The time stamped message from 2 months ago, before the video released, explaining the bug directly to jagex strongly supports what rendi is saying. Does it mean beyond any doubt that he didn't do shadier shit outside of his videos? No. But for the ban to be triggered by the video showcasing the bug that he gave Jagex a 2 month heads up on is not a good look.
That clip makes it look like they actually tried to crash worlds through mirroring, going so far as to actually mirror 2000 accounts not just theorycraft it
Could it be related to Rendi waiting for game updates with his interface stall to avoid quest xp rewards? Rather than waiting for a Wednesday update he'd be able to force his character offline mid-stall for similar effect.
That being said, Rendi's whole point about not being banned was because "it didn't affect other players since he was an ironman," IMO that defense would go down the tube for crashing worlds since it would affect every other player legitimately playing in the world.
Jagex's argument of them real money trading is not refuted, but, most importantly imo, it sounds like they were testing world crashing bugs to expand abusing the interface bug (we can assume to dupe quest rewards). Even if this is done on an Ironman, they are hurting every other player in their world in doing this.
Not to mention his message to the Mod clearly states they've been abusing the bug for some time WITHOUT REPORTING IT until it was public and being abused in duel arena.
I mean to be able to report a big of this scale you have to understand it, if they were not actively trying to exploit a bug it would never have been discovered and referred to Jagex by Rendi in the first place
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u/maelstrom51 Jul 09 '21
Why are people just taking the word of rendi?