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Jagex: permenantly mutes one of their most influential players for not agreeing with them Also jagex: allows thousands of bots to exist at all times to boost membership numbers for public company sales Also jagex: refuses to acknowledge either

The incompetence of Jagex is unfathomable. He's a single person, they're a company; how do they manage to collectively keep a grudge towards a single person, not to mention that he's literally THE most hardcore consumer of their game. Shame on Jagex

There is also the time he broke the hiscores when he hit too high of xp at something like 4.4b. He overflowed his hiscore xp and was not rank 1 for awhile until Jagex fixed it.

SUOMI was a king and it's a shame he rarely gets the recognition he deserves. One of the best to ever do it.

Funny thing about suomi, back then when he was still grinding hard... his xp was ... incredible. This guy probably played 2 or 3 days in a row without sleeping , saw him go from 70m-200m mining in noooo time at all... all while superheating for magic + smithing. He was dedicated to the grind. The O.G players will never forget you brother. Hope ur doing well out there !

It's weird to me that he could handle hate messages and griefing every single day, but some staff at jagex couldn't handle him voicing his opinions on what many fans consider bad decisions without finding every tiny reason to punish him possible that - while probably actually in line with the rules - they didn't punish others for, even their own staff. Petty much?

7:11 Absolute Chad move of not even being there in the screenshot of his own 200m. Huge respect to SUOMI for their achievements.

Damn I feel so bad for him. Vilified by his community and the people he looked up to for small mistakes and the natural reaction to the backlash.

I love these real life lore videos. I can't wait what people have to say about that one guy named Colonello in 15 years time.

Remember the time Suomi changed his name to K O N Y back for the whole Kony 2012 movement, and Jagex force changed it back for him?

I remember s u o m i and Zezima on the high scores when I was a kid. I started playing in 05. Never forgot his name but never knew all this

That's a shame people treated him like that just for having a crazy goal and sticking to it. Hate is just so pointless, especially when it comes to something like this.

Imagine dedicating your entire life to a creation made by a group of people and then they treat you like shit for doing so

You don't realize it, but you're pretty much spot on with the edating accusation lol at the time, Jagex's chat detection extended to private messages, so if you were sharing explicit messages, you would most likely receive an auto-mute. At the time he wasn't e-dating someone (i'm not going to name them), but he was close friends with someone who was trying to help him with his personal life. Suomi disappearing wasn't really due to anything other than him actually finding a life outside of RS. She was able to help him work through his issues, and from what I know, he ended up actually getting a girlfriend. I think there's weird overlap between some of the girls he was friends with at the time, since I know he had some explicit 'e-dating' relationships around the same time that probably contributed to the mute. Either way, he disappeared because he got his life together. I can count on one hand the number of people who probably know this and there isn't really any proof other than just being one of those few people who knew at the time. I don't have an contact with him or the people we knew at the time, so idk what happened after all the fallout with Jagex and maxing. Edit: Also, I know the mutes were automatic in many cases, but I do also know that Mod Infinity at the time was exceptionally corrupt, along with other mods like Mod Ramen and that one J. Mod that had a tumblr and was e-dating a minor at the time (Mod Lee aka: Regicidal). Small group of mods who truly ruined the game in terms of community by showing favoritism to certain players and targeting those who insisted Jagex uphold the integrity of their game. I could write a novel regarding the corrupt J. Mods at the time, but it's whatever because they're all gone now.

LMAO accidentally misclicking a butterfly to max xp and then being muted so they can't celebrate or complain. this is the first time i've heard about this dude but that's fucking hilarious.

Damn, the KZfaq algorithm is crazy. I haven't played, thought about, or searched for anything RuneScape related in 15+ years and for some reason it suggested this video to me. I cannot express to you the nostalgia vibes i got from seeing the game play. Good times. Thanks for that.

Dang that is brutal. At the end of a years-long journey through your developmental years, get an offer to celebrate it publicly by the leaders of your achievement, then get it retracted because of your views and words about disliking the direction the game is going, then accidentally ruin your moment because of a new mechanic they added that epitomizes the changes you dont like.

I hope Suomi is doing well. I absolutely loved his sense of humour and his passion for this game

Man this brings back memories. I was close friends with rank 2 Jake back in the day and we would always group call on skype and one time Suomi joined the call briefly and he was such a cool guy, a legend that will never be forgotten in the runescape community!

Love the work you put into these historical videos

"After he finished school he would have tons of free time". Yeah that's where you are supposed to work.

The people who 'beat' Runescape are the ones that manage to quit for good lol

Squeal of Fortune was a disgusting move by Jagex.

It's always amazing to me how much resentment gaming communities build up towards the better players. Suomi and Zezima are Runescape's examples, but it doesn't matter which game you play - if there is a top player, there's also a chunk of players (and devs) who will find any reason they can to spit hatred at that top player. It's honestly an embarrassing facet of the gaming community, and I wish people were better at calling it out and shutting it down when it's seen.

Man, playing in the library or an Internet cafe, times were so different. Gosh that made me feel ancient haha.

Love that you gave Zarfot the recognition he deserved

Damn. The people you trust take everything and you just continue to grind like it’s nothing. Respect.

I do hope suomi is doing well. I loved his content, and was cheering for him on his way up to max xp.

I have no idea who suomi is but I'm devastated to learn what happened to their legacy 😭

What I've noticed over the years is that runescape was a real hit with people who have autism. They seem to get hooked real hard

I kinda know how Suomi felt when he got membership and when the Squeal of Fortune released. I had a similar experience when RS3's version of FSW launched. I had played for 1.5 years at this point and in terms of XP a lot of that felt invalidated by the boosted XP rates.

Colonello one of the best content creators. Gotta give him props for not following the trend of simply regurgitating other peoples clips. Thanks for the endless nostalgia bro.

I wonder how many people realize his name quite literally means F I N L A N D

First 200m all on the original servers. Such an underrated achievement in the current osrs centric community. That was the real Oldschool Runescape.

That self sabotage is tragic. Would have been the coolest thing ever. I don't blame them for retracting the offer, He was way out of line. Just so sad

I once ran across suomi (S U O M I at the time, if I remember correctly) in rs3 in prif thieving from elves in the Cadarn district. We became friends in game, I asked him why he was still thieving even though he was 200m xp, he said it was just fun. Made me look at things in a different perspective, he actually enjoyed 'just' playing the game, regardless of xp. This was back in late 2014 I believe.

the fact he got scammed just shows, its part of the Completionist

0:33 😂 the lotion in front of the PC 😂

I met SUOMI once, in the clan recruiting area. He was really chill. Thinking back, this was in 2013 right around the time the butterfly event happened. I’m very lucky to have met a legend before he left forever.

9:27 This guy from South Park is actually modelled after an ex-blizzard employee, who coincidentally now works at Jagex. He's the father of a youtuber/game studio @PirateSoftware.

I remember the days of SUOMI racing to the top. I couldn't log in a single day without hearing something about him. It was insane. I was always more of a Zezima fan personally.

I remember how I got my first membership. I was on my way to a little league baseball game and my mom told me “if you hit a homerun today, I’ll buy you membership.” I proceeded to hit a MOON SHOT to dead center my first at bat lol.

I remember seeing him in Prif pickpocketing elves. Told him I was a huge fan.

Suomi was a type who had like 6 different orange youtube and other similar type tabs open while talking in his videos

As someone who still speaks with Su., he’s still active in RS3 but not in the way you’d expect.

oof suomi is a name i havent heard in a hot minute

The only way to beat this game is to Run Escape.

I met him sometime around 02 or early 03 while mining coal for rares. We had similar levels and goals at the time, but I ended up ditching skilling entirely in favor of pking and staking especially when Rs2 was launched. He seemed like a cool and approachable kid around the same age as I was, unlike some other Finnish players (M_Oldfield, TheHate etc.) I lost touch with Suomi afterwards only playing Rs on/off and couldn't believe my eyes when I looked him up on hiscores having returned for the launch of Osrs. I think I had him added on my skiller turned plate pure so if by a stroke of luck you happen to read this - terveiset Jou Maanilta / Vorpal Sabrelta. Hyvin pelasit. :,D

Dang that's absolutely petty.

Playing at the local library was the best memory ever

Sorry but jagex digging up his old activty to find him e dating and then subsequently muting him is the most petty shit ive ever heard

@Colonello FYI coals were called Certs back then because it was essentially currency back when the game didn't have gobs of GP in circulation yet. 1 coal cert was 100 coal at the certificate dealer in fally. 1 coal wasn't 100 gp, it was 1 cert = 100 coal.

I remember him and gertjaars absolutely killing it back in the day

Just found your channel after recently getting back into osrs. I have been binging all your vids. Keep up the great work!!

in my opinion, i heard more about suomi when i was young playing runescape than anybody else, jamflex did him dirty, hopefully he is out there and reads this, you're a legend brother and we all hope you're doing great things.

Jagex doesn't ban bots. Perm mutes some guy who got 200M exp in all skills. Jagex is a joke of a company lol.

I remember meeting Suomi IRL at runefest 2011, he was staying at the same hotel as me, we all got a cool group pic together, he's a great guy, very friendly and keen to talk

I met a guy in Miscellania, who turned out to be finnish, we chatted a bit, he wanted to trade. He gave me 5m (During that time it was enough for a bond), I traded him a stein that makes yer character wobble like a drunk. After the trade he says "Paska peli". And now I couldn't agree more with him. Shitty game indeed.

I found RuneScape classic the exact same way. Kids were playing it in the school library. I made an account that day right next to them 20+ years ago.

Oh the good old days. I was grinding my 99 fishing and Suomi was going for his 200m. I donated some money and had some conversation with him in Finnish. He was really open about his goal of 200m in all skills. Not a beggar but just deticated to hit that goal.

Cool you got more OpenRSC footage in here 😁

1:15 this screenshot made me do a double take on the bear xD

He absolutely did not deserve all that fucking hate that he got. And genuinely got fucked over by Jagex with those mutes. This was during a time when the mods and devs were so very sensitive to any public criticism and Suomi wasn't the only one to suffer, popular and not. As for those of you who are haters about asking for donations.... Those people fairly gave up their cash. And he did not do any underhanded things to get people to donate. He was the equivalent to Streamers today who get bits from fans for their content they stream and record. Grow the fuck up kids. If he is still secretly playing osrs or something I hope he is enjoying it casually. Or if he is not I do hope he is doing well in his life.

I think them adding a profanity filter way back when was the last straw for me. You'd be like 'oh great a profanity filter, we can swear now~" but nope. They literally put that in place for you or other players to better detect swearing and report it. They were still vehemently against swearing. And that pissed me off.

"suomi just knew he liked firemaking" - in other words, he was a mad man 🤣

This man treated RuneScape like a cigarette smoker treats tobacco. Even though he didn't like it, he still continued. Even though he couldn't pay for 200M himself, he asked for money. This doesn't make him a bad guy to me, he's just a guy who plays the game the most out of anyone. I remember him having a spot in the official documentary of runescape, so maybe they've buried the hatchet since then?

got to meet him in game a while back, very chill

i remember when this all happened it was crazy to think someone was going to max out xp back then. now there are crazy number of people with max xp

I am so happy to see someone mention good ole tofraz

I’m surprised not to see 1 cave crawler in this video

He is a very nice guy I had him added and zezima and all the other names and one day he went online and I said hi and talked to him about the farming skill he was cool

Jagex when a player criticizes them: 😡 😡 😡 Jagex when their game is full of bots and scammers: 🙈🙉🙊

If I remember he also changed his in game name a few times too bashing Jagex. I believe at one point he changed it to "Quit for LoL"

S U O M I forever and always will be one of the most memorable rs players ever to me. He was real sucker for torture and an inspiration for it.

My memories of RuneScape: Farming chaos Druids for unidentified herb drops that sold for 1k each unidentified. Then cleaning 1 of each stack in the bank to figure out what each herb stack was without identifying it. Then, selling all the bad herbs for 1k each (massive profit) and selling the better stacks for more.

He's not entirely gone. Just mostly. Given the notoriety, however; I hope he's living a good life. Source: I met Zezima through the 2014 Weekly Challenge Hiscores event (herbs farmed) & distinctly remember doing some DMs with him. It says my discord account was around since Dec 2015, so it might've been then it might've been in 2016, but I swear I remember it happening. Pretty much confirms the raunchy stuff he'd say that got him in trouble... sounds like a normal guy tbh just with a superhuman ability to hyperfocus for long periods of time. (Lord, give me strength & opportunity to make my RuneScape goals come to fruition...)

0:46 is it just me or does the fire making skill icon look like ice barrage but fire

That metal door near falador was what made me want membership i begged my mom for 2 years then finally on my birthday she got me 1 month and i was even more hooked i can feel the excitement again watching this vid

I remember Suomi training agility. He told me he would be #1 player one day. I met him a few other times and he was always friendly. Too bad things went the way they did.

5:14 he decided to stay in the forest, killing boars. Seven weeks, five days, thirteen hours, and twenty minutes, with three hours a night to sleep.

Honest and sincere person overall.

omg I couldn’t imagine the impact that grind would have on their mental health.

A surprisingly accurate video. Good job!

I remember grinding 99 Runecrafting with Suomi and then he went for 200m exp at the RC minigame in the wizards tower. I was there for his 200m celebration. He was actually a nice person.

13:40, saved you time.

I don't have strong opinion about Zarfot's discoveries. Great if people enjoy tick-manipulating, doesn't affect me.

If anyone is wondering, Saomi sold his account years ago on G2G. Don’t know who bought it and I can’t remember the price exactly, but it was sold for around $3,000.

This hits close to home, thanks for the video.

This is un related to the video... but i remember soloing dks back in the day when someone "crashed" me so i checked his name with my cursor and it said Mod Zezima. We talked for probably 5 minutes... what a great and kind guy honestly.

met him at runescape gathering 2008 with so many others like dark arm3, mithzan, maxboison etc good times :')

Bro really had kids learning techniques to donate to him efficiently 💀nah idc he winning fr 😂😂

really weird back in the day i heard how suomi said something crazy in chat and was muted for it and people hated him i guess his worst crime was asking for donations, not the best option imo, but he wanted exp so understandable

man i hope he sees this video where ever he is now... legend

1:15 i was thinking i dont remmeber bears having ballsacks back in 2002.

13500 hours to be lebel max? Ok I'm gonna try the game today. Im curious, i love to grind and i could watch cartoons while playing. Im already down for it

Can you imagine coming up with a plot to get back at an almost max XP player by making butterflies that give XP flutter around everywhere, hoping that he would misclick one, and it actually fuggin works XD

You forgot to mention when he changed his name to “quitforLoL” classic

When you mentioned Zarfot I remembered how many of his videos I had watched in awe back in the day. RIP to SUOMI and Zarfot...

Met Jake a few days ago in OSRS at Anglers, saw he was pmod but didn't think much of it. Didn't know he was big on RS3 hiscores.