Were Climbing Boots a Jagex conspiracy?
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Published 2022-08-19
But in the hours after the update, news started to spread that a controversial merchanting clan had received news of the update the days prior - and profited heavily.
Did Jagex really leak the price spike ahead of time?
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All Comments (21)
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I have to say, this was one of those things I always assumed was a Jagex inside job, it was just one of those common knowledge things for me. But this makes one of my favourite stories from Runescape history, and flips it on its head. So cool!
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I remember smokin mils, probably before they became big. I was in their FC while we pumped up dragon darts for like two weeks. The day before we were scheduled to sell, however, I dumped all of mine because I wasn't going to be the idiot holding the bags. This caused a sell off at 3am with all the other people in the FC and the head mods of the chat were the ones that woke up holding the bags lmfao. Easiest 20M I made in my life.
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As always, an exceptional video. This is, I admit, far after I'd stopped playing (was always more of a classic player, but have an on-again off-again relationship with oldschool), but it is the type of thing you still see people murmur about every now and again. At this point, you've destroyed lots of misinformation, from all eras of the game. It's been really cool to see just how much your content has evolved.
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Why not take it the other direction? Make all climbing boots have no strength bonus, release the new rock climbing boots? That causes people to lose money sure, but the value shift would do far less damage. Going from 200 gp to zero is much less than going from 200 to 75,000.
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The rs community really hasn't changed in a decade
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your channel is insane man, the amount of knowledge with things I had no clue about but only wondered as a young runescape noob.
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i gotta say, your channel is miles above and beyond any other RS channel (to be fair any channel) the amount of time and effort you throw into these videos are insane and it truly shows. great job man, and i’m happy i got to see you grow. keep the awesome videos coming
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honestly, the idea that they converted climbing boots to rock-climbing boots just sounds like one hell of a lapse in judgement. would have probably been seen as a waste of an update and only added for the sake of ulterior motives, like Dealaga (mostly to deal w/Dragon Scimitar merchant clans) and Butterchurns (probably anchored most of the cheese/butter from culinaromancer chest).
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Almost spit out my coffee at 03:09. S-tier quality as always!
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Absolutely love the passive aggression in these videos :D The production quality is always top tier. Solid job again Will, almost at the big 100k now! <3
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I 100% benefited. I had a maxed 1 defense pure back then and I had thousands of pk gear sets/loadouts. That included literally 5000 or so monks robes, black d hide chaps, mith gloves, etc….oh, and climbing boots ofc. I made a lot of money. Great memories.
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Your channel is quickly becoming one of my favourite rs channels. Keep up the great content!
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Logdotzip was having an affair with my father at the time, Mod Mark disapproved of this and therefore the ban was placed on him
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Man I love these videos, I don’t play anymore but this is probably my favorite rs content channel.
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logdotzip becoming a youtuber with over 4 million subs was the coolest part of the video... very well put together and informative video
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I think that the biggest mistake Jagex did here was mute Logz because by silencing him it makes the rumour of a cover up seem more real than it actually was. It seems a bit of an overreaction to things said outside of the game (as long as he wasn't being directly abusive to people in game or harassing mods off-line).
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Before I watch this: Jagex obviously would have talked among themselves with the price increase. I’m sure some employees capitalized on this with their personal accounts buying tons of climbing boots. Having the inside knowledge would be crazy! Great video btw!
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These videos got me back into osrs and make my work day so much faster. Thanks for some lit content.
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What a thrilling story, what a splendid presentation, what an absolute king of making RS videos (that I might have not known I needed) <3
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This is crazy. I've heard the climbing boots mentioned in the past, but hearing Logdotzip's name mentioned here made me lose it, I had no idea he used to make videos about runescape
