We have recently fixed a GP bug related to the money pouch, and its use within the Duel Arena and the Crucible. Specifically, the bug was only found by players with maximum cash stacks and so is limited to a very small number of accounts.

Sadly, some of these accounts have chosen to abuse this bug several times to generate large amounts of wealth. This is strictly against our rules, and always leads to related accounts being banned, wiped clean and left with no chance of ever being accessed again – no exceptions. People who abuse bugs will simply not be tolerated and are not welcome to play RuneScape, regardless of how long they have played or paid for.

Here is a list of some of the accounts we have banned (in no particular order):

2QO	2475 Total (Maxed Player)	606 Days Played
2College	2054 Total	170 Days Played
TzTok-Roy	2327 Total	335 Days Played
DeadEternity	2496 Total (2 200m xp stats)	462 Days Played
Zeke	1690 Total	121 Days Played
00O0OlI0lIO0	856 Total	54 Days Played
Tncd	1128 Total	87 Days Played
lbw	976 Total	27 Days Played
TvF	2132 Total	279 Days Played
x4v	693 Total	157 Days Played
WASTEDMONKEY	1978 Total	198 Days Played
Rs Completed	2496 Total (Maxed Player)	302 Days Played
d4rk_mayhem	1791 Total	296 Days Played
Serasha	2381 Total	334 Days Played
i am WeeHoo	1889 Total	197 Days Played
FlashZxFOur1	1386 Total	132 Days Played
Shopkeeper	2338 Total	256 Days Played

We are also removing the wealth from any associated accounts (mules and secondary accounts owned by the same player) found gaining wealth from the accounts mentioned above.

As well as the above, there are several other accounts that have accessed the bug but have not abused it. We will be rolling these accounts back to Friday 3rd August, before the bug was being abused and before they gained any wealth from it. We have taken this step to avoid any significant inflation issues and also to keep the game fair to everyone. Since it’s possible that these accounts found the bug by mistake, and were not abusing it, we have decided to offer the benefit of the doubt and not ban them.

Thanks to a new way of analysing data we can be very sure who was, or was not, abusing the bug. We are 100% sure that the actions we have taken are therefore accurate and we will be using this new data system to help us deal with other issues in the very near future.

For those of you concerned about the rare objects being removed from the game after the bans and rollbacks – don’t be. We have several clever and fair ways of making sure that the numbers of these rares (like party hats) remain the same.

Lastly, if you experience or hear of a bug in the game, the right thing to do is submit a bug report so that we can review it and fix ASAP.

Thanks for reading. It’s very sad for all of us when these things happen, but nobody likes a cheat and actions must and will be taken.

Daniel Clough
COO & VP of RuneScape

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