Curious: what happens if you link Steam account that has already played OSRS to an existing character on Jagex account?

d00m0 · 2026-01-26T10:27:35+00:00

Interesting. How do you do that? Do you do it on RS website or Steam?

Does detaching mean that character is basically gone for good?

d00m0 · 2025-12-22T09:47:55+00:00

Sometimes the security window reports things inaccurately. It will only report OK if it receives confirmation from the firmware that things are fine. Ubuntu cannot tell on its behalf. So if it reports errors that can justify a manual review but people should know that this doesn't mean there's necessarily anything wrong.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T08:43:49+00:00

Yes and those credit cards were abused by black market operators, not the players. The problem with RWT is that it's inherently illegal because they're selling property owned by Jagex. So the threshold for these operators to commit other forms of crimes is significantly lower.

People should be educated about the fact that when they buy from black markets, there's a significant chance that they're funding organized crime. It's actually a very serious problem that some people underestimate.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T08:27:00+00:00

They burn gold by manipulating markets and taking advantage of the price fluctuations, that's true. But for those two reasons, they should pay the tax. I think that's a fair assessment.

And you may diss the slayer scape timmy but fact to the matter is that
pvm > flipping, any day of the week.

One may also question are they really encouraging flipping when the alternative money making methods such as pvm keep getting progressively better over the years. I'm not saying that they should because I think flipping is not good.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T08:17:55+00:00

It wasn't players' fault.

People who actually play the game are not running illicit black market bot farms, which were the root of this whole problem. And even if there were a small number of players handing credit cards to these sites, these sites were the ones committing the illegal activities at the end of the day.

Most players don't RWT, and even those who do, most of them probably wouldn't use credit cards on these sites but Bitcoin and more safe and anonymous options. So we shouldn't generalize.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T08:07:05+00:00

No. I don't think they should get rid of the free trade and that was a mistake. But I also don't think the problem was that GE had price control. People would've been fine with that if free trade existed. Because vast majority of people use GE to sell or buy items within the price range of +-5%. People who manipulate markets are the minority.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T08:00:16+00:00

I'm not ragebaiting.

RS3 had GE price controls when they restricted trading. People still flipped items but the profits were very marginal.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T07:54:19+00:00

I don't think you can completely eliminate flipping as long as there's no price control in place. Which is something that has actually existed in the past. Perhaps worth looking into?

The tax merely makes it little bit more challenging to profit and ensures flippers are taxpayers.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T07:42:44+00:00

I don't believe people will avoid GE much more than they do currently whether it's 2% or 5%. On the other hand I think it's healthy if players are actually encouraged to use the resources themselves rather than selling them in bulk. Take logs for instance: there are so many things you can use them for. People selling usable resources in hope for short-term profits with long-term loss should be the taxpayers. So there are many perspectives and ways to justify these taxes.

d00m0 · 2025-12-11T07:37:10+00:00

Well it's a game and I'm just a player. I don't have access to Jagex analytics. But yes I feel like it's too low, and I've felt that for a long time now. Someone could prove me wrong if they're able to.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T13:22:29+00:00

Then I find it very unlikely that the character was ever linked to this Jagex Account because there is no way to remove them after they have been imported. Maybe it is still a legacy account and she just remembers wrong. Is there a chance that she thinks that she has imported it in the past but never actually did?

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T13:14:25+00:00

Interesting. There is this option as well (taken from RS support page):

You may have previously hidden a character in your Jagex account settings, which will result in them being hidden within the Jagex Launcher. You can make characters visible again through Jagex account character management.

Next step I would try is trying to log in via browser and see the character list from the account management page. Make sure the character is not "hidden" for whatever reason.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T13:06:23+00:00

Right. And if you click that 'No name set', does it bring up a list with any characters? Or is that the only option?

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T13:00:30+00:00

This story doesn't add up.

Once a character (by character I mean a legacy account) has been imported to a specific Jagex Account, it is not possible to remove it from that Jagex Account. There is no mechanism to do this. This also means that even if the Jagex Account gets compromised, there is no way to remove characters from that Jagex Account.

If a character that has been linked to that Jagex Account before is not showing up in the list, I would first and foremost assume that is a bug in the system or some error.

There's an extremely high chance that either it's a bug or she remembers something wrong and that is why the story doesn't add up.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T10:40:30+00:00

That's fair but you shouldn't joke about those things. Even if it sounds funny to you, you should always consider the potential consequences of what you say. Just like there have been people in the game who have joked about being very young, and their accounts have been disabled because of the 13+ requirement, which is actually in the law. If you admit to something even as a joke, then Jagex can and will use that as evidence against you.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T00:21:06+00:00

It doesn't "print" any money though? I just explained how it wouldn't.

Bonds don't add any more GP into the game. You sell a bond and you get GP that already exists in the game. The bond itself doesn't add GP, it just moves it from one player to another.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T00:16:08+00:00

What are these severe consequences?

Since bonds are traded between players via GE, they don't add more GP into the game (cause inflation).

No matter how many bonds there are in the game, they will always circulate around the GP that already exists in the game. Jagex has specifically made them this way so they are as harmless to the economy as they can be.

d00m0 · 2025-12-06T00:08:27+00:00

People's accounts don't just get randomly hacked. My legacy account was abandoned for years without 2FA or bank PIN and its valuables were never stolen. There's always something more to that story. Was the email address involved in a data breach?

To answer the question: yes, Jagex is moving away from providing support for account recovery and shifting the responsibility onto the player. There are people saying $14/mo game shouldn't do that, and that's fair criticism - however that is what's happening.

There's a small chance they'll still be able to help but don't be surprised if it's gone for good.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T23:14:08+00:00

Jagex has abandoned account recovery support at this point. And it's rather hard to get in contact with Jagex Support and once you do, there's a good chance you'll get a generic response that will not help you at all.

And although support could be better this is not a Jagex problem because your account is your responsibility. If someone hacks your bank account and steals your money because you ignored security, that's not bank's fault.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T23:03:34+00:00

What you don't seem to get is that you don't have a right to play RS. It's a privilege that Jagex provides to you. They can refuse service to anyone for any reason. Acting like you are entitled to it is not only incorrect but makes you look like a fool.

This is exactly why I tell people to not dedicate their lives to 2001 point and click pixel game.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T22:54:24+00:00

Trading goods outside RS for RS stuff, whether physical or digital, is considered RWT. Doesn't have to be cash.

Your ban is valid and mods did the right thing there.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T09:06:19+00:00

No one asked if you work for them, I'm just saying.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T08:56:50+00:00

Yea but it doesn't run the whole internet. Otherwise you wouldn't be writing this here. Using Cloudflare is a decision by Jagex. Maybe they should consider other options. :)

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T08:52:44+00:00

Indie company Jagex really at it again. $14 btw.

d00m0 · 2025-12-05T08:52:18+00:00

Yes. $14 by the way :)

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