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Tuffty
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The issue here is you were hacked and some bugger got your name. They may have sold it to someone who had no idea it was hacked. So Jagex can't and won't just take it from an account who may have bought it legit.

Now saying that if it's on an inactive account and Jagex do a name sweep then you might be quick enough to snipe the name back. I would add to Ignore and keep an eye on it. It may change. If it does then keep trying to get it back. It may take 35+1 day to get it back or with a name sweep it could be that day.

1 time in here Jagex did give help and support. Sadly thats long done. I wish it would come back. It wouls solve so many issues.

Good luck with the name. Might want to edit post 1. Someone may snipe it before you lol. :P Comprehensive Account Security
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17-Feb-2020 13:06:44

Loki
Sep Member 2011

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Tuffty said :
So Jagex can't and won't just take it from an account who may have bought it legit. Buying & Selling names is against the game rules, isn't it....? O_o

Or is it now one of those "not encouraged, but you may do at your own risk" type of thing now?
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17-Feb-2020 16:32:03

Loki
Sep Member 2011

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Tuffty said :
Loki said :
Buying & Selling names is against the game rules, isn't it....? O_o

Or is it now one of those "not encouraged, but you may do at your own risk" type of thing now?

You can buy and sell names just not on the forums and it's at your own risk. Oh.. interesting...
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18-Feb-2020 07:48:07

Desupty RS

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Thank you both Loki and the Fmod. Waiting for a name sweep doesn't seem too unrealistic.

I'm probably back to finish my 5.4b xp goal which should take another two years and would like to eventually get the goal finished on my original username. I can deal with this knockoff name in the meantime. Whoever has Desupty now hasn't logged in for over a year so that would work out fine.

19-Feb-2020 01:11:27

Was Zeus

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One of the best RS players ever. His videos show 2010-2011 era RS at its peak and I think we both agree those were this games best days

Give this ginger dreadlocked man his name back

And mine too

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19-Feb-2020 12:37:17

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Jul Member 2010

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Desupty RS said :
Yeah I thought mine was protected too? Some old myth that maxed players get their username reserved to them. It just doesn't make any sense to me that somebody can literally use my LOG IN NAME for their Display name.

What's worse is that whoever has the name doesn't even appear on the 07 or the RS3 hiscores.
There's a grain of truth in this myth. The top 10k accounts on overall experience hiscores had their names protected (bound) when the name changing system came out in 2009. Join the RuneScape community on Reddit in
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22-Feb-2020 22:50:57

Finance
Apr Member 2012

Finance

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Tuffty said :
You can buy and sell names just not on the forums and it's at your own risk. To clarify, you are only allowed to trade names for GP. Trading names for IRL money is disallowed, and Jagex will often remove these names from circulation and/or ban the associated accounts.

Here's a recent post I made on the topic of this thread: Original message details are unavailable.
The reason Jagex stepped back from providing support for display names is that people abused the service:

- People sold/RWT display names and claimed the names were stolen by hijackers in an attempt to reclaim them
- Jagex received a lot of requests to lift "rare" names from other players (Jagex doesn't do this)

So instead Jagex moved to a first-come, first-serve system for display names. Jagex only intervenes to remove/blacklist offensive usernames.

Now that Authenticator protects website as well as game logins, it's very difficult to steal a name from an account that has Authenticator enabled.
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23-Feb-2020 06:02:11

Chee
Jul Member 2016

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Desupty RS said :
Nothing to be done about that. I feel very welcomed back
Sure sounds like Jagex customer support to me @Chee__RS
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