As one of the oldest, biggest, and best-understood MMOs around, Old School RuneScape has long been plagued by bot accounts using scripted actions to generate ill-gotten gold to sell on a gray market. This has led to congestion at popular areas in-game, with real players fighting bots for space and resources, and huge fluctuations in a trade market battered by absurd spikes in supply. But for the first time in a very long time, an extinction-class meteor seems to have hit the bot armies.
Two OSRS experts, SirPugger and FlippingOldSchool, both weighed in this week and came to the same conclusion: bots have been annihilated. This follows several periods of record-high OSRS botting in the past few years.
