Hey TRB readers, i know your all probably wondering why TRB is no longer updated on a frequent basis, and we’re very sorry for this. Many of the original staff members that signed on to bring this blog to where it is today have left due to real life situations and so forth. The site however is still active and still has alot of potential, so i am looking for a new motivated Head Blogger that could get this blog on the road. If you are interested please submit a resume through the “Apply for Blogging Position” button on top.

-Soul

Over the course of the last 6-7 years, the emergence of MMORPG’s and online gaming has been immense. Many many games have come out, and while some became very successful, others ended up becoming wasted money. Either way, the games that did survive the initial onslaught of bad reviews and criticisms by skeptics became a battleground for players. Everyone is racing and battling to reach the top. Some form guilds to help each other, others grind all day and night to reach their goals. As you can see, this becomes a very painful task. Imagine wanting to reach level 80 in world of warcraft, but yet you feel like it takes forever. How about when you want to buy that party hat or new third age armor?

Don’t worry, its crossed all our minds at one point or another. So do hacks and dupes really exist? I know from personal knowledge that less than a year ago, botting was a very prevalent.  Players began looking for RuneScape cheats or RuneScape hacks. Some did have luck cheating in games such as RuneScape, which lead to even bigger ambitions, you can read about an example in our other article about the dark side of runescape cheating. Let me say that bots did in fact exist at one point, but now selling gold in RuneScape is nearly impossible. All the major runescape gold sellers have now shut down, but this cost jagex many many players.

There are however legitimitate ways to leveling up and obtaining items, many players began to look for RuneScape tips, RuneScape money guides, RuneScape quest guides. Many of these players prevailed and these are the types of players that didn’t get banned. So to sum up this article, bots and dupes DID exist at one point.

Well as many of you have noticed by now, we are not as frequent in putting up new posts on TRB as we used to be. We apologize for the haitus and would like to bring out a message. There is currently a great demand for good bloggers for The RuneScape Blog, we do not have enough people to write blog posts and we would greatly appreciate it if anyone interested would please submit their blogger application using the “Blog For Us” button found at the top.

Thank You.

-Soul

Well most of our readers by now know that we’ve been under heavy attack from spammers through our comment system and DDoS. We’d like to proudly say that we are combating this threat, we have installed a new comment filter that will work as a second more powerful spam barrier past the Wordpress comment engine.

We hope to keep spam off the database using this method, and for those of you who are curious as to why we have been posting so seldom, the writers have been increasingly busy nowadays. We apologize for this unexplained hiatus, but we do hope on returning full time to The RuneScape Blog soon! Once we do, we promise to deliver the same quality content TRB was made to deliver.

Why is RuneScape Addicting?

This question means different things to all of us. Over time RuneScape has evolved and the reason why we play the game could have fluctuated, maybe it was to pass time, maybe your just a little kid with nothing better to do, or maybe it was the pure fun factor of the game that had you coming back for more like that girl you know in school. Its different for all of us, but ill tell you guys about me.

I started playing RuneScape in December of 2004, and i was around 12 years old. I had alot of time. I wish i had that much now. Anyway, you know, tech was still evolving, its always evolving. I was just simply hooked on the game. I started off with a level 70 that my friend told me to cut wood for him. Little did i know he was using me to make cash, so i made up around 300k gold and one day i tried to login and i couldn’t! Well turns out my friend took the account back. But there is one thing i realized after that, i was good at making money. I knew how to work hard and achieve, and since there were no macro bot armies or anything back then well, legal gold making was easy!

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