When I was in high school I didn't have a credit card or money to buy a Minecraft account but my buddy had a friend in Venezuela on his server who bought me a Minecraft game license in exchange for helping him mine diamonds for some arbitrary amount of time. Shout out to Venezuela for silently holding up the entire gaming industry I guess.
I used to farm skeletal wyverns on OSRS non-stop when Venezuelans started coming in and made a few friends with them after seeing them at wyvs for 16-18 hours a day. I spoke pretty regularly with one dude, and ended up getting burnt out for a while so I gave him all my gold (had a bank value of 240m at the time, nothing insane) and his mum ended up jumping on his account to thank me for feeding the family for the week basically. Shit REALLY put into perspective how awful some people's lives are, and how a minor act can be a huge change in someone's life for a week. Wherever you are Pablo, hope you and abuela are eating good and staying safe!
I know a couple Venezuelans that still make their living thru OSRS although Jagex have cracked down on real-world trading theres still workarounds. He also maxed his entire account and now occasionally he will sell it to a website and then recover it days later, kinda baffled how he hasn't been banned yet honestly.
I got hooked on your content through the Otherland saga, and been watching since. A reliable, trustworthy voice we need, and I wish your Other land saga had more exposure. Keep up the good work.
Ah, nothing makes me prouder of being Venezuelan than knowing the legacy of my country is...gold farming in Runescape....WE DID IT EVERYONE! This was Chavez's plan all along! Crippling our economy for the next few decades so that we can make Runescape history, what a visionary!
maybe it was the thousands of illegal sanctions from the US that made it impossible to sell any oil (number one venezuelan export) that crippled economy, idk tho :D
Those U.S. Sanctions were because each and every U.S. president since they've started have been trying to drive down the cost of really rare early event items! The oil industry was a front for the party hat industry.
"There was just this one valiant, blood-soaked, brave, courageous warrior somewhere in the world, armored up and good to go with this poison wall slowly closing in around him, standing there looking for a fight, looking around and seeing no one, and on the other side of the world in a small poison village, there was a man just violently eating fish" Favorite part of the video
"And then on the other side of the world in a small poisoned village, there was a man just violently eating fish!" Brand new sentence if ever I've heard one.
They said it was a survival tournament, last man standing, not a combat tournament or a fighting tournament or a dueling tournament, He played within the rules even if it was against the spirit! BUT! Let's be honest, if it came down to two (or more) people doing the same thing "violently eating fish" or something similar, then they'd get nowhere if combat didn't happen, so I kinda see why they have to discourage this kind of playstyle...
@@PhunkieZero I feel it was arguable at best, from what I understood of the explanation they had specifically made is you couldn't note / unnote at banks which makes it pretty apparent that they didn't want you to have access to that and everyone knew it, Woox included and disqualifying him for exploiting something unintended in the competition would've been perfectly fair. People might say "It's their fault for missing it not the players" but that kind of thinking is always going to be BS. It's obvious you shouldn't be doing it and you did it any ways, be an adult and take responsibility instead of pretending to be a new born baby with no concept of accountability.
The vid was good, but I feel like this is only scraping the surface of scandals here. For example, Mod Jed used his position in the company to help his clan win an in game tournament by leaking them the IP addresses of their competitors, allowing them to DDoS their opponents.
@@ManyKudos yea fair enough. Mod Jed helping RoT DDoS for DMM wins, Mod Jed leaking the revenant caves "better loot when skulled" mechanic to RoT (nobody else knew about it for years since he implemented it himself), Mod Jed giving player login credentials to RoT so they could steal items, Mod Reach getting fired for spawning in gold to sell for real money, Mod Zuko quitting over sexism, Mod Mark D from corporate forcing the mods to poll subscription-based early access cosmetics...there's probably enough for 2 more videos, not to mention all the other DMM failures
I was one of the original 2k Runescape players back in 2000. My name was literally Fire Mage. I remember logging into the game world and being asked what class I wanted to be (you could choose like 4-5 different classes and you'd get some starter items) and immediately being killed because players could just kill you anywhere and Lumbridge/Draynor were the only places in the game to be at that time. I'm actually in that Falador Massacre video as well following the chaors around (white haired guy in red cloak)
I remember talking to a venezuelan, he needed to make 200m a week in RuneScape to afford his grandmother's medical treatment. I always gave him a little extra out of my split in raids.
Even without 10 grand on the line I’d argue plenty of players would be willing to use exploits rather than play in the way/spirit intended, if only for a laugh. If you’re going to put a competition in your previously non-competitive game you need to make your mechanics and rules as airtight as possible, because you can guarantee someone, somewhere, will find and exploit gaps in either.
@@AGrumpyPanda it wasn't a battle royale game but there was a PS3 game with moving safe zones and instead of losing health, if you were outside of the safe zone a timer would tick down and then stop when you entered a safe zone (the timer wouldn't reset it would just pause). If the timer ever reached zero you would instantly die. I'm surprised battle Royale games don't just do that.
I knew a Venezuelan dude The dude used to play tibia and runescape just so he could buy food for his family He said he was making a little bit more than the average person just playing games
I only met one Venezuelan dude. He was chill. Told me he had been farming green drags all day. Had two alts running to run off other bots and pkers. I was there for slayer. He let me take his spot and he logged off lmao
Josh Strife Hayes looks like if someone had been playing runescape, wow and 40k for their whole life and had the body you get from that lifestyle, until one day they met a genie and just said "I WISH I WAS HOT" and now he's just coping with his new reality in the best way he can think of.
As a nearlly-maxed OSRS player, I can confirm that these are all true, with great details and examples that you've added for clarity. I'd like to add that Mod Ash is the backbone of Jagex's Oldschool Runescape team, the game would not be the same without him, and the OSRS community cherishes him dearly. Another "scandal" that's very recent is the negative feedback following the announcement of "Fresh Start" worlds, where you would need to create a new account and purchase new membership to play on a fresh server with a seperate Grand Exchange market from the rest of the servers, which have a combined GE item buying/selling market across all servers. Players are viewing this as a way for Jagex to artifically inflate their "player numbers" to increase the company's resale value, instructed to do so by Jagex's owners - The Carlyle Group, a soulless investment company that views Jagex as nothing but a cash cow. Every time the community doesn't like something, as is tradition, we riot in Falador, and Nan goes back in the cage. Ban Emily. 🦀$12.49 🦀
You missed the time they actually rolled back the servers for the first time in runescape history when they pushed an update that caused any stacked items to drop as max piles of cash. Some people used that to buy bonds on the grand exchange and had their accounts banned for as long as they had cashed in bonds because Jagex had no way to remove the membership from their accounts.
That was not the first roll back. Haxunit found a way to crash worlds and Jagex had to roll back I think an hour or two on accounts on the effected worlds. I know this because I was on one of those worlds and had to do a very long quest all over again. Along with one of my friends losing a dragon claws drop and another losing an Armadyl hilt.
@@ManyKudos reading Eve stories is probably the closest experience we'll ever get to our descendants' experience learning history in their schools or reading some war news hundreds thousands years from now
🎮Big thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video, I've been using their service for years so I'm stoked to be able to promote it! 🎮 Are there any Runescape scandals you'd like to see me cover in a part 2?
I sent this to my OSRS playing friend and he had a couple things: 1) Mod Jed and ROT rigging situation. 2) massive banks coming down on RS to crack down on CC fraud, leading to the removal of free trade, pking, and the NEAR DEATH of the company because of it.
This isn't exactly a scandal, but Zezima's story of just being RuneScape famous and what that meant. Including people trying to discover his real name to him being mobbed while trying to do anything within the game is pretty interesting.
James and his little laugh about clearing the auto correct or autofill at the Squarespace advertisement his little giggle literally made my day thank you James
Fun fact not mentioned in this video: One of the main players who helped take down Mod Jed had the username sonicr34, and was recently in the news because he was a center figure of economic inflation in RS3. To learn more google sonic r34 inflation.
Funny enough the edp117 story reminds me of a similar story with an even happier ending for the modders. Back in the Warcraft 3 days a group of modders got together and made a custom game. A little game called "Defense of The Ancients" aka DoTA. It was one of the biggest and popular custom modes in Warcraft 3, and at the time Blizzard didn't really care about capitalizing on this custom game (hindsight 20/20 moment) but one developer Did...... ValVe.... Gabe Newell and ValVe swooped in and offer the modders the greatest opportunity of a lifetime, officially working at ValVe as their own developer studio and make their custom game mode a fully fleshed, fully redesigned, and fully supported Game. They said yes and that lead to DoTA 2 one of the biggest E-Sport phenomenons of all time with dozens of major tournaments and 10 international tournaments with prize pools in the tens of Millions, and it kicked off the birth of a whole new genre of game the MOBA which lead to one of the other biggest know games of all time League of Legends and even Blizzard saw the sucess and created their own MOBA Heroes of the Storm. Now if Jagex had the smarts of ValVe they could have completely avoided the outrage and have edp117 officially working alongside their team to make their official HD project even better.
Seeing the intro now I'm kinda interested in whether there will be a "Many Scandals" video on Final Fantasy XIV. I haven't even been playing it for like more than a year and already I saw a major scandal in which an ERP club in the game paid $12,000 for an actual billboard in like Texas and Arizona to advertise an in-game RP event they were hosting. Also apparently they also misappropriated donation money for it and the billboard contained both the actual Square Enix trademark and risque texture and pose mods which are strictly against FFXIV ToS, resulting in the potential for an actual lawsuit and putting the entire modding community at risk. Genuinely fucking insane.
@@TheNewRobotMaster Yes it was indeed quite comedic. Kinda sucked for me though because I play on the world the club was in and noticed lag due to the massive influx of people brigading the club for their stupidity.
@@theodorehodbor5080 I didn't know people could just hop into the world. That kinda sucks that their steamy text club caused other players lag. On the other hand though... lol
Not just modded cosmetics, but *datamined unreleased* cosmetics put in through mods Also one of the mods of the discord server hosting the billboard stating that people posting clown emoji reactions on their announcements were “basically terrorism” without a shred of irony
I feel that a FFXIV video would be very short 😅 There aren't as many scandals for that game as WoW or Runescape. There's stuff like "Skip soar or kick" that's funny to look back on as a player but not sure how interesting that is to a general audience.
i have to agree if i had the money to reward a player who technically played within the rules and was able to win from a cheesy exploit, I would have given that smart player the money.
Not going lie suprised Josh Strife Hayes showed up and I don't know why I expected josh to just be in the background with his matrix trench coat thinking deeply many kudos speaks. Either way It's awesome.
Jagx should have paid woox directly. If they didn’t change the description of the game from survival to pvp then I would say they shouldn’t. Because they specifically changed it because of what he did, they acknowledged he won and are probably vulnerable to legal action especially because that mod paid him. Otherwise they should have just called him a cheater and patched every hole he found.
For server rollbacks, here are some options: - If they have a log of all the people that the person killed, roll back all those players who were killed. - If there's a log of which players were in that area, and they had been killed in that time period, roll back those players. - If no such logs exist at all, give people the option within a certain timeframe, if they want to be rolled back until before the raid. With the rollback, that goes for their bank content too. So even if a person decides to bank all their remaining stuff to have it "copied", that wouldn't be possible, since the bank also will be rolled back (this would be a valid point for unaffected people wanting a rollback too).
For anyone interested, the music used at 24:41 is "The Marathon" by Jim Andron, made in 1992 for the album "Tetris". Only reason I know is because the almighty algorithm decided that's what I wanted to listen to one day, and it kinda stuck around. I don't even play tetris. Anyone else get that weird fuzzy feeling when you realise you actually recognise the music being used? On another note, another great video on a game I've never played before and probably never will. :)
The RuneLite HD fiasco was the straw that broke the pack yak’s back for me. I hadn’t had fun playing RuneScape in several years and as soon as I heard about that from second-monitor Josh Strife Hayes, I cancelled my membership and quit. Haven’t gone back since.
There was an omega egg incident that created trillions in extra gp, this completely destroyed the price of gp. An incredibly interesting topic to look into.
From what I hear, theres been another scandal. One of the Jmods, Jmod Triton, was dating a streamer who was not only rigging in-game competitions and RMTing, but she also had her Jmod boyfriend ban whoever she wanted. The streamer got banned, and a number of the victims were unbanned, but I dont know what has happened with Triton.
Holy shit. I remember fishing for lobbies at that island nearly two decades ago as it was a great way to grind for gold and fishing xp. There are people grinding on RS for their LIVES.
Woox reminds me of one time I tied a deathmatch in Gears of War by hiding behind a car while the other team tried to find me 4v1. They game up and just started shooting at the sky until the timer ran out
Honestly this list really really really makes me wanna see a video where you go over all of eve online‘s biggest scandals because I’m sure they’re just as many and I’m sure they’re just as expensive if not more so because Eve is backed by real money
18:30 Wow luckily someone noticed that very small detail. If not, we still would be thinking that the regular mods were involved with this horrible decision. Also pretty clever of the mods to not list their names like usual, to hint that it wasnt their decision.
while not a necessarily a scandal, i remember the wildest thing i learned about runescape was steve bannon, trump's former strategist and love of pouring acid into hot tubs, ran a company of gold farmers after meeting someone who made a ton of money doing it.
I don't think Mod Ash gave Woox the 10k because he believed Woox played within the confines of the game, rather Mod Ash gave Woox the 10k out of fear what else Woox could do within confines of the game.
I got 99 strength at that HD client riot by killing one of the falador guards lol I have not played old school steady for a couple months now I miss it.
Cool, just learning now that Brian David Gilbert has a New Zealander clone. Also finally understanding why so many people thought I was from there. Kinda Aussie/Irish/American/South African accent. A weird hodgepodge that varies even in the middle of syllables.
@Crash Bandicunt - Yeah, visit many bonus levels lately there, CB? On behalf of my friends and my self, those damn levels really 'BONEDUS'... haha!!! Huh?! Huh?!! What'd ya think about that one, eh?!?! Cuz your game fkn boned us.
That Woox story made my day. That's absolutely amazing. I also laughed so hard I had to share the whole story with my wife when I heard 'there was a man violently eating fish'.
Worth noting that 117 has apparently been MIA for a while, long enough for his co-contributors to the mod to have to migrate the github project to a fresh one since they couldn't push the updates they were making without him. It's been a good while since they posted about it, but I don't know if he has turned up yet.
24:39 I have literally used the same transitions in my videos from the same video that you found on RU-vid and I'm just gonna tell you how much I appreciate that
Ah the classic "no you can't release this! We plan to do the same thing!" And as always, it's one massive self own as the enormous wealthy corporation all but explicitly says that they can't even match the effort and/or quality of one guy in his basement.