I think the bots would be fishing on pvp worlds because despite seeing bots is a casual sight (at least in free to play I guess), you still see them. The harder they are to find, the longer they stay up. It doesn't hide them from the bot detection system but if players don't see that specific bot farm, they don't talk about it either, let alone report them. And I'm saying this only supposing bots being reported by players is hardly the most effective method to exterminate them.
I honestly gave a bit up on osrs..... everywhere i go in the game i am reminded of “oh look at all these bots” no one interacts anymore. Skilling spots are basically ran by bots. Rip runescape the way i once knew it.
I honestly gave a bit up on osrs..... everywhere i go in the game i am reminded of “oh look at all these bots” no one interacts anymore. Skilling spots are basically ran by bots. Rip runescape the way i once knew it.
I have got to give you credit for having entertainment around the advertisement bit of the video. Instead of straight up having a 1.5 minute video of Aids Shaddow Legends, you make the best out of it. Had to point it out, keep it up
Virtoso is sponsored by raids as well and they work in silly skits/puns into it as well. It is basically a meme at this point. I always appreciate creativity that goes into advertising their sponsors haha
Can we just get a petition going to Jagex already... give sir pugger the power the j mods had on the bot busting they did a while ago.. Pugs putting in the work bringing it to light and nothing gets done 🤷♂️
My account was hacked and totally emptied out. I remember logging back in and standing in Castle Wars totally confused so yeah... that's exactly what that Castle Wars bot is.
Come back for PK lol it's the only reason to keep playing OSRS. Even tho RS3 is bad in terms of combat it has more rewards and content for exploration.
"If there's 10 gp involved they'll do it!" When they have 100+ accounts doing a task that most wouldn't think would be worth botting that's a lot less likely to be picked up on and reported so it can run longer. It's all passive anyway so for bot farm runners it really doesn't matter.
You can easily see how many people online at any time are real vs bots. When the game Updates, the bot users have to update their client before they can run the script again. Basically all bots crash after an update for anywhere from 30 minutes to a few hours. Look at the player base drop from 500 people on every world to about 80 or 100 after it updates. About 20% of people online at any time are real players
The clan wars one is definitely hacked accounts. 3 years ago I fell for the classic double xp twich phishing link and got ddosd and then cleaned. When I logged back in I was at castle war
yesterday, 6am i wandered in varrock and i saw 200+ bald lvl 3 bots with random names filling up vials and banking them, location : varrock east bank, world 500. It was ridicioulus ive never seen nothing like that before.
god bro, i remember talking to that yoda guy asking for full rune. he showed me 120 mil two weeks ago. it’s insane how much money he makes... he also does a name change every few hours, but it always seems to revolve around the name yoda for some reason
i think 1 of my f2p pures was a victim of the castle wars bot. i literally never went to castle wars on that account and i didnt use the account at all for months and when i logged in i wondered why i was at castle wars, i had no gp on the account but i thought maybe i put it all back on my main as i never used the account. Now it makes sense lol.
Nice videos man. I’ve been skulltricking for months between the lava maze teleport and revenant cave. During this period I’ve seen loads of different rev bots. Different pathings/reactions when getting attacked. At the moment there’s a big farm with 60-80s all named like RedPoster/SillySnail/KiloSnake (They all have two random words starting with capitals). Another active farm are mostly 80s. They all got ancient d hide boots. I been doing this for a long time, I made two in depth skulltrick videos about that spot on my channel.
thing about the mort myre money making guide, it accounts for having the hard diary done for 2x fungus, so unless the bot has done that, they get half rate.
I can confirm the bots on the F2P castle wars are stolen accounts. Mine got hacked and when I got Jagex to pause my account, I logged back in at f2p castlewars. I was too late and lost all of my money. Still in deep debt.
There is now a small growing operation of Mort Myre Fungus farming bots starting to pop up. There is an area where 4-5 logs can be hit at once with the blessing from blessed silver sickle. Accounts are varying in level with most of them being low combat ~20-30 defense and the requirements are the quest line up thru Nature’s Spirit completed. These accounts are using house teleports to exit and enter a host house and Kharyll Teleport from host’s nexus portal to bank at Canifis followed by running south to the spot where the fungus collecting occours. Each trip is about 2min long including collection time and with the current going prices of the fungus these accounts are making upwards of 650k/hr with minimal requirements needed.
In one of your old vids you said bots were tping to Corp and entering a private instance. They are being used to kill corp with retribution. If someone agros Corp and exists the room it holds his agro. Then the bots run under him getting stomped on. This then damages him, with no damage reduction, meaning is someone had 25 bots with 60 prayer each they could damage him by 15 per account. This theoretically means if a bot with 10 hp it would die in one hit. If they tp twice every min thats 30 damage each. Times that by 25 its 750 damage per minute. A 2.5 min kill on Corp. If you used more accounts (100 maybe) with higher prayer you could nuke Corp down making kills every minute. With each kill being worth around 478K on average its a 27Mil profit per hour. Thats 648Mil per day. Members for 100 bots is 500Mil. The farm pays for itself in under 20 hours. Jagex needs to address this now. Hope thats helps.
There is also another bot farm in the revenant caves, where the dragons are (once entered by the south entrance, go east). They all are 80-90s with d hide and snakeskin bandana with generic random letter names. They all have cannons with not more than 100-200 cannonballs. They will automatically tele when you are at like 15 square from them, even if you barely see them.
you know what, jagex could have stopped this bots easily just by having a mod do what you do. The thing is, bots still pay membership so they dont really care, they pretend to.
The only reason why jagex had to remove wildy and free trade was because of credit card companies suing jagex because so many scammers were stealing credit card info and using them to pay for membership 🤣
I've noticed some unusual activity on f2p worlds around the falador dwarf mine. A lot of 'bots' going from Edgevile to the mine and then wondering around the shop and anvil area, some of them pick up the 1gp on the floor.
Do not know how known they are but recently saw a stack of 10 or so suspicious accounts in Motherlode in the prospector gear and rune pick with very similar stats wait at the entrance, probably routine set up. Then filling almost every upper mine spot. All with 90s mining and handfull of other stats at random 1-5 difference. To get that in motherlode mine i cannot imagine how long they have been going for.
@SirPugger You're on to something about the free to play castle wars bot farm. My GF got hacked this past week and when she logged in she was in castle wars and all of her items and cash had been stolen. For a week or two prior to her being hacked she would log in to her account being in castle wars when she for a fact logged out with me at the GE on multiple occasions. I thought it was some sort of bug so I looked into it on Reddit and found that other people had experienced the same exact thing. I hope you are able to bring attention to this and Jagex does something about this, losing your bank to hackers and bots is a real quick way to lose player base. PSA to accounts that may experience being re-logged somewhere they know they were not the last time they played, get the two-step authentication that Jagex offers and make sure you have a bank PIN. My GF did not and if it wasnt for me having money to spare for her she would have quit. FIX YOUR GAME JAGEX!!!
A RUclipsr (I forget his name): recently made a video on using retribution to kill Corp, reminded me of that suspicious bot farm going into Corp with high prayer?
I can confirm that the castle wars one is hacked accounts, one of my low level alts I haven't played on in years logged in while I was playing, immediately logged back out, I went on to check it, I was in castle wars and cleaned, fortunately there was only like 50-200k on the account
@@justintaylor6665 if you go on twitch osrs you will see tons of streams with a double xp login, when you click takes you to normal looking login page until it asks for your bank pin, but some people still type that.
@@danh9093 idk I never had auth and had a separate email to login to my account and lost 500mil. Haven't played since. Didn't even lose password. IMO jagex had a security breach.
@Old Toby don't have the time for a game which requires so much commitment to progress. I feel like rs would be a game you need to play for years to get anywhere decent
I miss this game so much, I miss this game when botting was so underground you had to be atleast 18 to understand how to do it. I miss this game having a thriving economy to actually justify pursuing your character progression the way you want to whether that be PvM, or PvP, or flat out skilling. I miss this game and all it's glory, it was a good one runescape.
its crazy how much bots have gotten out of hand, the sad part is its never going to really stop until people stop buying gold. people wouldn't invest time into botting if there wasn't a demand.
there's a gold farmer that ive been tracking at sacred eels for months he was like 50m fish at christmas time and now hes 100m fish and 110m cooking ..... name is skywath fish
What sucks is that Jagex banned 3 of my accounts for "macroing" when I never did such a thing. .-. It sucks 'cause all I enjoy doing is fishing and mining. And I get banned for doing that. But these actual bots get to run around freely with nothing happening to them.
That happened to an account i had. i recently disputed the claim and they gave me it back only to find out it had been botting and collected over 8000 blue dragon hides and dragon bones. Jagex claims that they "know for sure" or else they wouldn't ban, but i am calling BS on that.
About a year or so ago there used to be cadava and red berry collecting bots south of Varrock in F2P. They’d log in about 2 seconds before the berry respawns, grabs it, World hops
I had completely forgot about this but if you world hop on RS3 and kill a bot, there’s a random chance they will drop exactly 75k gp on the dot. And what doesn’t make any sense these bots don’t carry anything on them aside from cursed energy. And these bots are smart they use single messages and pretend to be a person, then run to a designated tp area and wait there and don’t move. It happens a lot especially on w84.
500k/hour x 100 bots = 50m per hour. 50m x 8=400m in 8 hours.. thats just making 500k an hour... sell that for real money these bot farms can make 500+ us dollars per day without doing anything other than setting up the bots.
@@Fx_deleted 100 bots = 5 mil per bot (bonds) 100 bots also crashes the price of the fungi, you need to buy the accounts themselves, and if it's that heavily botted you'll get mabye an hour before it gets banned.
idk if it's been mentioned before, but while doing Mournings End P1, I noticed bots logging in and out at the West Ardy general store. Didn't see them buy or sell anything.. just log in, trade the general store owner, then log out.
I was a victim of 3:30 I disabled my authenticator for literally 15 minutes and they took me for 20ish mil. Who knows how long they had my info? What are you so afraid of pugger?
My cousin, brother and I were pking and died, we were at lumby bank at the very top, and outside the bank there were about 6 people trading this one person (all lvl 3)and they were all running to the cannonballs sitting there, it was like they were using something on the cannonballs and going back. I was able to get into a trade with the one guy but we just sat there for 4 minutes, we were able to trade and run and bring him away from his spot. Have a look into it if you want but I feel like it can’t be anything big
I have a garg alt, some of the dudes I run into are bots. The legit alts typically don't camp guthans, it is just not efficient even if you afk hard as fuck.
before I got access to way better ways to make money I use to solely make gp off of mort myre fungi and banking in Zanaris, it was about 500k gp an hour for me with 52 prayer and 60 agility w/ full graceful. By the end of my time doing fungi Id started noticing bots doing it too and saw the price of fungi drop from about 850gp each to 725gp each. Thankfully now I have decent ranged and 70 agility so my primary money maker is blue dragons in Taverley dungeon. Could never go abck to fungi. The reason the guide says almost 1 mil an hour is because it assumes high prayer, morytania legs 3, and access to rejuvenation pool in POH so you arent having to buy prayer pots like I did.
3:18 there is an account cracker that I found on the web that does exactly this. What it does is checks a combo list of millions of accounts the user feeds in to the program, then after it completes the list, it will log in to every account individually and view their bank. Once it sees what is in it, it logs out until all accounts are checked. Then it has the main log in and logs in to every account individually again and trades everything over.
Roleplay Rogue it mainly takes database leaks from all over the internet and tries those combos. It could be from a website you made an account on over 10 years ago. If you still use the same email and password, boom. You’re hacked.
@@GingieMC that's why it's good to switch up your password. I can't remember what the site was called but there was one that let you know if your password was ever discovered in any leaks.
Not sure if it's just bc I was on at 10AM EST, but I've noticed a huge decrease in the amount of bots in f2p worlds. The mining spots in varrock didnt have a single bot. They also disabled the water sources in lumby PK
The castle wars bot is indeed hacked accounts. Around 3 months ago my f2p account got hacked and when I logged in it was at castle wars. The lucky part was that my bank PIN had stopped them from actually getting anything (though it was on the 3 day deletion timer) so it seems they teleport there and then try to withdraw the items/money.
You can only make 1m gp doing fungi with the Morty hard diaries done, and a house with a pool to restore prayer quickly, and fairy ring access. These bots are probably only pulling in 600k an hour.
Bit farm at Kurasks and Turoths. All I’ve seen have had 97+ in all melee stats. And they come every few mins in pairs of 2. Occasionally solo. But they all where barrows armour and a battle staff with obby cape
On zeah, theres a bot farm of 48-51 combat levels pick pocketing the master farmer near the fruit stalls. All have rouges and a games necklace and 80-83 thieving currently
there is a lot of bot in member at the edgeville furnace you see all these bot trying to mimic as if a player missclicked behind the furnace and between the furnace and the bank but they all go to the same spot everytime . they also all have random stats and not a bot name just to look less suspicious but mostly all below lvl 36 and they all have a high level smithing
Fun fact about the Zulrah Scale fishing location. I AFK two accounts there whenever I’m playing PS4 or another account and had around 1m in scales. The scales dropped to like 130gp each. Then they jumped to 256ea and I sold them. I get called a bot all the time when I’m there 😂
Been finding myself addicted to these vids. The early 2000s nostalgia is real. But seeing the shit that happens in the game now makes me think if I even load the website I might have a scammer trying to break my kneecaps over discord
The castle wars sketchy situation is definitely people trading over hacked gold & items. My main was hacked recently and when I logged in I was at castle wars with my HP slightly down... that bit really confused me but my bank was cleaned.
I'm doing a series soon where I get out of f2p with bonds on an ironman account. F2p worlds are absolutely flooded with bots and it's honestly astounding how blatant and simple they are. It honestly feels like Jagex doesnt want to ban them because they'll just make new free accounts and do it more. I understand, but it's still horrifying to know that on any server with 400 players, 200+ of them are probably bots.
bots hop on the second floor of the Dagganoth Lighthouse, selling random items in quantities of 5 to 15, and about 10 different items each time. I accidentally came across this when checking the NPC that acts as a general store. I have come back to this location from time to time over the years and this bot farm is still highly active, I'm assuming its the same guy seeing as its the same items at the same quantities being sold, I can quite imagine how undetectable this is, especially when that one bot is making anywhere between 20 to 45k per world hop. I'm sure you can imagine how much money that is when running 10 bots on, 10 bots off for years on end
10+ free to play bots per world camping the gold spawns in dwarven mine is the most obscure. They are programmed to run anywhere in the cavee, and bank with full inventory, but if no one drops them ore, they could be sitting on mounds of cash. You can also make a train of iron ore and some bots will suicide to scorpions because they dont know how to return back to the gold spawns if lured too far. Might make some intresting content
I've actuakly had my f2p account mysteriously appear in CW and didnt know what was happening and thought nothing of it, but i didnt play for a week or two, and i came back to see my cash stack gone, just my cash stack, nothing else, it was really strange.
Can you hit up Zalcano? Almost Everybody that says “full” usually logs out or leaves when I ask them “what’s the problem you trying to gold farm for rwt?” It’s actually very annoying since regular drops really and truthfully have minimal difference on larger or smaller groups on average it’s like a 10k difference. The only time in my opinion smaller groups are worth it is if your unique hunting and I ask them that and they never respond except a few which mainly are ironmen. I know the statistics behind the groups of Zalcano for the party size but I’ve been doing Zalcano for a while now for a video I want to post and me personally will be calling out things that can be fixed about the boss in the video but the people there at Zalcano definitely need to be checked and I have no way of proving if anyone is really good farming or not but it’s really suspicious when you try to ask them if they are and they hop or log out and by the way they are usually less than 100 combat.
Hosidious General Store, I was there on my Zeah Only account, and bots hop world to world selling (5) of various items, I've tried to talk to them with no response, I hopped to different worlds and its all the same items in every world. Not sure if thats considered a bot farm or not, but figured I'd let you know! Great work - I Tigg3r I
Been noticing tonnes of bots at MLM recently. All mostly level 44, but seen around 43-53 range. All seem to have done the waterfall quest and a few others for some easy levels to deter the bot detection. All have at least 100+ mining. Loads with pets. All with the prospector outfit. Some names: duix, edrtghd54, aezro, mastersd27, top 500 d va, ali kharid, ybnlxrd, the don man2. I usually frequent w520 but I hop around a lot so not just that world.
RuneScape doesn’t care if they did care they would of gotten all the bots removed they care about $ why so many j mods left cuz they knew the game isn’t what it use to be and it u remove all the bots imagine the player numbers it would drop so much ^.^
and the economy would crash items would inflate and skillers would be pissed cause it would be so much more expensive to GE stand and do skills . It would be too easy for merchers to inflate items if bots didnt bring new items into the game from pvming monsters most people dont bother with
@@kingcz-ru6ce which is another reason i will never understand people who don't like the GE and want the old trading system. Like why make a slow game literally go to a stand still ....... Sounds like aids in game form to me.
@@kingcz-ru6ce You're forgetting that resource gathering would become a viable money making method again due to the bots being gone. Players who just want to have some afk fun will be able to make bank with raw resource gathering. The economy would change very little, its just that actual players would get money instead of botters.
@@kingcz-ru6ce In my opinion the old days before GE were amazing, spending hours talking and networking and making new friends, creating groups, joining merchant chats to find what you wanted. While yeah it was annoying if you're trying to level fast; It made the community feel whole. Imo.
There is a bot farm at the Piscarilius fish shop where you can buy sharks at max 256 at 100% favor, and sell on the GE for 1200. the shop holds 25 raw sharks at full stock but is never holding stock. only seen the bots a few times just gave up on my ironman to buy them anymore
destroyed? its always been the same, right from the beginning. theres several reasons why bots are not nuked. the obvious one is IRL $$$ and the osrs economy would suffer, as nobody wants to spend all the time to farm those same supplies to sell. the efficiency mindset of the community now has destroyed the game way more than bots though
@@ShinyJacko so... you would have to play the game and gather the supplies yourself or pay what they are actually worth? why do you think they released iron man? the game is shit these days lol. can buy a max cape for $100.
Yeah I’m not certain on which are bots / which aren’t, but I’ve heard about and found gargoyle bot scripts that specifically call for guthans, and there are lots of accounts like yours- wish I could be certain about specific accounts tho!
Pug, there's a bot farm buying stuff from port sarim stores (varies when prices go up or down), but sometimes they're so full they resort to pvp worlds in f2p
Jagex needs to hire a couple people full time to just track down bots.. It's really not that difficult to spot bots. With mod powers it would be unbelievably easy.
@@Culturedtuna1 I think you meant to say Spanish?(Venezuela's language) Fortunately translator apps are widely available for every common language. I don't know every tool mods have at their disposal but I'm sure they have ways to track the players play time, the time they generally play, what they're doing with their money/time and trade history. There's so many ways you could determine if an account is a bot or a legitimate one. Plus even if an account is legitimate they may still be breaking game rules such as staking for real world trading etc.
I can speak for your castle wars theory. I hadn't played my account in years. I logged in at castle wars, with 1 untradeable members item and emptied. In other RS groups I'm in apparently I'm not the only one
Ads are based off of what you're interested in. He can't control it, Google listens to you, no joke. Talk about dog or cat food and then Google some stuff, promise you'll see a related ad to it.
How do you know all these pro bot programmers, anyway? I'm not sure what your goal here is other than RUclips views, because you talk extensively about these bot farms but you refuse to talk about who runs them, almost as if you actually don't want them to get caught. And why does that matter? Why does their privacy deserve to be respected, considering what they are doing? You use undercover aliases when contacting these people anyway, right?
You have no experience talking to people that would spend their entire day researching the people that come after them, and then try to do something extremely malicious to them with the information they found. Read back about what people did to other gilded altar hosts just for "stealing their players". Most of the time I'd imagine Pugger joins discords that have active botmakers and gets in touch with them, and the only reason he gets to speak with them is because they know they'll remain anonymous. It's not like anything will happen to the person Pugger exposes, it's literally a discord username. That's nothing to go off of, because Discord's pretty secure. It isn't like these botmakers are getting in touch and giving Pugger their name, email, and phone number for future contact. Also, with bot farms being exposed, players go and interrupt the farms and bot makers either have to shut down or move to something else. I figure that's the reason botmakers like the cowhide bot farm is settling for less, because they're less likely to be targeted. And yeah, views are apart of RUclips. Congratulations, great analysis. Here's a medal.
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I own a botfarm that logs off when they read the name sir pugger.
I run a bot farm that reports its own bots for botting :D
I own a bot farm that tracks and kills scout bots.
My Dad is Jagex
@@alshaklawi My jagex is dad.
@@99germanmyass jagex is my janitor
"Bots have been camping the toilet paper aisle in my store" LMAOOOOOO
Haha
Haha wait you guys wipe your ass?
I thought those were called Karens?
@@rcc475 we were supposed to?😶😶
@@lucid2624oh shit
1:14 the Jagex gag cracked me up 😂😂
Seriously though 😂
The truth can be funny 🤣
hang on i'll transfer your call LOL
Jagex picks up and immediately hangs up LOL
I giggled at this as well
I recently longed into my account, I was at F2P castle wars. All my money was gone. Those bastards!
i had the same, somehow got rid of my bank pin
What the hell, adn I was thinking to myself why is my account always respawning at F2P castle wars???
Thats what happened to me....removed my bank pin and I believe my email connected to account...kinda annoying.
Happen to mine to
Same
I think the bots would be fishing on pvp worlds because despite seeing bots is a casual sight (at least in free to play I guess), you still see them. The harder they are to find, the longer they stay up. It doesn't hide them from the bot detection system but if players don't see that specific bot farm, they don't talk about it either, let alone report them. And I'm saying this only supposing bots being reported by players is hardly the most effective method to exterminate them.
I honestly gave a bit up on osrs..... everywhere i go in the game i am reminded of “oh look at all these bots” no one interacts anymore. Skilling spots are basically ran by bots. Rip runescape the way i once knew it.
I honestly gave a bit up on osrs..... everywhere i go in the game i am reminded of “oh look at all these bots” no one interacts anymore. Skilling spots are basically ran by bots. Rip runescape the way i once knew it.
Yea, who actually goes to skilling locations on pvp worlds?
I have got to give you credit for having entertainment around the advertisement bit of the video. Instead of straight up having a 1.5 minute video of Aids Shaddow Legends, you make the best out of it. Had to point it out, keep it up
roman0811 fr kinda impressed
Virtoso is sponsored by raids as well and they work in silly skits/puns into it as well. It is basically a meme at this point. I always appreciate creativity that goes into advertising their sponsors haha
he already learned his lesson from a few months ago when he made a vid 35% advertisement
Can we just get a petition going to Jagex already... give sir pugger the power the j mods had on the bot busting they did a while ago.. Pugs putting in the work bringing it to light and nothing gets done 🤷♂️
If we did he’d just start banning the gargoyle alts
You can't be fucking serious, especially after obviously faking a bunch of videos too.
@ millions of dollars? Are you fucking dumb?
Jagex doesn’t mind the bots. They fill in for parts of the economy that players don’t want to deal with. They also make jagex money.
@@Kerttis
Why are you so mad? Is it because you can't understand basic economics?
My account was hacked and totally emptied out. I remember logging back in and standing in Castle Wars totally confused so yeah... that's exactly what that Castle Wars bot is.
Why can't jagex just hire sir pugger and make him bot specialist JMOD
That's a good idea actually. Jagex should hire this guy. As long as he gets to keep his channel
@Andrew Evans if bots are extremely obvious to us Andrew, than shouldn't Jagex be on top of them?
@Andrew Evans it's all coming together now.
Why hire him when he does it for them for free? Capitalism: ain't it great?
@@danielmeman1529 lol pugger probably earns close to a million a year. And his expertise is useless for the team
Imagine making a bot just to ruin the most populair f2p money making method
Imagine also not just getting a damn job instead of screwing up a game for half a year's rent.
@@Kshea44ify Some of these people are making over a million dollars. How long would that take you to earn at your damn job?
@@Reelix millions? 10b is 5k my guy chill
@@jacobknowsgeorgebushdid9119 10b is nothing - Try 10t
@@Reelix soooo who's made 10t? Didn't think so fam. Also My little Pony? God what a cringe beta
I literally don’t even play anymore I just find these videos so interesting bro 👍🏻👍🏻💯
You'll be back. They all come back.
Come back for PK lol it's the only reason to keep playing OSRS. Even tho RS3 is bad in terms of combat it has more rewards and content for exploration.
I have never played this game but I like these videos
"If there's 10 gp involved they'll do it!"
Kinda like my ex
buying his gf
pass her my way fam
fucking Cameron lol!
dude i have not played RS in years, but I live for these videos they are so fascinating.
Same, nostalgic
Pugger is the MVP for quarantine content
Keep in moderation not everything he says has to true. He's been caught faking in the past.
@@danfromtheburgh thanks for this one dawg
"If there's 10 gp involved they'll do it!" When they have 100+ accounts doing a task that most wouldn't think would be worth botting that's a lot less likely to be picked up on and reported so it can run longer. It's all passive anyway so for bot farm runners it really doesn't matter.
You can easily see how many people online at any time are real vs bots. When the game Updates, the bot users have to update their client before they can run the script again. Basically all bots crash after an update for anywhere from 30 minutes to a few hours. Look at the player base drop from 500 people on every world to about 80 or 100 after it updates. About 20% of people online at any time are real players
Same goes with runelite though so not 100% accurate
And yet you continue to play the game why?
Honestly can't really enjoy this game anymore, but god damn do I enjoy your content.
Yeah same. I'm still off and on with RS (currently off), but this channel is so interesting and fun to watch.
RS3 less bots with more skills (=
@@Fx_deleted eeewww...
I only ever made it to level 3 mining about 10 years ago, yet here I am.
The clan wars one is definitely hacked accounts. 3 years ago I fell for the classic double xp twich phishing link and got ddosd and then cleaned. When I logged back in I was at castle war
Same thing even 6 months ago
lmao, imagine really thinking double xp works on osrs...
I agree. I was hacked a few days ago and ended up at castle wars
roll limbo yeah same lol I felt like an idiot but I did it in 2015 😂
"Hang on, I'll transfer your call."
*Click*
XD
yesterday, 6am i wandered in varrock and i saw 200+ bald lvl 3 bots with random names filling up vials and banking them, location : varrock east bank, world 500. It was ridicioulus ive never seen nothing like that before.
SirPugger missed his own bot farm. We all know he exposes other people’s farms to eliminate competition.
Got any proof or you just talking out your ass
@@openyathirdeye6894 It was an obvious joke moron
These vids are always soo interesting!
Not expecting to see you here
god bro, i remember talking to that yoda guy asking for full rune. he showed me 120 mil two weeks ago. it’s insane how much money he makes... he also does a name change every few hours, but it always seems to revolve around the name yoda for some reason
He goes by joda too like "baby joda"
ive seen Baby Joda in the GE every day begging for a rune set. People still keep giving him stuff
Mmmm rich he wil be!
i think 1 of my f2p pures was a victim of the castle wars bot. i literally never went to castle wars on that account and i didnt use the account at all for months and when i logged in i wondered why i was at castle wars, i had no gp on the account but i thought maybe i put it all back on my main as i never used the account. Now it makes sense lol.
Nice videos man. I’ve been skulltricking for months between the lava maze teleport and revenant cave. During this period I’ve seen loads of different rev bots. Different pathings/reactions when getting attacked. At the moment there’s a big farm with 60-80s all named like RedPoster/SillySnail/KiloSnake (They all have two random words starting with capitals). Another active farm are mostly 80s. They all got ancient d hide boots. I been doing this for a long time, I made two in depth skulltrick videos about that spot on my channel.
thing about the mort myre money making guide, it accounts for having the hard diary done for 2x fungus, so unless the bot has done that, they get half rate.
There's a bot farm in the Hosidius area in Zeah. Just east of the city square pick pocketing a master farmer. All with pretty much the same stats.
I’ve played runescape
for about 30 minutes but still love these vids
Runescape friend
Michael Patridge oops autocorrect
I can confirm the bots on the F2P castle wars are stolen accounts. Mine got hacked and when I got Jagex to pause my account, I logged back in at f2p castlewars. I was too late and lost all of my money. Still in deep debt.
Spat my coffee out on the Jagex bit putting the phone down hahaha, good work man
PerkyAF pwahahahhahaha! Spat mY COfFe OuT HeuheuEhuehUehe!! Hahahah good work man
@@elonmusk2387 you're tapped bro
PerkyAF ya mom
There is now a small growing operation of Mort Myre Fungus farming bots starting to pop up. There is an area where 4-5 logs can be hit at once with the blessing from blessed silver sickle. Accounts are varying in level with most of them being low combat ~20-30 defense and the requirements are the quest line up thru Nature’s Spirit completed. These accounts are using house teleports to exit and enter a host house and Kharyll Teleport from host’s nexus portal to bank at Canifis followed by running south to the spot where the fungus collecting occours. Each trip is about 2min long including collection time and with the current going prices of the fungus these accounts are making upwards of 650k/hr with minimal requirements needed.
Has there been any more news about those Chambers of Xeric bots that they were making? I think you made a video on it
In one of your old vids you said bots were tping to Corp and entering a private instance. They are being used to kill corp with retribution. If someone agros Corp and exists the room it holds his agro. Then the bots run under him getting stomped on. This then damages him, with no damage reduction, meaning is someone had 25 bots with 60 prayer each they could damage him by 15 per account. This theoretically means if a bot with 10 hp it would die in one hit. If they tp twice every min thats 30 damage each. Times that by 25 its 750 damage per minute. A 2.5 min kill on Corp. If you used more accounts (100 maybe) with higher prayer you could nuke Corp down making kills every minute. With each kill being worth around 478K on average its a 27Mil profit per hour. Thats 648Mil per day. Members for 100 bots is 500Mil. The farm pays for itself in under 20 hours. Jagex needs to address this now. Hope thats helps.
I've noticed a few different bots wearing full guthans killing fire giants with a cannon in the waterfall area .
Taylor Johnathan it’s always been a good range training method bro. Not really a bot farm kinda place
@@THExBIGxBADxWOLF93 I have a few pics on my desktop, always have random names and similar stats around. I think they're bots
There is also another bot farm in the revenant caves, where the dragons are (once entered by the south entrance, go east). They all are 80-90s with d hide and snakeskin bandana with generic random letter names. They all have cannons with not more than 100-200 cannonballs. They will automatically tele when you are at like 15 square from them, even if you barely see them.
you know what, jagex could have stopped this bots easily just by having a mod do what you do. The thing is, bots still pay membership so they dont really care, they pretend to.
The only reason why jagex had to remove wildy and free trade was because of credit card companies suing jagex because so many scammers were stealing credit card info and using them to pay for membership 🤣
@@sottosotto4056 "Oh wow the chat filter automatically filters out my credit card number - look! xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"
I've noticed some unusual activity on f2p worlds around the falador dwarf mine. A lot of 'bots' going from Edgevile to the mine and then wondering around the shop and anvil area, some of them pick up the 1gp on the floor.
My f2p account was recently hacked. When i logged in i was at CW with everything gone.
Do not know how known they are but recently saw a stack of 10 or so suspicious accounts in Motherlode in the prospector gear and rune pick with very similar stats wait at the entrance, probably routine set up. Then filling almost every upper mine spot. All with 90s mining and handfull of other stats at random 1-5 difference. To get that in motherlode mine i cannot imagine how long they have been going for.
8:56 holy shit now that is nostalgic.
@SirPugger You're on to something about the free to play castle wars bot farm. My GF got hacked this past week and when she logged in she was in castle wars and all of her items and cash had been stolen. For a week or two prior to her being hacked she would log in to her account being in castle wars when she for a fact logged out with me at the GE on multiple occasions.
I thought it was some sort of bug so I looked into it on Reddit and found that other people had experienced the same exact thing. I hope you are able to bring attention to this and Jagex does something about this, losing your bank to hackers and bots is a real quick way to lose player base.
PSA to accounts that may experience being re-logged somewhere they know they were not the last time they played, get the two-step authentication that Jagex offers and make sure you have a bank PIN. My GF did not and if it wasnt for me having money to spare for her she would have quit. FIX YOUR GAME JAGEX!!!
A RUclipsr (I forget his name):
recently made a video on using retribution to kill Corp, reminded me of that suspicious bot farm going into Corp with high prayer?
Ml gudi a former jmod
Not sure if you've covered it before but I've seen what looks like bots at the mining spot just outside Lletya. Love the vids!
I can confirm that the castle wars one is hacked accounts, one of my low level alts I haven't played on in years logged in while I was playing, immediately logged back out, I went on to check it, I was in castle wars and cleaned, fortunately there was only like 50-200k on the account
Kakreth TMD how are they getting all these passwords?
@@justintaylor6665 their phishing lvl is 99
Just got hacked, 10m ish, everything cleaned, but a duelingring. So yeah, prob.
@@justintaylor6665 if you go on twitch osrs you will see tons of streams with a double xp login, when you click takes you to normal looking login page until it asks for your bank pin, but some people still type that.
@@danh9093 idk I never had auth and had a separate email to login to my account and lost 500mil.
Haven't played since. Didn't even lose password.
IMO jagex had a security breach.
Ive never played this game but find this stuff fascinating none the less
@Old Toby don't have the time for a game which requires so much commitment to progress. I feel like rs would be a game you need to play for years to get anywhere decent
I miss this game so much, I miss this game when botting was so underground you had to be atleast 18 to understand how to do it. I miss this game having a thriving economy to actually justify pursuing your character progression the way you want to whether that be PvM, or PvP, or flat out skilling.
I miss this game and all it's glory, it was a good one runescape.
Hailey Wilce facts :(
buying rs gf?
You single?
its crazy how much bots have gotten out of hand, the sad part is its never going to really stop until people stop buying gold. people wouldn't invest time into botting if there wasn't a demand.
there's a gold farmer that ive been tracking at sacred eels for months he was like 50m fish at christmas time and now hes 100m fish and 110m cooking ..... name is skywath fish
Check out the smithing bots in w308. There’s farms of people making r2hs and dumping them on alt accounts. There’s even maxed accounts here.
That's a clan friend. They sell alchables lmao.
W308 Anvil
What sucks is that Jagex banned 3 of my accounts for "macroing" when I never did such a thing. .-.
It sucks 'cause all I enjoy doing is fishing and mining. And I get banned for doing that.
But these actual bots get to run around freely with nothing happening to them.
Same thing happened to me this year, and their support system is dog shit.
That happened to an account i had. i recently disputed the claim and they gave me it back only to find out it had been botting and collected over 8000 blue dragon hides and dragon bones. Jagex claims that they "know for sure" or else they wouldn't ban, but i am calling BS on that.
@@arick6601 still not a single word from them re my account
damn thats rough. it sucks that people that actually play the game and put the time in leveling are the ones being punished.
About a year or so ago there used to be cadava and red berry collecting bots south of Varrock in F2P. They’d log in about 2 seconds before the berry respawns, grabs it, World hops
I remember stealing those salmon to by a mith scim when I was new 😂
I Still take the raw salmon to level up cooking, or cooked ones when too lazy to fish for food.
@@rdizzy1 I didn't even think about that
I had completely forgot about this but if you world hop on RS3 and kill a bot, there’s a random chance they will drop exactly 75k gp on the dot. And what doesn’t make any sense these bots don’t carry anything on them aside from cursed energy. And these bots are smart they use single messages and pretend to be a person, then run to a designated tp area and wait there and don’t move. It happens a lot especially on w84.
whats up fellas ive been on that wc grind how bout you guys
Vorkath
Idk man I’m still going to work so I can’t stay home and play xD but I’m 1M off 99 attack
Those house portal bots are making teleport tablets
You only make 1m/hour at mort myre fungus if you have the diaries those bots are more likely making half of that
@Egg T Wrong
500k/hour x 100 bots = 50m per hour. 50m x 8=400m in 8 hours.. thats just making 500k an hour... sell that for real money these bot farms can make 500+ us dollars per day without doing anything other than setting up the bots.
@@trent2113 ....right? Half of 1m is 500k. Wyverns are 400k. I know your name contains farquad, but it was his height that was small, not his brain.
@@tygonmaster Mate I botted this on 40 accounts before pugger dropped a vid
I wonder who would know though?
@@Fx_deleted 100 bots = 5 mil per bot (bonds) 100 bots also crashes the price of the fungi, you need to buy the accounts themselves, and if it's that heavily botted you'll get mabye an hour before it gets banned.
idk if it's been mentioned before, but while doing Mournings End P1, I noticed bots logging in and out at the West Ardy general store. Didn't see them buy or sell anything.. just log in, trade the general store owner, then log out.
I was a victim of 3:30
I disabled my authenticator for literally 15 minutes and they took me for 20ish mil.
Who knows how long they had my info?
What are you so afraid of pugger?
I did same thing bc was changing my phone. 10min without autenticator and i lost 150mil...
Don't do stupid things then like visit random sites or click random links and regularly change your pass. Common sense.
@@8BitGamer4life It's all my fault for lacking common sense! Good one, nice contribution!
@@Napusmauno That's exactly why I had to disable too. Sorry to hear that man.
My cousin, brother and I were pking and died, we were at lumby bank at the very top, and outside the bank there were about 6 people trading this one person (all lvl 3)and they were all running to the cannonballs sitting there, it was like they were using something on the cannonballs and going back. I was able to get into a trade with the one guy but we just sat there for 4 minutes, we were able to trade and run and bring him away from his spot. Have a look into it if you want but I feel like it can’t be anything big
Those "suspicious accounts" are called gargoyle alts.
Exactly
I have a garg alt, some of the dudes I run into are bots. The legit alts typically don't camp guthans, it is just not efficient even if you afk hard as fuck.
@@OmeletUSAF I camp guthans 90% of the time
before I got access to way better ways to make money I use to solely make gp off of mort myre fungi and banking in Zanaris, it was about 500k gp an hour for me with 52 prayer and 60 agility w/ full graceful. By the end of my time doing fungi Id started noticing bots doing it too and saw the price of fungi drop from about 850gp each to 725gp each. Thankfully now I have decent ranged and 70 agility so my primary money maker is blue dragons in Taverley dungeon. Could never go abck to fungi. The reason the guide says almost 1 mil an hour is because it assumes high prayer, morytania legs 3, and access to rejuvenation pool in POH so you arent having to buy prayer pots like I did.
3:18 there is an account cracker that I found on the web that does exactly this. What it does is checks a combo list of millions of accounts the user feeds in to the program, then after it completes the list, it will log in to every account individually and view their bank. Once it sees what is in it, it logs out until all accounts are checked. Then it has the main log in and logs in to every account individually again and trades everything over.
How does it figure out the password?
Roleplay Rogue it mainly takes database leaks from all over the internet and tries those combos. It could be from a website you made an account on over 10 years ago. If you still use the same email and password, boom. You’re hacked.
@@GingieMC that's why it's good to switch up your password.
I can't remember what the site was called but there was one that let you know if your password was ever discovered in any leaks.
Not sure if it's just bc I was on at 10AM EST, but I've noticed a huge decrease in the amount of bots in f2p worlds. The mining spots in varrock didnt have a single bot. They also disabled the water sources in lumby PK
Bots have been buying all the toilet papers near my neighborhood. I need jagex to fix this ASAP!
The castle wars bot is indeed hacked accounts. Around 3 months ago my f2p account got hacked and when I logged in it was at castle wars. The lucky part was that my bank PIN had stopped them from actually getting anything (though it was on the 3 day deletion timer) so it seems they teleport there and then try to withdraw the items/money.
You can only make 1m gp doing fungi with the Morty hard diaries done, and a house with a pool to restore prayer quickly, and fairy ring access. These bots are probably only pulling in 600k an hour.
Lol, "only" 600k per hour, is a shitload when the bots can be run 24/7.
Bit farm at Kurasks and Turoths. All I’ve seen have had 97+ in all melee stats. And they come every few mins in pairs of 2. Occasionally solo. But they all where barrows armour and a battle staff with obby cape
I’d love to get a poster with all the disposable income I have from all the jobs I didn’t lose recently ... >:(
lol. gottem.
On zeah, theres a bot farm of 48-51 combat levels pick pocketing the master farmer near the fruit stalls. All have rouges and a games necklace and 80-83 thieving currently
Can we come together and a PVP not busting cc?
It sounds like fun.
*nut
Following
The house portal bots are making tele tabs.
The plank bots usually run on pvp worlds at cammy teleport with a dust staff equipped.
0:27
Did anyone notice this? LOL
there is a lot of bot in member at the edgeville furnace you see all these bot trying to mimic as if a player missclicked behind the furnace and between the furnace and the bank but they all go to the same spot everytime . they also all have random stats and not a bot name just to look less suspicious but mostly all below lvl 36 and they all have a high level smithing
Fun fact about the Zulrah Scale fishing location. I AFK two accounts there whenever I’m playing PS4 or another account and had around 1m in scales. The scales dropped to like 130gp each. Then they jumped to 256ea and I sold them. I get called a bot all the time when I’m there 😂
yup, I afk at the karambwan and get called a bot often
Been finding myself addicted to these vids. The early 2000s nostalgia is real.
But seeing the shit that happens in the game now makes me think if I even load the website I might have a scammer trying to break my kneecaps over discord
The papa Yoda one I've saw a few time and even talked shit to the dude, he must've not been botting at the time because he replied back multiple times
T0XIX ☣️ same here, the guys a nobhead
Some people play while they are home AND bot while they are away, so can definitely be both.
Plot twist, you're papa Yoda and are saying that cuz u actually bot lol
@@rcc475 I WISH i had that much money tbh😂😂 I got cleaned at the sand casino yesterday and have been rebuilding
The castle wars sketchy situation is definitely people trading over hacked gold & items. My main was hacked recently and when I logged in I was at castle wars with my HP slightly down... that bit really confused me but my bank was cleaned.
I'm doing a series soon where I get out of f2p with bonds on an ironman account. F2p worlds are absolutely flooded with bots and it's honestly astounding how blatant and simple they are. It honestly feels like Jagex doesnt want to ban them because they'll just make new free accounts and do it more. I understand, but it's still horrifying to know that on any server with 400 players, 200+ of them are probably bots.
bots hop on the second floor of the Dagganoth Lighthouse, selling random items in quantities of 5 to 15, and about 10 different items each time.
I accidentally came across this when checking the NPC that acts as a general store. I have come back to this location from time to time over the years and this bot farm is still highly active, I'm assuming its the same guy seeing as its the same items at the same quantities being sold, I can quite imagine how undetectable this is, especially when that one bot is making anywhere between 20 to 45k per world hop. I'm sure you can imagine how much money that is when running 10 bots on, 10 bots off for years on end
What if jagex has there own bots in the game to keep resources in the game flowing like cow hides hehehe
I could see it
pretty sure they do
That's overly complicated when they can just add/remove items into the game at will.
@@HeyImLucious its not overly complicated. it makes their jobs easier and keeps players interested in playing the game.
10+ free to play bots per world camping the gold spawns in dwarven mine is the most obscure. They are programmed to run anywhere in the cavee, and bank with full inventory, but if no one drops them ore, they could be sitting on mounds of cash. You can also make a train of iron ore and some bots will suicide to scorpions because they dont know how to return back to the gold spawns if lured too far.
Might make some intresting content
The worst bots are the ones THAT BUY OUT TOILET PAPER I HAVENT TAKEN A SHAT FOR 2 WEEKS CUZ I DONT HAVE TOILET PAPER
oh my god tell me about it like it cant make that much gp per hour to just constantly buy all that toilet paper
@@dialga236 lmaoo
I've actuakly had my f2p account mysteriously appear in CW and didnt know what was happening and thought nothing of it, but i didnt play for a week or two, and i came back to see my cash stack gone, just my cash stack, nothing else, it was really strange.
bro happened to me yesterday but i didnt lose my money
Can you hit up Zalcano? Almost Everybody that says “full” usually logs out or leaves when I ask them “what’s the problem you trying to gold farm for rwt?” It’s actually very annoying since regular drops really and truthfully have minimal difference on larger or smaller groups on average it’s like a 10k difference. The only time in my opinion smaller groups are worth it is if your unique hunting and I ask them that and they never respond except a few which mainly are ironmen. I know the statistics behind the groups of Zalcano for the party size but I’ve been doing Zalcano for a while now for a video I want to post and me personally will be calling out things that can be fixed about the boss in the video but the people there at Zalcano definitely need to be checked and I have no way of proving if anyone is really good farming or not but it’s really suspicious when you try to ask them if they are and they hop or log out and by the way they are usually less than 100 combat.
Hosidious General Store, I was there on my Zeah Only account, and bots hop world to world selling (5) of various items, I've tried to talk to them with no response, I hopped to different worlds and its all the same items in every world. Not sure if thats considered a bot farm or not, but figured I'd let you know! Great work - I Tigg3r I
I think the title here is getting uncomfortably close to glorifying botting
Been noticing tonnes of bots at MLM recently. All mostly level 44, but seen around 43-53 range. All seem to have done the waterfall quest and a few others for some easy levels to deter the bot detection. All have at least 100+ mining. Loads with pets. All with the prospector outfit. Some names: duix, edrtghd54, aezro, mastersd27, top 500 d va, ali kharid, ybnlxrd, the don man2. I usually frequent w520 but I hop around a lot so not just that world.
7:24 That has to be a joke, lmao.
Dylaran sadly no lol
Man you're videos are great. You approach video topics from a unique angle and it's very interesting. Good job.
RuneScape doesn’t care if they did care they would of gotten all the bots removed they care about $ why so many j mods left cuz they knew the game isn’t what it use to be and it u remove all the bots imagine the player numbers it would drop so much ^.^
and the economy would crash items would inflate and skillers would be pissed cause it would be so much more expensive to GE stand and do skills . It would be too easy for merchers to inflate items if bots didnt bring new items into the game from pvming monsters most people dont bother with
@@kingcz-ru6ce which is another reason i will never understand people who don't like the GE and want the old trading system. Like why make a slow game literally go to a stand still ....... Sounds like aids in game form to me.
@@kingcz-ru6ce You're forgetting that resource gathering would become a viable money making method again due to the bots being gone. Players who just want to have some afk fun will be able to make bank with raw resource gathering. The economy would change very little, its just that actual players would get money instead of botters.
@@kingcz-ru6ce In my opinion the old days before GE were amazing, spending hours talking and networking and making new friends, creating groups, joining merchant chats to find what you wanted. While yeah it was annoying if you're trying to level fast; It made the community feel whole. Imo.
There is a bot farm at the Piscarilius fish shop where you can buy sharks at max 256 at 100% favor, and sell on the GE for 1200. the shop holds 25 raw sharks at full stock but is never holding stock. only seen the bots a few times just gave up on my ironman to buy them anymore
It's actually insane how undetectable these bots are getting. This game is being destroyed.
destroyed? its always been the same, right from the beginning. theres several reasons why bots are not nuked. the obvious one is IRL $$$ and the osrs economy would suffer, as nobody wants to spend all the time to farm those same supplies to sell. the efficiency mindset of the community now has destroyed the game way more than bots though
Try and buy supplies when there arent bot farms gathering them all, theyre doing what people dont wanna do and keeping the economy goin
@@ShinyJacko so... you would have to play the game and gather the supplies yourself or pay what they are actually worth? why do you think they released iron man? the game is shit these days lol. can buy a max cape for $100.
8:53 Ahhhh yes, the nostalgic high detail graphics from 10 years ago ;)
0:10 Bro I literally have the same stats as the guthans guy, its my alt, and it sits at 328 if you wanna come see.
Yeah I’m not certain on which are bots / which aren’t, but I’ve heard about and found gargoyle bot scripts that specifically call for guthans, and there are lots of accounts like yours- wish I could be certain about specific accounts tho!
Sounds like something a botter would say
@@SirPugger EVScape has the same account too. But he's all combat 99's now.
@@SirPugger Xephy's Gargoyle on DreamBot lol.
Pug, there's a bot farm buying stuff from port sarim stores (varies when prices go up or down), but sometimes they're so full they resort to pvp worlds in f2p
Jagex needs to hire a couple people full time to just track down bots..
It's really not that difficult to spot bots. With mod powers it would be unbelievably easy.
Arush S yes
Harder to prove. How do you know it's not a legitimate Venezuelan player and the reason they don't respond is because they only speak english
@@Culturedtuna1 I think you meant to say Spanish?(Venezuela's language)
Fortunately translator apps are widely available for every common language.
I don't know every tool mods have at their disposal but I'm sure they have ways to track the players play time, the time they generally play, what they're doing with their money/time and trade history.
There's so many ways you could determine if an account is a bot or a legitimate one.
Plus even if an account is legitimate they may still be breaking game rules such as staking for real world trading etc.
I can speak for your castle wars theory. I hadn't played my account in years. I logged in at castle wars, with 1 untradeable members item and emptied.
In other RS groups I'm in apparently I'm not the only one
Same, but the hackers didn't seem to have touched my stuff since it was a wee lvl 3 with nothing eventworth stealing in the first place.
There is littarally a gold selling add on this vid, love the content, just take care of that add lol
Ads are based off of what you're interested in. He can't control it, Google listens to you, no joke. Talk about dog or cat food and then Google some stuff, promise you'll see a related ad to it.
Earlier I was chopping yew trees by the GE and I noticed there were always 2-3 level 13 bots on every f2p world.
How do you know all these pro bot programmers, anyway? I'm not sure what your goal here is other than RUclips views, because you talk extensively about these bot farms but you refuse to talk about who runs them, almost as if you actually don't want them to get caught. And why does that matter? Why does their privacy deserve to be respected, considering what they are doing? You use undercover aliases when contacting these people anyway, right?
You have no experience talking to people that would spend their entire day researching the people that come after them, and then try to do something extremely malicious to them with the information they found. Read back about what people did to other gilded altar hosts just for "stealing their players". Most of the time I'd imagine Pugger joins discords that have active botmakers and gets in touch with them, and the only reason he gets to speak with them is because they know they'll remain anonymous. It's not like anything will happen to the person Pugger exposes, it's literally a discord username. That's nothing to go off of, because Discord's pretty secure. It isn't like these botmakers are getting in touch and giving Pugger their name, email, and phone number for future contact.
Also, with bot farms being exposed, players go and interrupt the farms and bot makers either have to shut down or move to something else. I figure that's the reason botmakers like the cowhide bot farm is settling for less, because they're less likely to be targeted. And yeah, views are apart of RUclips. Congratulations, great analysis. Here's a medal.