get those sites scripts & modify them to work better).

Any fool that thinks trying to play this game now is good has no idea of how bad it is. We used to all chat to each other but now it's a crime to talk as when you do you seem like a bot reporter and those superior bots can report you for annoying instead aswell as auto noting your name just to steal your account instead. It used to be nice when it was a family game and 600-700k real people were actually playing back then and levelling did have addictions. Now nothings worth skilling as notice how the bots move to respawns before you even see them on your screen.

Just forget playing as members was best by far but paying for nothing is just filling Jagex pockets and they don't care if it's a bot paying them, they just ban odd site bots now and then to look legit when they aren't legit at all. Times are tougher now so save your cash for something you can actually receive real benefit from.

Also beware that even world sporting games are getting this bad too with refs taking over and determing any sport games direction simply to allow Paid Viewing to edit each game so they make it look legit but instead everything in life is deception simply to fill someone elses pockets!

So now there's another update with new graphics. Thanks to all the kid noodys for demanding better graphics as this is how Fagex have slowed every single ability down now by over 25 times what it used to take to get any item like a log from a tree or ore from a rock or even hitting an enemy (including adding heaps of no hits and changing the damage from 99 to 999) thus all the silly immature kids have no idea of how this game is the worst gaming scam in existance. Now about 95% or more just bot it but amazingly too many idiots must be paying for gear and accounts as too many bots are 1 skill workers. If you calculate it back then probably about 5000 people are playing including babysitting their bots. For the very few still trying to play after so many years, please make them see the light and give up aswell.

It's probably Fagex settings. Especially if your name is like your account they only want their mates & them to bot. Fagex is the most untrustworthy online game company and every time they upgrade grahics for kids to think great, it's more scamming so they slow every skill down more and more.

Eventually lots of computers fail from this and as long as Fagex are making cash, they don't give a dam what happens to any real people at all.

They actually tell their mates the email address & words to use to keep hacking far too many accounts and those of us that played for years and years spending a lot for ourselves and other family have all our cash & work destroyed as every account has been hacked to bits through not fault of ours. It is now at a state of finding international internet policing to sort out those pommy scammers at Fagex. Until Mod Mark Getahardon and the rest get sacked Runescape will never improve.

For now if you want to play make sure that you bot it and try to avoid paying any thing at all for that game.

I've found out from some people close to the friends of Jagex staff the full truth of Runescape failure!

Hacking has happened to over 95% of accounts which aren't simply one stat item collecting bots.

The way the majority of hacking has happened is the Jagex staff tell their mates how to hack accounts just by name and then those so called friends go and tell their mates aswell. In the end lots are knowing how to hack without anything apart from the account name. I know now this is clearly how my account was hacked 3 times. Clearly by trying to be outspoken for honesty and making the game fair, all it does is attract a scum hacker that decides you are a perfect target. Apparently it's the more experienced people in Jagex mostly to blame and such an unfair lot to the decent workers there that they force the honest people out one way or the other. Even these upset people have gone online to let the public know how to hack accounts aswell, but this now hits even more of us honest players.

This simply seems like Internet Fraud and they use the addictiveness of the game to control it.

Originally posted by Jager61

Two words...Customer Service...or the lack thereof.  Try to contact the company. Outside of  the very limited forms you can submit, you can't just pick up the phone and call them for any reason.  You can't send them an email.  It's rediculous. I played this game for about 6 years, maxed out character with several 99 capes, then my account was hacked.  

You'd think the person holding the Credit Card that's been paying for the sub for years would be the one that gets the account, but I don't think an actual person reads any of it.  A bot, locks, unlocks, bans and denies appeals.

I'm curious, has this gotten any better?  Can you pick up the phone and explain a situation to anyone?

 

 

This is whats worse with Runescape than vertually all other games. People playing WOW etc got their accounts back and included the gear they had but NOT in Runescape - what the hacker takes is gone forever. As for what we pay; far too many people don't realise the price has increased from $5US to $7.95US but I know the Australian Dollar is worth more than the US and our NZ Dollar is even more unfairly rated. This is even more proof of how Jagex is similar to the Nigerian bank account hackers as both are trying to take all your money for nothing. I actually think someone that knows how to contact Interpol should inform them how Jagex operates because Jagex actually operate against their own rules that they made for the game!

Then of course I hate the lagg that cuts us out of trying to relax playing. The bott accounts do the same as they take most the gear we try to collect and only to trade to a silly kid that thinks he/she is a hero with max levels although doesn't even know how the game works. So many botters mean such a small community of us real people thus it's hard to have a good conversation now. And of course if you have botters and gold selling sites, the game is so destroyed since High Scores etc don't mean a thing any more

If you think carefully about it:

Jagex claim to have over 1 million f2p players on but it's over 1 million bott accs that makes it vertually impossible for a real person to play the game. Even at 91 mining I had trouble getting ore and I most needed coal but thats by far the hardest to get in f2p. Look in any f2p world in the mining guild and you can always pick out 20 or more botting accounts as even lvl3 hide there when scorpians are outside to make it worse for lower ability real people.

If all F2P botting accounts were removed there would hardly be many people playing. F2P is almost all botts so removing them would leave us free to get experience but then members would quit to join us getting experience for free (we all deserve that from what we have already paid) . The fact is if they weren't so dumb not to do this as then a lot of people would come back to their real accounts. I can't work out why the advertisers on F2P screens haven't got the sense to stop advertising as they have to pay Jagex for it but actually no-one is looking at those ads.

Mod Mark doesn't have a life outside of Runescape and clearly controls the rest of the fools that work there. None of those there will have much computer skills as they would get a far better job somewhere else if they could.  The best fix for this game may come in the form of Jagex shareholders sacking Mark and all the other idiots that make Jagex seem like the biggest scamming company in gaming!

Geez another 5 year old that lacks knowledge of what the game was about. If you haven't got the experience from a long time ago and how the game continually goes more backwards, you lack the ability for a rational comment. Runescape was a game that anyone could play but improving graphics has slowed all movements in skills so badly it takes more than 10 times as long to get what we used to even just 5 years ago

This game will keep going as we have already paid for all the servers many times over aswell as stocked them on new computers for years. Runescape is now a dumping ground for all the hopeless games like Mechscape, it wouldn't work so they just called it a skill named Dungeoneering and wrecked Runescape even more.

So who will play: all Jagex staff - must be hundreds of them & their no-lifer friends, all the support sites who must keep the game alive to keep their own sites active and oh yes, those poor people that only ever wanted one game to play and can never catch up as the gates keep getting moved. Jagex doesn't give a damn about all the people that made the game a success and the ones only on a bit paying for the rest have been treated worst of all. It's amazing that lagg was a problem of RS2 from the start and it's even a lot worse now. Tell your friends to wake up and not pay to find yourself ignored, unrespected and more often not moving or talking at all!

There's already a lot better complaints against the failure of Runescape due to Jagex:

Try here;

To expand to your list, this thread goes into more detail.

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/186136/The-Flaws-of-Runescape.html

What are the POES?

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/180615/We-Vets-need-a-name.html

Jagex are worse as they macro themselves all the time to build the best accounts of all and give themselves the best of every gear to just pass some down to their own mates putting full lies of accounts on YouTube etc. Runescape is probably the only game now where players never get their gear back when they get hacked and the hackers aren't banned even when the owner of the hacked account tells who did it. Considering many played these hacked accounts for years paying members, such accounts cost over $1000 and Jagex have no care or respect to help at all but let a thief stealing that continue to take a lot more accounts in future [hmm, reminds me of the Auckland City Council in New Zealand that double property valuation to scam a lot more from property owners in rates].

If you want to be constructive go to a decent thread, if not just don't put anything up!

I don't pay Jagex anymore to go on the game and I feel so sad for the friends I talk with since they are still paying. Jagex work on the premise that starting the skill levels with so little experience and to do far too much work to max them plays on the expectation that addiction will keep people going regardless of how bad they make things.

There is always so much pathetic debate by mindless selfish kids that just keep asking for better graphics. All the graphics improvements have done is slow the skilling and fighting rates down to snails pace while removing all the longer players that haven't kept replacing their computers to handle the graphics that Jagex dont even think about on their member paid new computers. I remember when I swung my pick up then down & got 1 ore, now my character swings all around taking probably 6 to 8 times as long to swing and the ore just comes every 5 to 20 strokes of the pick - do you still pay your $5US to take 20 times as long for the same experience, thats $100US to get what you used to 8 years ago for $5US!

Note also these days that Jagex dont attempt to fix any thing as their technicians are too incompetant to repair anything and deleting the Romeo & Juliet quest was a test for removing everything us long time players have stuck to in skilling. When Jagex keep ignoring the longest time players, all they do is distroy their own game more all the time. Word of mouth is the best advertisement and it used to get people into playing but now is the best way to bring them out of their addiction!

What freedom? I liked mining but at lvl90 it takes me longer to mine 1 coal that I could originally at level 30

All the time the game has been on there has been lagg thats stops you playing whenever you want. For this pleasure you actually have to pay for the right!

Do I sense another friend of someone working for those immature kids at Jagex?

Botts are more out there than ever and hackers don't even get banned now - they keep changing names so as to hide from the people they decieve! Jagex have forgotten that they even have an ABUSE button as they dont do anything to stop the selfish destruction of so many immature untrustworthy and worthless kids that so lack in respect!

Shadowruin is clearly a Jagex worker or a mate of them to falsely support them and fail to find a single bad thing when Runescape 2 probably has the most failures of any online game

Note: to self; don't rave on as even MMORPG here logs us out with too much to say!

Now consider from an adults point that a lot of us played it to enjoy dialogue with some decent online friends. Please realise that I made friends with a lady stuck in her home due to a very bad car crash so played to pass the time. Another friend is fully bed-bound after working hard & bringing 3 kids into the world only to have her back fail. Then there's the 3 ladies in their 30s that were such nice personalities and great to talk with along with their kids that made this game so worthwhile - the cancer finally got to all of them so I can't ask for their support here but I hope they truely are RIP. Still a lot of my adult friends play so I just casually go online to do a bit and talk with those that are left. Those of us that have played for 8 years don't like quitting all our hard work and I have often complained at the unfairness of sensible people on just an hour or 2 paying for idiots and mostly botts to play 24/7.

To those ignorant of where the macroes went; they are still playing and now the macro programs operate your mouse and keyboard which means Jagex lack of skill can't detect this at all. Take certain high level accounts that skite on YouTube, these use multiple bott accounts to replenish anything they loose so nothings a worry to them. Botts can do everything and they are tuned up to do it better than what the operators can play themselves thus even PKing is done by botts. Botts can do all skills, all fighting aswell as all quests and now also do all the diaries so 'High Scores' is probably the biggest joke in the game. Have you noted how "Dungeoneering' is mostly botted since those at the highest level on it have to get 670k experience a day from day 1 which is only possible maybe 24/7!!!

Then think what you or your parents have paid for! In NZ it costs at least $11 a month and in my time I have spent $1500+ to play but just 1 lowlife took my account and stole 500mgp of gear so thats like 3/4 of all my work and an estimated $1000 that got stolen but Jagex still allow all hackers to continue to play! Just recently I found out another friend had a friend who just got hacked after 8 years of playing - something about a Mod talking to him that led to the loss but he won't say any more about it. This points to real life these days where kids are so disgusting that they think they can hide online stealing peoples hard work and ignore the fact that there is a caring human behind the accounts they steal. If you know a hacker then immediately avoid that person in real life as they can never be trusted and should always be reported for their dishonesty.

So any more bad games?

Is Crptic still the worst lot?

LOL, why bother when the 100k accounts on are all botters.

This game is only for a few pathetic noobs that don't get much luck against 24/7 botting that improves your luck the longer you play each day. Runescapes game client engine is set for botters and they are mostly members which sell inj real worlds. Once sold these fools have no idea how to actually play and too soon give up the accounts.

This also shows how Guiness Book Of Records  is foolish since most accounts they think is a record had already quit.

There is no better false game anywhere at all!

It looks like STO by Cryptic is getting way out front!

It's hard for me to understand why with all the Runescape people so annoyed and the Guiness Book of Records being fooled - they need to change the title for Runescape as most quit accounts ever. Oh maybe thats the answer there as people quit not just Runescape but that made them quit online gaming too and thus these forums.

Well another recommendation for your thoughts too: If you want to play 'Lord of The Rings' or 'Star Wars' and other games that come from the Movies, make sure you have or get a Gaming Console version that stays the same from start to finish. If you get a PC version of these, they have very little room to develop and of course the movie makers may make another movie that won't even follow the games changes. These games are more likely to fail than totally independant games which have potential for longer life.

All this will depend on if Developers move to make CD,s of the games even for PC's with encrypted code that keeps varying to prevent botting aswell as hacking. If the banks can do it then with all the funds game developers can too!

I just finally found this link aswell to a load of professional dribble lies. Does your game show up on this site aswell and do they lie as much or even worse?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/08/04/the-great-runescape-jagex-and-the-future/

I have also seen a link in the Runescape Discussions here with it before but think they got that link from me somehow.

Originally posted by Warmaker

Worst MMORPG game and developer?  Easy for me.

SOE & Lucasarts, and what they did with SWG.

SOE forced the NGE ("New Game Enhancements") out of the blue in '05, unannounced, to its players.  These changes weren't simply a tweak here, tweak there, and a nerf over here.  These were gameplay changes that totally altered the game to an unrecognizable, overly simplistic version of its former self.  Some said the changes were a poor mockery of what WoW was supposed to be, but I never played WoW.

The player response was overwhelmingly negative and people pleaded to get the old system back, but SOE didn't want to hear any of it.  What they wanted was a piece of WoW's newfound success, i.e. some of their players.  SOE & Lucasarts (both deserve blame) figured that the changes would drive out a bunch of the-then 200k players but would be replaced with the stampede of WoW's players (WoW + Star Wars name!  How can you possibly lose, right?).  Well, the majority of players left, and there was no stampede of eager newbies.

SOE & Lucasarts were perfectly fine on saying "F*** You" to their current, paying subscribers in a bid to get a possibly larger playerbase.  Even when their clumsy and poorly thought out plan didn't pan out, they refused to "Rollback" to the older systems.  They rather let the game languish in hell with a mockery of a population of what used to be than admit to their mistake and go back to the old system.

The poor thing about this stupid NGE was that it obviously took quite a bit of development time, and to top it off, it added even MORE bugs since it was a new system laid ontop of an already existing game that still had lingering bugs from release.  Alot of development time that could have been used to FIX the existing system and add more to the game.  But no, they wasted their time and effort, drove out once the vibrant, very tight knit playerbase, and soiled their reputation.

Instead of having by now a polished, fleshed out Star Wars SANDBOX game with a great, tight knit community, we have a laughable one that tries poorly to mimic another, more successful MMORPG, with a greatly diminished population of what once was.

 Although I haven't got into wasting too much real life on all these games, there's a very similar pattern here to Runescape. Jagex used to be good mature people and the game friends were full of families with both parents and all the kids. Don't get me wrong, there was a womaniser using his wifes playing  to watch so he could chat them up, also a totally drunken woman that didn't know herself yet alone me, and all those outrite abusing kids & immature adults. I used to wish Jagex would have ended RS2 back near the end of Wildy but with the way they changed Runescape Classic to a total noob show I realise they would just do the same there - oh full Dragon armour is sort of that way now anyhow. The longer you play a game the better chance immature kids take over the developement and the game becomes disgusting to all

The there was a 'Tales Of Pirates' I found that seemed much more tranquil and enjoyable for 3 months. Thats when I realised I needed to try the special islands that were the only places to get gems to power your weapons. My partner yelled for help as she nearly poured hot food all over herself & when I returned I was dead to some dumb spoilt kid low level with a maxed weapon. What this taught me was the spoilt American kid used his credit card to buy a good account online and swap the gems to his account. Also he paid what was about $500US for the latest high level weapon for lvl65+ and stripped those gems for his lvl18 account. I can't remember the ignorant company that allows this game to operate free but makes it's wealth selling extras for it including special fairies - How deep are your pockets?

A lot of my RS mates left to play WOW but that seems to be dieing faster than so many others. A poor support team with too much online abuse and continuous hacking regardless of being given gear back is sole destroying so they all eventually quit. Now the poorer people see a chance to try it but last even less time on. I never even thought to waste more time than on one game - lifes too short to waste it.

A game to play should be playable for all people regardless of wealth. Buying items in real life for your account defeats the point of playing.  Is gaming online going to be a thing of the past at this rate?

Oh, BTW how many associted sites do you think there is for your most hated game. This could show if it fails how many other people apart from the developer will be destroyed. Runescape seems to have hundreds of help sites but about 15 big time sites. Imagine all those going under too!