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Banned Account Reinstatement

If Jagex bans any account as a result of your breach of the Rules of RuneScape and you have exhausted the Offence Appeals Process, Jagex may, in its absolute discretion, give you an opportunity to make a fixed payment to reinstate the account.

Any membership credit that is associated with an account cannot be used to pay for such reinstatement. Please note that throughout the period during which the account was banned, any membership credit will continue to expire.

Jagex is not obliged to reinstate any accounts. You are not obliged to exercise the option to reinstate your account. If you are offered the opportunity, it is entirely up to you whether you make any such payment to reinstate an account.

Any gains or advantages that Jagex considers were made as a result of using macros shall be removed from your account. You accept that the account will be returned to you, adjusted by Jagex to take account of the cheating offence, and no discussion will be entered into regarding the status of a returned account.

Lol@buying back accounts. Jagex may be using a pretty good business strategy.

Considering that 99.9% of the time the player deserved the ban anyways, I see no problem with doing this for lesser offenses (botting and the like). I hope they don't let scammers back in though, there're too many of them as it is.

But lol@people who would buy back their accounts, like pyroryan said.

Well I for one would buy 2 of my accounts back they have plenty of stuff on mostly not botted. (2 white phats, and one with a rare name/war ship)

I would do that as well, and then of course sell the account once I get it back and make profit ;).

From: Kave
Well I for one would buy 2 of my accounts back they have plenty of stuff on mostly not botted. (2 white phats, and one with a rare name/war ship)

You have no idea how long I've looked for a white phat (YEARS) I will buy one off you!! <3

From: Hobbit
You have no idea how long I've looked for a white phat (YEARS) I will buy one off you!! <3

Haha I just might but there doesnt seem to be an option from what I've read on the runescape forums they seem to notifiy you if your eligible and I haven't got any messages on the account or anything different in the appeal bans section it could just be for new accounts which get banned.

**** em, we can bot it back easily now days hehe.

Once again proving Jagex doesn't not care about you as a player, but only the money they can make off you. Welcome to the true purpose of Runescape.

instead of saying your banned they should just they have the account held for ransom.

I wonder what the costs of unbans will be…

From: Flight
Once again proving Jagex doesn't not care about you as a player, but only the money they can make off you. Welcome to the true purpose of Runescape.

We've know this all along. They are, in the end, a business out to make money.

Jagex is learning how to merch

I'd actually buy one of my accounts back if they offered me to.
Anyone here who paid such ransom?

I'm tempted to get an account banned just to see how much it will cost :P

^ But they say they might give you the chance, so there's no guarantee you'll be able to buy it back.

If they won't put my 97 mining, 99 wc, fm, fish, cook, fletch and mage back to 1 and if the price won't be that high I'll think about it :)

Edit: This isn't out yet right?

Well it does say and i quote

Any gains or advantages that Jagex considers were made as a result of using macros shall be removed from your account.

So if they THINK or CONSIDER something got botted they will remove it. Including gold, items, phats,. etc. Who knows, they might even rollback your skills.

EDIT: ANDDDD The fact that you can't even ask to pay for your account is gay. They will have to offer YOU the option

Jagex is not obliged to reinstate any accounts. You are not obliged to exercise the option to reinstate your account. If you are offered the opportunity, it is entirely up to you whether you make any such payment to reinstate an account.

So this system is pretty much one sided.

Jagex has been making some decisions lately that are all related to money. They bring back the wilderness and free trade to bring back all of the people that quit in 07, they introduce this "get out of jail" policy, and they try to sell gay tshirts.

Screw it, Jagex should just hire us to make them bots they can sell to its players through the official website.

From: IceFire908
Screw it, Jagex should just hire us to make them bots they can sell to its players through the official website.

I'm pretty sure they don't have to play the game to make accounts, a simple stat edit is possible for them, so why pay people to train stats they can have in a matter of seconds?

i bet you it'd be like.. 30$ AT LEAST. i was thinking 50.. but thats a bit high.

but yes, jagex is more greedy than ever.
reinstating scammers/hackers FTL.

From: grats
Jagex is learning how to merch

XD Classic!

From: Flight
I'm pretty sure they don't have to play the game to make accounts, a simple stat edit is possible for them, so why pay people to train stats they can have in a matter of seconds?

He means to sell to players to get their levels up, not so Jagex can train their accounts.

I bet it would be decently cheap, but they'd reset all the things that you really wanted your account back for.

From: Flight
I'm pretty sure they don't have to play the game to make accounts, a simple stat edit is possible for them, so why pay people to train stats they can have in a matter of seconds?

Where's the fun in that?

I will buy my main back, just for the green hween on it. or it is sold for the 92m i putted in the g.e that day. well anyway for the moneyzz i will buy it back. Its banned thanks to zombiefisher and me botting 12 hours a day.

How can I contact Jagex to ask for a account buy back ? or isnt it released yet and we will find it in a news letter ?

From: Matsetst
I will buy my main back, just for the green hween on it. or it is sold for the 92m i putted in the g.e that day. well anyway for the moneyzz i will buy it back. Its banned thanks to zombiefisher and me botting 12 hours a day.

How can I contact Jagex to ask for a account buy back ? or isnt it released yet and we will find it in a news letter ?

They offer you the chance to buy it back.

From: Rich
They offer you the chance to buy it back.

Pretty much this, apparently they will send you a message in your message center or give you something on the Appeal page. You could always send them an email through the billing support (which it is sort of related :p).

I'd be willing to buy back my old main if it's a decent price. I wonder if it's going to be one single payment, or if it's going to be a "contract" where you have to buy x amount of membership for x amount of time…

So I found what could be some interesting info about the process of reinstatement, courtesy of RSBot. Could be true, does sound like a way Jagex would handle it, but still take it with a grain of salt:

From: Noob str 5
People might not believe this but however, it's working. I was in Im Kepper L's cc last night, and we we're bumping threads about getting unbanned accounts. I didn't get mine unbanned yet. However, many other guys in the cc got their accounts back and that came with a big prize. Jagex sent you a message to your "message centre" on your account. You were given the opportunity from there to be willing to pay for you're account to get it back, a fee of 22.50 dollars/pounds. You could only use the cards from 7-eleven to buy your account back.

In this "opportunity", which came with a message, in your "message centre". They:

• Stated that your account would be "heavily rolled back".
• Gave you the opportunity to pay to get your account back.

And people don't take this for granted. Because the guys who got their accounts back, ended up with half the XP they had in each skill. Example, 99 Strength back to 92. Even if you have 20m xp, they lower it by half, 10m. The less level you are, the better.

Everything in you're bank was almost completely gone. Items which could stack, arrows, runes, money. They were reset back to 1. Example, if you had 200m they'd be reset back to 1 coin. Having 1 of an item, will not be reset. Like having a pair of claws, will not be touched, you will still keep them.

Here's my question, is this really worth the 22 bucks? What do you guys think about this, and about the new system of unbanning people. Is it fair or definantely out of line?

Well it depends on the account(if it has like 1 of each rare item then ill say go for it) and if the owner wants the account back, but i wouldn't pay for an account just for the stats since it can easily botted back.

So does that mean.. even if you didn't bot a certain skill they're rolling it back 50%?


I better stop playing legit

From: grats
I better stop playing legit

I stopped playing legit the day I signed up on this site :D

From: KingKong
I stopped playing legit the day I signed up on this site :D

Well I like 60/40 on my main account (40 being botting)
just because I have so many friends who play etc

but I bot on around 50+ botting accs 100% of the time so..

I hardly play on my main, because theres not much you can do without bots taking over(im f2p by the way, so bots are swarming), but i do have a few accounts that i bot on.

If its 5 dollars or less ill think about it. If its more, forget it

From: cycrosism
If its 5 dollars or less ill think about it. If its more, forget it

Its 22.50 dollars, which is not a good deal unless the acc has stuff with more value in it.

From: KingKong
Its 22.50 dollars, which is not a good deal unless the acc has stuff with more value in it.

Nty. I don't need it that bad that I actually want to spent money on it. If it was a small amount like 5 dollars or less I would consider it

I would only pay that much if there was still a rare of some type on the account. And even then, I would just trade it to a newer account that hasn't been reset so heavily. Other than that, it isn't worth it.

From: Tlachtli
So I found what could be some interesting info about the process of reinstatement, courtesy of RSBot. Could be true, does sound like a way Jagex would handle it, but still take it with a grain of salt:

lololololol. i wouldnt do it if EVERYTHING was rolled back 50%, or if they took everything stacked and put it to 1. EFF THAT. id rather just start over.
but yeah if theres some phats on there.. id go for it.

Considering that they reset money and stacked items, you'd need over 23m in singular items to justify buying back the account. Pretty much, if you don't have a rare it isn't worth it.

Holy cow how poor are you people? I'd gladly pay 22 bucks if I got the opportunity to retrieve a banned main. How many hours do you have to work to earn 22 dollars? Not many! How many hours does it take to get 60+ in, say mining? More than it takes to make 22 dollars.

That's my opinion anyways :)

Besides, 22.5 dollars is approx 14 million GP.

Originally Posted by Noob str 5
You could only use the cards from 7-eleven to buy your account back.

Why would Jaghex tell you they only accept cards from a store that isn't even in the country they operate in ?
(as far as I can google anyways)….
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060821050521AAnRuAQ

Sounds like a scam to me ?

I've tried bribing them to get my account back on NUMEROUS occasions (the last one yesterday) and offering way more than $22.50….and they aren't biting….