Unbalanced Trade Riot

The Unbalanced Trade Riot (or the World 1 riot) is a riot that started sometime before (9 PM Jan 2. US eastern time) 1:00 A.M., UTC time, in early morning of January 3, 2008. This riot was caused by many F2P players finding that the update instituting a trade limit was unfair, and was unprovoked and unneeded. It is also the first major riot to ever occur in F2P.



It started a year prior with the growing problem of illegal trade of coins, which is more commonly known as "real world item trading". In the months prior to the Unbalanced Trade Riot, Jagex was cracking down on RWITers by creating multiple updates to stop RWTing, but unfortunately penalized legit players. Some players were also activating Protection Prayers, as F2P players cannot activate Retribution, a P2P prayer usually used in riots.

Unlike a similar riot, the "Pay to Pk Riot", which lasted multiple days, this one lasted around seven hours; sometime before 1:00 A.M. (UTC), and ended sometime before 7:30 A.M., at which time only five, if even that many, people were still rioting.

Common phrases
As the rioting continued, many phrases where used as followed.

Pro-Jagex phrases

 * "Go Jagex!"
 * "Rwit is abolished!"
 * "Blame the gold-sellers!"

Anti-Jagex phrases

 * "We hate Jagex!"
 * "R.I.P. Runescape 12/10" (Reference to the aftermath of the Bounty Hunter update.)
 * "Trading is ruined!"
 * "Ruinedscape, not Runescape
 * "Fagex, not Jagex!"

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUHAIVxuUk