RuneScape has been going now for fifteen years. It’s been around a very long time, and that means as all games have people who cheat and abuse the rules, it’s got an awful lot of banned accounts in the game – all with their own inventories. Now Jagex, the developers of the game have announced that they plan to do something with all that frozen loot – auction it off!

The way it’ll be done is through an activity called Bank Bidders, inspired by Storage Wars where players will get to bid on the contents of a banned account’s inventory – but they won’t know exactly what it is they’re bidding for until they’ve won it. This could mean you end up with an inventory of nothing, or be lucky enough to get the ill-gotten spoils of an account that was banned for abusing an XP exploit.

It’s not a complete mystery though, the players will at least get told how old the account was when banned and how the account ended up being under the banhammer in the first place.

It’s certainly an interesting way of dealing with the backlog of items lost to the ban void.