The wealthiest player in Old School Runescape, with more than 1 trillion (yes, trillion) gold, has been banned
Old School Runescape player and streamer BTCs, known as the wealthiest player in the game with more than one trillion gold to his name, has been permanently banned from Runescape over allegations of real-world trading—that is, trading items in the game for anything outside of it, typically real money. It's a stunningly expensive ban: Even though OSRS gold has no official real-world value according to the terms of service (because you're not allowed to trade it for real money), the price of that much gold on grey-market gold selling sites would be in excess of $160,000.
BTCs denied doing anything against the rules in a video posted on October 7, saying that his ascent to the one trillion gold mark—which he hit in September—was «heavily monitored» by moderators and had resulted in no bans until now. «Clearly I wasn't selling any gold on the way to one trill,» he said in the video. «They mentioned these [real-world trading] instances are recent, implying that I began selling literal bits of it then, after one trill… Clearly I was not getting banned all the way up there, meaning I didn't sell any gold. But now I'm selling, at one trill?»
BTCs said in his video that he was able to get a ban issued earlier this year overturned, but that seems less likely to happen in this case. In a message BTCs shared in his video, Old School Runescape lead community manager Ayiza told him that evidence in the matter «has been thoroughly reviews by our anti-cheating team to be correct and the ban won't be overturned.»
«There are very clear (and recent) instances of RWT occurring on our end,» Ayiza said in a follow-up message. «This wasn't an overnight decision, and I'm confident the ACT have made the correct call with the evidence they have
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