Pay to PK Riot

The Pay to Pk riot (also known as the World 66 Riot) is a riot started on December 10th, 2007 in Falador square, world 66 as a response to the following updates:


 * Wilderness Changes, Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars!
 * Trade and Drop Changes
 * RuneScape vs Real-world Trading

Many players had felt that the removal of unbalanced trades obliterated Merchanting as well as limited the extent of aid between friends; others believed that this had severely handicapped Player-Killing; some were simply angry that they could no longer reliably transfer items between their accounts, although that was a violation of the Jagex rules to begin with.

Riots started on many worlds, notably World 66. The most common sayings were: "we pay, we say"; "pay to pk" (p2p); and "runescape is ruinedscape"; and "jagex is communist". As in all previous riots, there was much spamming and Retribution. There was much flaming of Andrew Gower and other Jagex moderators and those who attempted to break up the riot.

Player mods and even a few Green Dragon macros were also rioting as well, which can be seen in one of the images below.

There were also mass drop parties in the Falador party room, with items worth up to 16M+ being dropped.

Many players began taking advantage of this, including Player moderators (see pictures below), asking to take items off of those who were threatening to quit. People were also buying items at extremely low prices, such as a party hat for 10 million gp.

As of 1:00am EST, the riot had died down a fair bit, and a few players still protesting, but the riot picked back up once morning came.

Later, people started to drop and buy pink skirts, in the riot they're known as "riot skirts". The protest is now 16 hours long at this point.

There were also rioters shouting "support jagex - read the diary" and "support jagex". The diary refers to the developement diary explaining why Jagex made these changes.

People were also shouting "R.I.P. Runescape 1999-2007". At this time, the riot is going at its 21st hour of protesting.

Video of the Riot
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