Jagex, the publisher behind RuneScape, has registered several trademarks in the UK, seemingly as a way to combat third-party websites selling in-game currency.READ MORE: New artists talk appearing on the FIFA soundtrack: “It’s validation”The company has filed two trademarks in the UK, one for “OSRS Gold” and another for “RS Gold”, with the filing noting that the company has registered the use of the phrases as words.
This would presumably halt third-party sites from being able to advertise that they sell RS Gold.A cursory Google search of either term returns hundreds of websites, many of them with one of the terms in their URL, that offer currency in RuneScape in exchange for real money.This followed the news on October 13 that Jagex was.
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