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Real-world trading

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Real-world trading

Real-world trading
Type Mechanic
Videos 1 (first 2025-09-16, latest 2025-09-16)
Main source JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS)

Real-world trading is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-09-16. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Tips

  • He has heard, as hearsay and not as something he knows, that buyers used to get a one to two week ban and have the cash stack removed only if it was left in the bank, while gold spent on items like a Zaryte crossbow or put into the Blast Furnace coffer was not taken away.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says Jagex has an incentive to be lenient with gold buyers because buyers are paying members who keep playing, while a banned bot just comes back and pays for membership again.2
  • Gnomonkey says if buyers could keep items bought with the gold, the only consequence would be a temporary ban, so he doubts whether Jagex will follow through on item confiscation and says the only way to find out is hearing from people who get banned.3
  • Gnomonkey asks whether Jagex will track muling, such as buyers trading the gold to alt accounts to avoid confiscation or bans.4
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex needs to lean towards permanent bans and take a scorched-earth approach to gold buyers, because they are the root of the market and bots will never stop coming back while gold buyers exist.5
  • Gnomonkey says he hopes Jagex really swings the hammer, believes they want to, and notes they have been hiring many people in anti-cheat.6

Events

  • In September 2025 Jagex published a new blog post about real-world trading, announcing it would take a harsher line against players caught buying gold from illicit sellers.7
  • Jagex's blog defines real-world trading as buying or selling in the real world for real money in exchange for anything of value relating to Old School accounts, including items, names and services.8
  • Jagex's blog says real-world trading creates a financial incentive for people who do not care about the game to flood it with bots and throwaway accounts to gather gold to sell.8
  • Historically Jagex treated gold buyers more leniently than sellers when issuing penalties for real-world trading.9
  • According to the blog, Jagex will issue bans, temporary or permanent depending on the situation, even for first offences, and will confiscate items from offenders who buy gold.10

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-09-16 JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS) Page created: 11 statements (event, opinion, tip)
## References

  1. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 7:25 ↩

  2. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 6:25 ↩

  3. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 8:20 ↩

  4. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 8:50 ↩

  5. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 9:18 ↩

  6. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 16:13 ↩

  7. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 0:00 ↩

  8. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 3:31 ↩↩

  9. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 5:59 ↩

  10. JAGEX FINALLY CRACKING DOWN ON RWT (OSRS), 2025-09-16. ▶ 6:55 ↩

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