
Originally Posted by
Kevin
But in reality let's look at this from a business standpoint.
Let's say the biggest gold farmers are caught within 2 weeks of their account's creation each time they make an account. The gold farmer is very happy because hey, they more than paid off their account, and Jagex is happy because "We caught x more gold farmers!" That gold farmer made a decent profit and he creates account 2 that is also caught within 2 weeks and repeat session.
But wait a second.. He made money and basically paid 2 months for 1 account. So Jagex is making EXTRA money off bots by banning them. If Jagex banned them sooner and botting wasn't profitable, then bots would actually go away. Botting is profitable for everyone now in the currently occurring scenario though because Jagex is getting extra payments for people not using their full time.
Maybe that's not happening on purpose... Maybe.