I don't know. I mean, Jagex *clearly knew* what happened. They obviously tried to mitigate the damage by banning the respective players. But to not even try to remedy the damage and simply giving back her items as a show of gratitude that she's been playing their own game... which is the least of all to do, just goes to show that Jagex didn't really ever consider players playing their game a high priority. That feels like they couldn't give two cents about her despite the importance of her character. Maybe it was foreshadowing the current state of the game.
This is all "alleged" so take it with several heaps of salt.... 1. Jagex didn't restore anything to Chessy018 because they assumed she would just RMT them, out of fear that somebody would just hack her again. 2. Entire reason the hack was possible is that they had someone from 3rd party "rent a worker" -agency handle customer support. He was given insufficient onboarding and gave hackers access to Chessy018 account on his first day at the job. When hack was discovered, Jagex had security escort him out of the office. This would explain why multiple recovery attempts failed as supposed, but final one (without any new information, allegedly) went through.
Crazy stuff happened back in 2010-11. Kind of a sad story, then I remember how much her merchanting clan made me lose back in the day, so not as sad as it could be.
i used to join merch clans back in the day but i would buy when the price would dump lol so i picked it up when the item crashed and then made profit when it recovered lol turned 20m to 70m back in the day lol
For anyone wondering, during that time her 170b bank RSGP was worth about 2$/m so you could easily sell it in bulk for 0.8-1$/m. So yes it was about ~170,000$. I know I’m not the only one who bought some gold as a kid lol. (yes, with moms credit card😂)
@@devonhazelton9842 Even with 2FA turned on, I still get account recovery emails. But, that's one of the hazards of having accounts from before you had to register with an email address.
I was a noob back then, so I joined her clan to make money. Since I was a young kid i didnt know how it worked at the time, but it was a pyramid scheme. She and her close friends would buy up an item, then post the name of it as her channel name when they amassed a big enough stockpile. After that the clan would try to quickly buy up as much as this item as they could while Chessy and her friends would sell this item during the panic buying to make triple or 3x profit. They would then move onto new items and repeat this weekly, while the noobs in the chat, like me, who didn't know any better were left bag holding with the previous item crashing below the original price.
You use exactly the right soundtracks for the feeling they're supposed to (and do) bring across. This entire documentary is 10/10. With so many people talking about how nostalgic they are for RS as it used to be, I'm surprised you aren't getting more traction! Keep it up :)
Really glad you're noticing the music! I put literal hours into finding the best tunes to fit in to the right places in these videos. I agree entirely they play such a huge role into guiding you to how you should feel in these moments.
I remember Chessy018 well but never knew this story! Very well told, so happy someone’s documenting all of this history. So much forgotten nostalgia in general in your videos - I let out an audible gasp seeing “Fredmcgarry” in the hiscores!
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 I house lured with him pre 99. Back when if you kicked someone from your house in the middle of a dds spec at low hp it would kick them THEN register the hit outside the portal and kill em as a pvp death with full loot pile. Breaking the game at 99 on 6/6/06 was just icing on the cake.
Holy shit Will. You're seriously oudoing yourself with every video! Man, the characterization, the storytelling, the info... hell even the way you say subscribe is genius! I didn't know anything about chessy, but now I've shed an imaginary tear thinking about the pain, the frustration and impotence she must've felt when that happened... There sure are shit people in this world, who take advantage of such a bright, yet careless person... We really can't have nice things cause of them
I've been enjoying the videos for a while now but the "there's no option to start the game as the kid of someone who owns an emerald mine" line absolutely sent me, peak comedy, subscribed
I was in the middle of all this, I ended up quitting in 2007 and have vivid and fond memories of these house parties. Wow, the many memories. Thank you for releasing this for those who never knew about these days.
what a time to be alive. Glad I was part of most of the entire Runescape timeline. I don't have many achievements I'm proud of in life, and it may be a dumb one. But I truly am happy to say I was around for most of the RS timeline even until this present day. PS 92 is forever half of 99
You can literally buy items for like 20% under net price daily just by being patient. Otherwise, If you don't care about the rares market then you get to avoid all of that and won't deal with those types of merchers.
What she did for the community? Lmao she got what real life market monopoliIng capitalist scum deserve and had her hoard of wealth fucking yeeted into void.
She was such an awesome person honestly. I didn't know her personally but I went to many of her parties and chatted with her and she was so nice and down to earth.
After briefly doing some research, I managed to actually locate Chessy018. She's from the Philippines, runs a successful company (which has made her much more than what she lost in her 2011 hi-jacking), happily married, and get this....She has a daughter named Chelsy - presumably after her Chrissy alias. Very glad to know she's turned her once online fortune disaster into real life fortune and seemingly living an extremely happy and complete life.
Your stories take me back to memory lane, I enjoy every second of them! I never achieved big milestones in RuneScape during its prime, but this game has me coming back every now and then for at least 15 years.
Andy/Sly was kind of a clown. I remember after some months he posted on some forum trying to dissuade others from recovering accs because…. he found out it was illegal. No idea how you can do invest so much time into hacking accounts but lack the common sense to figure out it’s clearly illegal lol
the fact they sent 5 recoery attempts and at no time was she notified someone was sending in recovery requests is so stupid and negligent on jagex's part. they truly dont give a shit.
and nothings changed to this day.. had my account with 2fa enabled hijacked this month and bank emptied :/ pin can still be disabled in 3 days which is nice because i was on a 3 month break at the time :/ an email notifying me would have helped
@@FromSouthPark make a jagex account. idk why anyone would not have one. also if youre 2fa got bypass, its for sure something on your end. your email, your entire computer. you can also set your jagex account settings to send you a email everytime a new login happens. i have my settings so that only a app 2fa will work, not email, for my JA.
During the event, hijackers demoted everyone to non-kicking ranks, muted the chat, and blamed Win All Day, another prominent rich player/youtuber (staker). sweetfeet63 (also a rank in merchmasters) posted a video with screenshots of the chat as it happened, however I can't seem to find that anymore.
@@Djme2 Hackers literally muted chat and last message was "Win All Day was here" followed by the date. Can't believe there aren't findable screenshots of it.
i’ve never played runescape before, i was too young when it was in its heyday- but i have been BINGEING your videos! they are insanely well done and do an amazing job painting a picture of the atmosphere at the time!
I've talked with Chessy018 extensively in-game and learned a lot from her. Very interesting character from the 2006-ish era of online gaming. People forget how popular she once was. She was like a female Zezima to some people but more so for her wealth than massive XP gains.
You talked with her back in the day I'd assume right? Cuz the person who has her name now is just a fan who grabbed the name when Jagex released the name
@@denzelmolina5945 Judging by the wording I would imagine so. Its known that she quit rs when Jagex refused to return any of her items or wealth to her, as is their policy with everyone. Would not be surprised that someone took up her RSN after that.. I once ran into the person who took Uloveme in rs3 some years ago, that was a trip.
Damn man. My WoW account was hacked while I was at work in the mid 2000s, and I was devastated even though I was able to get some of it recovered. I couldn't imagine a loss of that magnitude, even in a game.
My Dad, Brother and I all played runescape around this time, sharing one PC. One time while playing I noticed my Dad's account online, I knew he was being hijacked as there was no other way he could access it since I was on the PC. I also noticed he was on a bounty hunter World. Later when he got his acc back, he was outside BH with all of his items gone. He made it all back pretty quickly though, and we don't know if the perpetrator ever got any consequences
Love your videos man, runescape is blessed with a story teller such as you. I know alot about runescape and learning something new is very refreshing and entertaining. Great videos.
Funny thing is had she asked for donations she probably would have gotten billions to start over with. But I heard she's doing well IRL. Real Estate or something.
Man. I remember getting home from school and immediately hopping on world 31 just to sit in her house and do literally nothing. Was some of the most fun I had on RS though. Didn't know this ever happened to her, and it really sucks knowing why her advertising outside the portal in Remington just kinda stopped.
People dont understand how easy it was to merch back in the day and how much gold you'd net. I literally got a santa in less than a week from doing it back in 2007. I merched smithing supplies back in the day. Coal being my best money maker besides fletching since so much coal was used in smithing.
Woah, I remember buying lobsters from Chessy waaaayyy back in the day. I had no idea she was such a popular name since I was never one to watch hiscores!
I used to hang out in Chessys clan. My first ever clan. I met two players in that cc that nearly 15 years later I’m still best friends with. One of those friends I traveled across the country to attend his wedding 2 months ago.
I just got hacked twice. Both back in July 2020 and November 2021 (phishing site and trust trade, respectively). Total days lost as a result is 730 days (2 years of progress). This resulted a devastating impact on my economy.
Oh how I remember the era of construction being released. I sold a cracker at the time to be able to try rush to be first for 99con......but living in aus it dropped at a terrible time....I fell asleep in my grind, woke up and was all over wouldnt even be in top 10. Took years for me to get the last 2 levels, though my POH did turn into my clans 'citadel' had a few parties in there too. Now its just a glorified repair bench/teleport room.
Am i the only one who finds this ironic justice? Chessy's ego was out of control and she needed to take a fall to break her out of it. She is a better person for it... Probably but probably not.
Construction played a big role in me quitting in 2007. I dumped 80% of my money into it. Multiple mils and I got lvl 82 construction. Then around when hunter came out I lost hella money on a Sara god sword. Quit right there. Started again about a month ago,osrs. I'm lvl 68 : )
Man i remember bumping into the Merchmasters players, and then finally running into Chessy, and ahh those House Parties, she broke the Mould of being one of the Richest around, and still being a really Nice and Cool person to talk to. Definitely a Mt. Rushmore Rs Player.
Wow the quality of your video was insane. If I ever end up telling my story of the start of OSRS and I think becoming the richest person for a month, I'd definitely let you be the one to tell it. Great video.
@@rswillmissit Every detail you put time into, the cut scenes were memorable. I'm just finishing school again and will be quite busy for a couple more months. Would you like some screen shots to get the ball rolling?
I should add that I was the richest person I think through skill. Not staking, botting, rule breaking. There were many others richer than me that acquired it either through luck or rule breaking.
Jagex security was very weak at this time. I lost two of my accounts, no keylogging, or dodgy site visiting, none of the passes had been typed anywhere for years. I wasn't public about any of my information. All they knew was the day they were made. That was enough for some members of the recovery team, and thanks to the top 2000 list, everyone could guess when. I got one back, thieves got it back, repeated 3 times. Then I managed to talk to someone direct who blocked them. Trying to brute force first 2000 accounts was considered ok by quite a lot of jerks.
Yeah some of my old RS friends had a method to gaining early accounts. Skill names, 1 letter names, rares for days. They made thousands irl when they sold years later.
6:37 that price timeline seems off I wish there was a forum backup from then. I distinctly remember blue phats being 13M in faldor park world 1 while I was selling my coal August 2004, reds where always about half of blues. 1k coal sold at 150 ea and bought my first santa for 150k. I had a Red phat I bought for 35M and traded for a D Chain at roughly the time Barrows released (May 2005), D chain tanked in value because of barrows and took my bank value with it which is why I remember.
when I was a young kid I fell for the "if you type ur password the game blocks it" scam, stupid ik. I thought nothing of it and logged off and tried logging in like 15 minutes later to find out my account was already logged in and continuously kept trying to log in only to be greated by the same message. After about an hour or two I was finally able to log in and found that the hackers actually put new stuff on my account (I had steel at the time but could wear adamant but could never afford an upgrade) these nice hackers actually gave me a full set of adamant and I lost nothing. Was pretty cool ngl
I remember selling my santa hat to her for 18mil and a month later santa hats went up to 24mil and upwards. And sold few whips to her too. She was a really good mercher
Holy moly..I remember this player. I used to do a lot of marching of Barrows/whips/trimmed armor around Fally Park/Varrock west bank. While GE made getting items easy, I definitely miss the days of actually understanding the market
Igjen, Will.. Dette var en helt sykt informativ, fengende og interesang historie! Er rart å tenke på at lille Runescape fra 123spill skulle bety så mye for så mange! Og alle historiene som finnes.. Takk for at du deler dem! :) -Haugerud
I had about 120m gp in my bank, and then the next day, when I signed into my account, it was all gone, but nothing else was gone, just my gp. I tried to contact Jagex about it but could never get in touch with them. Just an automatic message. I also had a PIN set. But after that happened, I gave up on osrs and started playing rs3, and I like it better for some reason.
I was able to talk to chessy018 back in those days. She's from the philippines. she was only a highschool student back then. im sure she didn't really had that much time to reach 99 construction first due to school activities but she was ready. i do remember reminding her if there are any classes due to typhoons. I don't blame chessy for being too open as this was the start of an era of social medias. i wasn't able to keep in touch with her as i was on and off person on runescape.
You're absolutely right. She is from the Philippines and was very young at the time of her stardom. Now, she is still very successful except in the real world.
My account was hacked once. I had worked for many months towards getting 2M and bought my first Dragon weapon, a 2h Dragon Sword. It was amazing, i was so happy and was killing stuff so fast and easily, then i got hacked and i quit the game for like 2 years. Twas the greatest injustice i had ever lived through. I came back obviously and kept playing, now 2m is pocket change.
Wow I was actually thinking about her the other day, but couldn’t remember her name! I used to merch non-stop in W2 Fally Garden and would talk to her from time to time. I remember her flipping a large quantity of dragon bones back around early 06. I miss that version of the game and talking to the other merchanters :)
I was HUGE into merching dragon bones before GE. I was making millions (back when 1mil was a lot of money) The GE killed everything when it now had a set 'official' number on what the item was worth. Items were hard to come by before the GE which gave a lot of play with buying/selling them.
I don't understand why there were not measures in place that would see 5 incorrect recovery attempts and not flag the account based off that? Hopefully they've got something like that in place now.
future reference, if you use the runelite plugin for item overlay for your character. Just wear a bronze platebody underneath and your shoulders wont be showing.
I can't fault Jagex one bit for not asking someone to/taking someone up on their offer of "helping tighten their ingame account security" when they not only did this one, but also frequent such a site decimated to pulling shady antics. Seems like a recipe for disaster waiting to happen. On an unrelated note - I have to at this point wonder how many cyber criminals actually started out by messing around on RuneScape pilfering accounts with the intent to RWT?
@@quarreneverett4767 While it may, or may not apply to this case: I tend to notice Jagex is really reluctant to refund or return items in general. Which to me smells like an ancient policy from the days when they had no proper backend logs to determine what was going on, and password/account sharing - trust trading - etc was incredibly common. Now that they have modern systems where everything we do in game is basically logged and can be studied in the data (should one simply know how to do so), I see no real reason they cannot start actually returning items and coin in cases where it's completely clear as day you had a completely innocent party get hit by a malicious actor. Cause they seem to still by proxy of this ancient policy partially treat being hit by a malicious actor as the fault of the victim, and while they are more than willing to investigate in order to dish out penalties, they seem to still not like the idea of returning items, or stolen gold. Unless it's something big like one of their own employees does dirty stuff. Which links up nicely to them lacking a proper customer support team for other issues than billing - though as I recall, they are in the process of forming one at last.
I got hacked once in 2006, luckily I had a bank pin and recovery questions so after 6 hours the hacker got booted off the account and never made it into my bank, and I was training hunter at the time so all they could do was steal my feathers from hunting lol
Jamflex should have returned her items and put more effort into the account bans for the hijackers. You'd think a company with such a successful game would make less and less mistakes, but they have only became more unstable. It's so amazing how often they mess up big
hmm, I was kind of feeling that way this morning, when they released an update, and within a few hours, there was another update, and from what I can tell, OSRS servers were offline for about 90 minutes.
10:05 ahh yes! I remember chessy telling me everytime to hit that like & Sub button on your channel. that advice was defiantly the best! Great video will! and i spotted my table! haha (i think, lol)
During the time of her hi-jacking, she was already a CEO/Founder of an online company (which now has amassed more than what she lost) -- She is extremely successful and likely has this game to thank because of it.
Reading all these comments of people saying they've also been hacked. 99% of people who get hacked don't get hacked via the recovery method it's usually from website data leaks and since 90% of people use the same password on every site it makes it that much easier. Rule #1 of the internet don't use the same password on every site.
I was hacked about 3 years ago, luckily I spread my wealth out and was able to bounce back. Now I keep my examine as private and use cosmetic overrides so nobody knows what gear I’m using
Rumour has it that even the GE clerks worked for her at one point in time
I don't know. I mean, Jagex *clearly knew* what happened. They obviously tried to mitigate the damage by banning the respective players. But to not even try to remedy the damage and simply giving back her items as a show of gratitude that she's been playing their own game... which is the least of all to do, just goes to show that Jagex didn't really ever consider players playing their game a high priority. That feels like they couldn't give two cents about her despite the importance of her character. Maybe it was foreshadowing the current state of the game.
This is all "alleged" so take it with several heaps of salt....
1. Jagex didn't restore anything to Chessy018 because they assumed she would just RMT them, out of fear that somebody would just hack her again.
2. Entire reason the hack was possible is that they had someone from 3rd party "rent a worker" -agency handle customer support. He was given insufficient onboarding and gave hackers access to Chessy018 account on his first day at the job. When hack was discovered, Jagex had security escort him out of the office. This would explain why multiple recovery attempts failed as supposed, but final one (without any new information, allegedly) went through.
You really expect them to give a character that they don't if was in on it $130,000 worth of coins and items back? Thats asinine
Crazy stuff happened back in 2010-11. Kind of a sad story, then I remember how much her merchanting clan made me lose back in the day, so not as sad as it could be.
I didn't have much back then but chessy definitely made me gold i didn't lose more than i made
I took part of the recovery scene. Made quite a bit and knew Haci, Friday, Sly, and many more.
i used to join merch clans back in the day but i would buy when the price would dump lol so i picked it up when the item crashed and then made profit when it recovered lol turned 20m to 70m back in the day lol
She was running a pyramid scheme whilst pump and dumping. Hard to feel bad for her.
For anyone wondering, during that time her 170b bank RSGP was worth about 2$/m so you could easily sell it in bulk for 0.8-1$/m. So yes it was about ~170,000$.
I know I’m not the only one who bought some gold as a kid lol. (yes, with moms credit card😂)
I tried to buy gold once as a kid and got banned. It was only like 5m lol. Just wanted to look cool and bought an ahrims set.. banned the next day rip
I use to sell gold when it was $10/m.. Ridiculous the prices today
@@jordanhalladay3854 how did you get all the gold?
@@jordanhalladay3854 Not that it’s ridiculous, just much more methods to make gp.
Was my dads credit hard and it was hard to talk like an adult when the Chinese people called me to verify lol
You are the RuneScape historian. Keep the content coming it's always so interesting
you know theres an actual channel called the runescape historian
Bruh! He is really good though ngl.
worst part is, the recovery method is the same today as it was when she lost her account, and the methods to jack accounts once more is the same.
2FA wasnt around then.
@@aldaog9107 it gets ignored today, the person recovering the account can turn it off and Jagex doesn't notify you
@@cheekyjebus5559 yeah but that’s why you get 2fa on your email too. No access to email, no access to disable the account 2fa.
@@devonhazelton9842 Even with 2FA turned on, I still get account recovery emails. But, that's one of the hazards of having accounts from before you had to register with an email address.
@@devonhazelton9842 they don't' need access to your email, the automated recovery ignores your email entirely.
This made me sad... I really feel bad for her. All that hard work and dedication just to be stolen.
stole from others to make it though. karma all around.
She ran a pyramid scheme. There wasn't very much hard work. Least not post construction release.
I was a noob back then, so I joined her clan to make money. Since I was a young kid i didnt know how it worked at the time, but it was a pyramid scheme. She and her close friends would buy up an item, then post the name of it as her channel name when they amassed a big enough stockpile. After that the clan would try to quickly buy up as much as this item as they could while Chessy and her friends would sell this item during the panic buying to make triple or 3x profit. They would then move onto new items and repeat this weekly, while the noobs in the chat, like me, who didn't know any better were left bag holding with the previous item crashing below the original price.
@@HereNikoIs this is... enlightening. I wonder why he didn't bring up the pyramid scheme in the video. Thanks for your insight
@@BryonComprehension Because its sort of common sense if u understand how supply and demand works
You use exactly the right soundtracks for the feeling they're supposed to (and do) bring across. This entire documentary is 10/10. With so many people talking about how nostalgic they are for RS as it used to be, I'm surprised you aren't getting more traction! Keep it up :)
Really glad you're noticing the music! I put literal hours into finding the best tunes to fit in to the right places in these videos. I agree entirely they play such a huge role into guiding you to how you should feel in these moments.
I remember Chessy018 well but never knew this story! Very well told, so happy someone’s documenting all of this history. So much forgotten nostalgia in general in your videos - I let out an audible gasp seeing “Fredmcgarry” in the hiscores!
Fred, and N0valyfe stood out to me. I went to N0valyfe's big party, celebrating maxed levels are his retirement from the game.
The "where nothing exciting in particular happens" after cursed yous 99 mention had me DYING
I didn't even catch that and I actually played during that time and before it.
I was pretty young and don't really remember it though.
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 I house lured with him pre 99. Back when if you kicked someone from your house in the middle of a dds spec at low hp it would kick them THEN register the hit outside the portal and kill em as a pvp death with full loot pile. Breaking the game at 99 on 6/6/06 was just icing on the cake.
this video deserves to be a Netflix documentary. Very well made
Holy shit Will. You're seriously oudoing yourself with every video! Man, the characterization, the storytelling, the info... hell even the way you say subscribe is genius! I didn't know anything about chessy, but now I've shed an imaginary tear thinking about the pain, the frustration and impotence she must've felt when that happened... There sure are shit people in this world, who take advantage of such a bright, yet careless person... We really can't have nice things cause of them
Thank you so much!
Beautifully said
I've been enjoying the videos for a while now but the "there's no option to start the game as the kid of someone who owns an emerald mine" line absolutely sent me, peak comedy, subscribed
I was in the middle of all this, I ended up quitting in 2007 and have vivid and fond memories of these house parties. Wow, the many memories. Thank you for releasing this for those who never knew about these days.
what a time to be alive. Glad I was part of most of the entire Runescape timeline. I don't have many achievements I'm proud of in life, and it may be a dumb one. But I truly am happy to say I was around for most of the RS timeline even until this present day.
PS
92 is forever half of 99
Man she must have been hurt and in pain after she got hacked. Anyways another great video mate
Very.... I remember when my account got banned for no reason with hundreds of millions on it, one week of just disbelief
Whoa, and did you know water is wet?
@@incongruous4 what if its frozen?
@@usas_debt7954 then it's ice
@@incongruous4 so is it wet?
The "merchants controlling the entire economy" really sums up rs3 more than ever
You can literally buy items for like 20% under net price daily just by being patient. Otherwise, If you don't care about the rares market then you get to avoid all of that and won't deal with those types of merchers.
It really sums up the entire western world
@@evergreen4034 Yeah because China is definitely western, and definitely doesn't have children slave labor.
@@evergreen4034 oy vey
@@N54MyBeloved shut it down
It’s crazy they knew exactly what the trades were and didn’t give her items back. Especially after hearing what she did for the community.
It's fucked
@@user-qv5sm5dw1v but in neopets can you take out 2 billion noted items at once?
What she did for the community? Lmao she got what real life market monopoliIng capitalist scum deserve and had her hoard of wealth fucking yeeted into void.
Manipulating item prices and scamming other lower ranked members of the merching clan. Poor chessy indeed. Karma is a bitch
She was such an awesome person honestly. I didn't know her personally but I went to many of her parties and chatted with her and she was so nice and down to earth.
Yea, okay simp
She was running a pyramid scheme taking advantage of kids whilst pump and dumping trying to fix and control the economy lol. She got karma.
💀💀
Constantly flexing questionably obtained wealth and boosting ego, so down to earth. Chessy the humble
That was hands down the smoothest subscriber call to action I’ve ever witnessed
After briefly doing some research, I managed to actually locate Chessy018. She's from the Philippines, runs a successful company (which has made her much more than what she lost in her 2011 hi-jacking), happily married, and get this....She has a daughter named Chelsy - presumably after her Chrissy alias.
Very glad to know she's turned her once online fortune disaster into real life fortune and seemingly living an extremely happy and complete life.
Wow that’s very cool to hear. Are you willing to share your source?
I'm proud you used my old Zezima 1 billion xp house party video from 2007 at 0:22. Good storytelling ⚔
Cool
Your stories take me back to memory lane, I enjoy every second of them! I never achieved big milestones in RuneScape during its prime, but this game has me coming back every now and then for at least 15 years.
Andy/Sly was kind of a clown. I remember after some months he posted on some forum trying to dissuade others from recovering accs because…. he found out it was illegal. No idea how you can do invest so much time into hacking accounts but lack the common sense to figure out it’s clearly illegal lol
the fact they sent 5 recoery attempts and at no time was she notified someone was sending in recovery requests is so stupid and negligent on jagex's part. they truly dont give a shit.
and nothings changed to this day.. had my account with 2fa enabled hijacked this month and bank emptied :/ pin can still be disabled in 3 days which is nice because i was on a 3 month break at the time :/ an email notifying me would have helped
@@FromSouthPark make a jagex account. idk why anyone would not have one. also if youre 2fa got bypass, its for sure something on your end. your email, your entire computer. you can also set your jagex account settings to send you a email everytime a new login happens. i have my settings so that only a app 2fa will work, not email, for my JA.
During the event, hijackers demoted everyone to non-kicking ranks, muted the chat, and blamed Win All Day, another prominent rich player/youtuber (staker).
sweetfeet63 (also a rank in merchmasters) posted a video with screenshots of the chat as it happened, however I can't seem to find that anymore.
win all day, havent heard that name in forever lol
@@Djme2 Hackers literally muted chat and last message was "Win All Day was here" followed by the date. Can't believe there aren't findable screenshots of it.
RSwillmissit back at it again, a killer intro going into a great documentary. Love watching your videos!
i’ve never played runescape before, i was too young when it was in its heyday- but i have been BINGEING your videos! they are insanely well done and do an amazing job painting a picture of the atmosphere at the time!
I've talked with Chessy018 extensively in-game and learned a lot from her. Very interesting character from the 2006-ish era of online gaming. People forget how popular she once was. She was like a female Zezima to some people but more so for her wealth than massive XP gains.
You talked with her back in the day I'd assume right? Cuz the person who has her name now is just a fan who grabbed the name when Jagex released the name
@@denzelmolina5945 Judging by the wording I would imagine so. Its known that she quit rs when Jagex refused to return any of her items or wealth to her, as is their policy with everyone.
Would not be surprised that someone took up her RSN after that.. I once ran into the person who took Uloveme in rs3 some years ago, that was a trip.
You're such a great storyteller
Damn man. My WoW account was hacked while I was at work in the mid 2000s, and I was devastated even though I was able to get some of it recovered. I couldn't imagine a loss of that magnitude, even in a game.
Lol that Elon diss didn't go unnoticed
It would be funny to leak info that would let someone hack into my account, only for the hacker to realize I have nothing of value, lol.
My Dad, Brother and I all played runescape around this time, sharing one PC. One time while playing I noticed my Dad's account online, I knew he was being hijacked as there was no other way he could access it since I was on the PC. I also noticed he was on a bounty hunter World. Later when he got his acc back, he was outside BH with all of his items gone. He made it all back pretty quickly though, and we don't know if the perpetrator ever got any consequences
Wow that stack of Santas alone is worth 4T today
Love your videos man, runescape is blessed with a story teller such as you. I know alot about runescape and learning something new is very refreshing and entertaining. Great videos.
Funny thing is had she asked for donations she probably would have gotten billions to start over with. But I heard she's doing well IRL. Real Estate or something.
That’s true. Where did you hear that though? I couldn’t find any information on the aftermath.
@@Drackias Someone did a documentary or something. I can't remember.
Before the grand exchange was a wild time filled with text everywhere LOL.
Another great vid. Thanks, man. God, what fun time we had back in 06!
Amazing video as always missit!
Ps: the beginning gave me flashbacks of n0valtyfes house party when he hit #1 lol, good times.
I was there, that was a blast, almost a Who's Who of RS2, Plus most of the P Mods and several J Mods showed up.
GE is nice, but i miss player owned shops and bank sales so badly
I miss buying stacks of unided herbs.
Man. I remember getting home from school and immediately hopping on world 31 just to sit in her house and do literally nothing. Was some of the most fun I had on RS though.
Didn't know this ever happened to her, and it really sucks knowing why her advertising outside the portal in Remington just kinda stopped.
I remember seeing her alot in Stealing Creations before she was hacked
People dont understand how easy it was to merch back in the day and how much gold you'd net. I literally got a santa in less than a week from doing it back in 2007. I merched smithing supplies back in the day. Coal being my best money maker besides fletching since so much coal was used in smithing.
Woah, I remember buying lobsters from Chessy waaaayyy back in the day. I had no idea she was such a popular name since I was never one to watch hiscores!
This broke my heart. I hope she's doing well.
Don't be too sad. She was pretty scummy and most her wealth was made via scamming others with pyramid scheme style merching clans.
I used to hang out in Chessys clan. My first ever clan. I met two players in that cc that nearly 15 years later I’m still best friends with. One of those friends I traveled across the country to attend his wedding 2 months ago.
Thats insane fair play to you! Any info about chessy ??
I'd watch this guy narrate shop runs, your videos are amazing.
I just got hacked twice. Both back in July 2020 and November 2021 (phishing site and trust trade, respectively).
Total days lost as a result is 730 days (2 years of progress).
This resulted a devastating impact on my economy.
Oh how I remember the era of construction being released. I sold a cracker at the time to be able to try rush to be first for 99con......but living in aus it dropped at a terrible time....I fell asleep in my grind, woke up and was all over wouldnt even be in top 10. Took years for me to get the last 2 levels, though my POH did turn into my clans 'citadel' had a few parties in there too. Now its just a glorified repair bench/teleport room.
Am i the only one who finds this ironic justice? Chessy's ego was out of control and she needed to take a fall to break her out of it. She is a better person for it... Probably but probably not.
Construction played a big role in me quitting in 2007. I dumped 80% of my money into it. Multiple mils and I got lvl 82 construction. Then around when hunter came out I lost hella money on a Sara god sword. Quit right there. Started again about a month ago,osrs. I'm lvl 68 : )
Welcome back! ;0)
Man i remember bumping into the Merchmasters players, and then finally running into Chessy, and ahh those House Parties, she broke the Mould of being one of the Richest around, and still being a really Nice and Cool person to talk to. Definitely a Mt. Rushmore Rs Player.
Wow the quality of your video was insane. If I ever end up telling my story of the start of OSRS and I think becoming the richest person for a month, I'd definitely let you be the one to tell it. Great video.
Really glad you enjoyed it! I'd love to tell your story some day. :')
@@rswillmissit Every detail you put time into, the cut scenes were memorable.
I'm just finishing school again and will be quite busy for a couple more months. Would you like some screen shots to get the ball rolling?
I should add that I was the richest person I think through skill. Not staking, botting, rule breaking. There were many others richer than me that acquired it either through luck or rule breaking.
@@demilishing And I swear in 1947 I was the richest goblin girl by selling bananas at karamja for 30gp a crate!
@@princesslovelorn7832 Only difference is I have the proof ;) Don't be jealous, it isn't good for your mental wellbeing!
Why don't they send you an email for unsuccessful account recovery? Or at least for your bank pin being deleted ...
Jagex security was very weak at this time. I lost two of my accounts, no keylogging, or dodgy site visiting, none of the passes had been typed anywhere for years. I wasn't public about any of my information. All they knew was the day they were made. That was enough for some members of the recovery team, and thanks to the top 2000 list, everyone could guess when. I got one back, thieves got it back, repeated 3 times. Then I managed to talk to someone direct who blocked them. Trying to brute force first 2000 accounts was considered ok by quite a lot of jerks.
Yeah some of my old RS friends had a method to gaining early accounts. Skill names, 1 letter names, rares for days. They made thousands irl when they sold years later.
6:37 that price timeline seems off I wish there was a forum backup from then. I distinctly remember blue phats being 13M in faldor park world 1 while I was selling my coal August 2004, reds where always about half of blues. 1k coal sold at 150 ea and bought my first santa for 150k.
I had a Red phat I bought for 35M and traded for a D Chain at roughly the time Barrows released (May 2005), D chain tanked in value because of barrows and took my bank value with it which is why I remember.
I believe you are correct about the price in 2004, as I remember being offered a Blue Party Hat for 12M, around that time.
I hate how they just ban people who have no idea whats going on and just traded with a random
when I was a young kid I fell for the "if you type ur password the game blocks it" scam, stupid ik. I thought nothing of it and logged off and tried logging in like 15 minutes later to find out my account was already logged in and continuously kept trying to log in only to be greated by the same message. After about an hour or two I was finally able to log in and found that the hackers actually put new stuff on my account (I had steel at the time but could wear adamant but could never afford an upgrade) these nice hackers actually gave me a full set of adamant and I lost nothing. Was pretty cool ngl
Awesome
I remember selling my santa hat to her for 18mil and a month later santa hats went up to 24mil and upwards. And sold few whips to her too. She was a really good mercher
"Collecting cowhides"
>PTSD triggered
the quality of production on your videos is next level
Holy moly..I remember this player. I used to do a lot of marching of Barrows/whips/trimmed armor around Fally Park/Varrock west bank. While GE made getting items easy, I definitely miss the days of actually understanding the market
Igjen, Will.. Dette var en helt sykt informativ, fengende og interesang historie! Er rart å tenke på at lille Runescape fra 123spill skulle bety så mye for så mange! Og alle historiene som finnes.. Takk for at du deler dem! :)
-Haugerud
I swear, you could have an entire 16 week university course about Runescape history.
It's sad I remember being apart of this... i remember being in that community for merching AND iirc gambling.
the crazy part is, account security is still just as bad
I had about 120m gp in my bank, and then the next day, when I signed into my account, it was all gone, but nothing else was gone, just my gp. I tried to contact Jagex about it but could never get in touch with them. Just an automatic message. I also had a PIN set. But after that happened, I gave up on osrs and started playing rs3, and I like it better for some reason.
“Where nothing significant happened” oh god lmao
That subtle Elon growing up rich joke was nice
“You weren’t getting your crazy xp rates, these guys were throwing ragers!”
- Funny Quest Guy
I was able to talk to chessy018 back in those days. She's from the philippines. she was only a highschool student back then. im sure she didn't really had that much time to reach 99 construction first due to school activities but she was ready. i do remember reminding her if there are any classes due to typhoons.
I don't blame chessy for being too open as this was the start of an era of social medias.
i wasn't able to keep in touch with her as i was on and off person on runescape.
You're absolutely right. She is from the Philippines and was very young at the time of her stardom. Now, she is still very successful except in the real world.
@@doorsman7732 ohhh wow that's good to hear! does she still play from time to time?
You deserve more views and likes my friend. Thanks for the uploads they are always entertaining to watch before starting work.
Chessy, wherever you are, I hope you are doing well.
My account was hacked once. I had worked for many months towards getting 2M and bought my first Dragon weapon, a 2h Dragon Sword. It was amazing, i was so happy and was killing stuff so fast and easily, then i got hacked and i quit the game for like 2 years. Twas the greatest injustice i had ever lived through. I came back obviously and kept playing, now 2m is pocket change.
Wow I was actually thinking about her the other day, but couldn’t remember her name! I used to merch non-stop in W2 Fally Garden and would talk to her from time to time.
I remember her flipping a large quantity of dragon bones back around early 06.
I miss that version of the game and talking to the other merchanters :)
I was HUGE into merching dragon bones before GE. I was making millions (back when 1mil was a lot of money) The GE killed everything when it now had a set 'official' number on what the item was worth. Items were hard to come by before the GE which gave a lot of play with buying/selling them.
They should have a stat displaying how much you're house is worth.
And that's why I'm always broke af
I don't understand why there were not measures in place that would see 5 incorrect recovery attempts and not flag the account based off that?
Hopefully they've got something like that in place now.
This is the reason I forced myself to grind harder on ED1 solo one cycles to 100k+ or more ancient scales, the grind is indefinite.
future reference, if you use the runelite plugin for item overlay for your character. Just wear a bronze platebody underneath and your shoulders wont be showing.
The more you know!
@@rswillmissit the fashionscape plugin is much better than transmog plugin. it will not have any graphical glitches
no not the pizza delivery guy!!!! lmao
I can't fault Jagex one bit for not asking someone to/taking someone up on their offer of "helping tighten their ingame account security" when they not only did this one, but also frequent such a site decimated to pulling shady antics. Seems like a recipe for disaster waiting to happen. On an unrelated note - I have to at this point wonder how many cyber criminals actually started out by messing around on RuneScape pilfering accounts with the intent to RWT?
Still sucks she was never refunded the money unlike the people hacked after
@@quarreneverett4767 While it may, or may not apply to this case: I tend to notice Jagex is really reluctant to refund or return items in general. Which to me smells like an ancient policy from the days when they had no proper backend logs to determine what was going on, and password/account sharing - trust trading - etc was incredibly common. Now that they have modern systems where everything we do in game is basically logged and can be studied in the data (should one simply know how to do so), I see no real reason they cannot start actually returning items and coin in cases where it's completely clear as day you had a completely innocent party get hit by a malicious actor.
Cause they seem to still by proxy of this ancient policy partially treat being hit by a malicious actor as the fault of the victim, and while they are more than willing to investigate in order to dish out penalties, they seem to still not like the idea of returning items, or stolen gold. Unless it's something big like one of their own employees does dirty stuff. Which links up nicely to them lacking a proper customer support team for other issues than billing - though as I recall, they are in the process of forming one at last.
amazing video buddy. i think every original player remembers her but doesn't know the reason she vanished!
just seeing her name threw me back in time.
absolutely incredible video, great job on this one dude!
This channel is the fucking shit. The storytelling is enamoring
I got hacked once in 2006, luckily I had a bank pin and recovery questions so after 6 hours the hacker got booted off the account and never made it into my bank, and I was training hunter at the time so all they could do was steal my feathers from hunting lol
The way you say merchanting is so funny. Keep up the good videos bro
It’s really jagex fault.. they could have given her the gp back.. smh
I love the videos man, and also love the Animal Apogee remix in the background near the beginning :)
Such a good song!
You are a great story teller. Great content. I don’t even play RuneScape and I was thoroughly enthralled.
Jamflex should have returned her items and put more effort into the account bans for the hijackers. You'd think a company with such a successful game would make less and less mistakes, but they have only became more unstable. It's so amazing how often they mess up big
hmm, I was kind of feeling that way this morning, when they released an update, and within a few hours, there was another update, and from what I can tell, OSRS servers were offline for about 90 minutes.
10:05 ahh yes! I remember chessy telling me everytime to hit that like & Sub button on your channel. that advice was defiantly the best!
Great video will! and i spotted my table! haha (i think, lol)
is the current chessy in runescape not her? the account has over 100m construction exp and looked very wealthy in game, very interesting. good video
Yeah - the real Chessy never returned to the game. The active one at the moment is an imposter.
@@rswillmissit i never knew that but that is good to know, i hope the real chessy is doing well in llife either way.
I'm pretty sure that after got hacked in RS she went straight to stock market and got rich irl
During the time of her hi-jacking, she was already a CEO/Founder of an online company (which now has amassed more than what she lost) -- She is extremely successful and likely has this game to thank because of it.
"where nothing significant happens". Made me laugh pretty hard
Reading all these comments of people saying they've also been hacked. 99% of people who get hacked don't get hacked via the recovery method it's usually from website data leaks and since 90% of people use the same password on every site it makes it that much easier. Rule #1 of the internet don't use the same password on every site.
I was hacked about 3 years ago, luckily I spread my wealth out and was able to bounce back. Now I keep my examine as private and use cosmetic overrides so nobody knows what gear I’m using
That must be RS3.
This is so weird... this all happened in RS3. seeing these acted scenes in oldschool runescape gives me the feeling of the old RS3 😂