He sucks at the game lol

Sounds like another jealous spectator of the tick perfect fiend mod mat k​@CODCritic101

@@rsdudetsom Little bit of technique in there as well

He's dropping inv's of iron quick boi

LMAO i choked

Agree. Guy is a legend and deserves respect. Also agree with you that bots are a problem and I want to add it's not just in wilderness. Game functions with them but how can you say they're truly needed when we've never had a completely bot free game. People can adapt to higher prices. I think removing bots is exactly not being afraid of trying out things which I think is a very good mindset with everything.

Was looking for this - I was a little surprised to how little of a problem he thought bottling was.

I have never tried PvMing in the wilderness which is probably why i have never seen them.

@@RealMatK Thank you for a great cast!

He is the reason why botting is such a problem and why osrs is in the place it is right now, a broken mess. Nobody else than the teamleader should and could take responsibilty for that, that he never did. Actually it is just a grown up baby in a leader roll, no wonder he got fired and I would love to know the real reason why.

as a person who has never noticed being negatively affected by bots, what would removing them immediately change for me in-game?

​@kevinstephens4035 There would be ALOT less players in the game and common materials would be alot more expensive. Shoot, with how advanced bots are now everything would go up in price lol

I must say this really caught me off-guard as well. Love Mat K, but arguing that bots are okay because "you can still play the game" is quite silly

it actually is quite in character with Mat K IMO. Things like gold farming to feed your family or pay for college are some things he'd get behind, although he may still have had to unleash the ban. He has stories related to it and I dont wanna speak for him lol he just has a very human perspective.

everything would go up in price, but that only effects mains, and honestly... hardly.. since those increased prices often come as drops too. Some weird thing like Sanfews would probably go up to 100+k each... but then that'd be a 700k drop at PNM which makes that boss pretty good alone lol@@deputyswine Im not on a game econ so IDK for sure lol its just hard to say if prices going up is inherently bad as well

It's one of my favorite jokes, unlocking prif on my uim is one of the most meaningful gaming experiences I've ever had

@@kmdoqjw1234 still haven't l0l 2k total haven't even bothered

🔫 always has been

@@TinKnocker69 dats da joke

Ult Iron is definitely the hardest game mode. The amount of dedication it takes. The sheer amount of GP$ you watch disappear on the ground is wild@@kmdoqjw1234

Possibly subconsciously reminded to spec by the word "fish"

WIsh we got a bit more info on internal drama with Reach. But thank you for the incredible cast. Loved every minute. Incredible insight from the RuneDaddy himself.

Whenever I was moved during a long session I would type in all chat to a theoretical Jmod as I wasn't sure how automated it was. I'd say things like "Hope you're having a nice day in the office, I'll go back to my chosen world now thanks", "I'm not a bot I'm just unemployed" & "Hi there..... Yes I know you are watching" I've had qutie a few years to mull over how the system may have functioned and I'm pretty confident none of it was ever observed but no regrets, it's usually a pretty good idea to spark consciousness wherever you don't get un-alived imprisoned for it.

Yeah about that. Remember the new prayer book that would have completely ruined the game? It passed with flying colors and the only reason it didn't get added is because of a decision Jagex made after it had already been polled.

I believe Mat is responsible for the Corporeal beast AFK feature that Mod reach was fired for and that reach agreed to take the hit to preserve Mat's standing within the company and also so that Mat could ensure none of the other exploits were ever found.

I think the fact that almost any dedicated multi-account player that treats OSRS as a continuum game rather than sticking to a single account as a proving grounds to either themselves or the community tends to have an ironman account shows that most players who take Runescape seriously do not take the ingame economy seriously. And a lot of the people who do take it seriously wind up grinding something they don't enjoy purely for GP before burning out for a few months to years at a time. As much as I dislike Gnomemonkey for his abuse of access to people that can build custom runelite plugins for him due to his notoriety (where as other players have to either learn Java and build their own or wait for someone to make a tool they can adopt) that he was correct in saying that we veteran players that have been here since at least the first 1-2 years of RS2 have been systematically gaslit by Reddit users, market manipulators and newer generations of players and typecast as so autistic that we're basically incapable of having an adult psychology prescribed to us when they themselves have the least interest in talking about or analyzing the game. More often than not OSRS is dictated by popular opinion and people like Mat behave in a populist manner to cater to that. I believe in my heart of hearts that Mat is the true mind behind the Corporeal beast AFK "bug" and that Mod reach simply took the fall because he was complicit and held a lower stature within the company so he'd have to take the heat while Mat made sure none of the other manipulative "bugs" were never found.

I believe Mat is responsible for the Corporeal beast AFK feature that Mod reach was fired for and that reach agreed to take the hit to preserve Mat's standing within the company and also so that Mat could ensure none of the other exploits were ever found.

Ye it is like he 12 himself

Remember the days we would mine iron for days... Then be sitting in varrock trying to sell it for the best price for hours. (pure essence, runes, raw fish, everything would have value) Damn good old days

@@Desperado070 you don't miss the mining and selling part. you miss being a kid and everything being fun and cool again

@@Gobble-mike-hawk So you wanna say motherlode mine is fun? or any other activity that gets you mining exp? no, they are not but if it could earn you enough to buy your next bond, everyone will be doing it. Bots have always existed but nowadays they got unlimited bots just on hired servers, back in the day they wer limited by the number of computers they could fit in a room so compared to today we had way less... What are you doing right now to get a bond? a boring grinding activity, no matter how much gp it gets you per hour, if you would get 10m a hour for picking flax you would also pick flax or mine iron in varrock. (And no flax would never get you 10m a hour but it is an example, the real form would come down to the same point. Why a bond is 10m today is because of bots. The more money you put into a system the less money is worth or in other words *inflation*) It is the design of a game to get you hooked and playing as long as possible, osrs had that all in place but nowadays we are playing rehashed, reskinned versions of rs3 with pay to win in place but just hidden behind a blanket

@@Gobble-mike-hawk Exactly

@@Gobble-mike-hawk stop assuming, simple items having value has nothing to do with me wanting to be a kid, I'm not like you.

Quite enjoyed listening, although I will say Mat K's takes on bots were pretty terrible lol

​@@andrewv2782 I believe Mat is responsible for the Corporeal beast AFK feature that Mod reach was fired for and that reach agreed to take the hit to preserve Mat's standing within the company and also so that Mat could ensure none of the other exploits were ever found.

Those of us who saw this coming realized early that G.E was going to kill the legitimacy of the economy & supported ironman mode was the only way you could have your achievements acknowledged and respected by other players who weren't already your friends.

I have a nearly maxed UIM I've been chipping away at for 8 years that's not impacted by the main economy and even I am finding the game is beginning to disgust me. When the economy changes the way players behave changes and simply teleporting to the G.E to get around the map exposes me to a full chat box of RWT services so morbid I immediately start thinking about other games. Currently the only thing I've logged in for in the past month was to test Scurrius on my Varrock Sewers meme UIM and even though it is the most exciting update to ever happen for me as it relates to any of my accounts after a handful of kills I was like "This loot is too good, this exp is too good, it feels like I'm cheating, this boss is really fucken bad for the game" For so many years I've been telling myself "just put in a session here or there and you'll be proud to max an ultimate" Now I'm not even sure if I can continue to be a proud runescape player. And that is no joke, I had to fight against a lot of IRL social judgement in 2013-2014 for admitting that I enjoyed the game. I am autistic and a functional runescape addict so when people like myself are going "ayo, what's the fucken point anymore?" I'd say things aren't in great shape.

​@@Jasmine69420 lol not really. Autistic addicts always yell and scream the loudest about everything bothering them, while us casual andys are having a blast and growing in numbers. Sorry but thats the real truth and the numbers support it. Seen about 15 of your replies in this thread. I get your points but really, your clearly just burnt out and unhappy with the direction on some changes, whereas most are not. The silent majority is a real thing. 8+ year addicts are really at the bottom of the list for what jagex cares about. And you said it yourself, possibly in one of your other 15 comments. Everything you do ingame is barely affected by bots as an uim, and you're still making quitting threats about the issue. Bots suck and i dont necessarily agree with the points made in the interview, but i dont think jagex will ever be able to please the top 0.1%, nor should they in my opinion.

Why you think he got fired, he got a little bit to far up hes wife @rs

the pod

Shit game 😊

I've clocked in thousands of LMS games and seen many iterations of bots. I must say there's really no winning here, the old terminator bots put up a fight but many of them could just be exploited by 1-ticking, the afk bots felt like I was doing pvm. And you're right, winning when you'd see first actual player(who would likely be garbage, because bots allowed bad players to cruise to the end) in the semifinals did feel pretty mediocre

I believe Mat is responsible for the Corporeal beast AFK feature that Mod reach was fired for and that reach agreed to take the hit to preserve Mat's standing within the company and also so that Mat could ensure none of the other exploits were ever found. I think he wants to move in any direction that makes him more money.

Yes because RS3 is what the original runescape has become and OSRS is a backup version of the game from right before the Godwars update in 2007 that they used as the base for Old School Runescape. It wasn't originally supposed to have updates and even a lot of us returning to the game intent on playing long term were not sure if the servers would be live for more than a year.

The man kept MTX out of the game, that alone makes him a hero

If there are lot of bots doing endgame content, that should mean high level gear prices going down since more of them will be entering the economy. I don't know where you got the idea that "only the top level content is good enough gp/hr" you can earn gp in this game in many ways and you definitely don't need BIS to do the most difficult PvM content, should you find the need to do them

I hate the fact how deeply a client that holds your hand everywhere has ingrained in the community

well he realizes clicking a button that can remove every bot has probelms, even problems coming from the playerbase.

You say "they", probably referring to Jagex. Matt no longer works for Jagex.

@@nullpip irrelevant. Considering his former position it is the equivalent of insider information.

@@napoleonbonaparte7692 irrelevant. You don't work for Jagex, nor have you ever worked for Jagex. So you can't comment.

@@nullpip the stupidest position of this generation. Actually I can comment and have an opinion on anything I damn well please. Kick rocks.

just got done watching his quest cape series. Would like that.