Should you link a recently acquired osrs account to a jagex account

I'm looking into purchasing an osrs account. This account has never been linked to a jagex account. Is it advisable to link it to a new Jagex account I created once I have purchased it. If not, what is usually the best way to go about this

 

B, also curious on this. I heard something about they can recover account and it recovers the launcher account?

 

It depends if the original creator/owner of the character tries to recover it. In that case, your Jagex Account will be disabled.

 

Depends on several factors. There are pros and cons to a Jagex Account. theres are also pros and cons to a normal account.

Generally, a Jagex account is more convenient to login with and relatively more secure as it is slightly harder to recover than a regular account. Also, it is less likely to be randomly locked or disabled due to jagex thinking its stolen.

If it is attempted to recover, an actual jagex mod will read any recovery requests and will ask for all necessary information to prove account ownership. They are also able to to have more discretion and judgement on the situation which may or may not work in your favor.

I have had situations where a mod is able to tell that an account is purchased or being shared and that will result in a negative outcome for both the buyer and the actual account owner trying to recover, you can very well end up with a locked account that no-one can play.
They can side with either party and any account tied to your jagex account can be locked if the actual jagex account becomes disabled.

this doesn't mean that all characters are gone if someone recovers a character from a jagex account however. there are several posts by jagex mods stating they will only remove a single purchased character unless the jagex account is being used to hijack accounts and store them. that said, because an actual mod has a lot more discretion with what they can do, they may or may not follow this protocol, and you may still lose your whole jagex account since that hijack clause can be used against you. it is always a risk.

If the account is actually recovered, it will remain as a jagex account and cannot be converted back to a regular account, which makes selling it again much harder as jagex accounts are less desirable. this also means if you convert, you will have a harder time selling it later on. if you add more accounts to the jagex account, you will have to sell them together which also makes it harder to sell.

if the purchased account is from a trusted seller, generally speaking, it is safer to convert to jagex account as it will make playing easier and the account is not likely to be locked or flagged for ip changes. additionally, because recovering a jagex account is more cumbersome and harder to sell, it makes it less desirable to try to actually recover it.

This all sounds bad but a regular account also has its drawbacks. first, it is easier to recover with the old legacy system because jagex tends to be predictable in their responses here and with the right information and close enough ip to the original owner, you will eventually succeed. it is not hard for a original owner / seller to recover most accounts, especially if they have an actual email and enough information to prove ownership.

there are also different pieces of information that can be used to make recovery easier and connect you closer to the account. this can be used by both a buyer or seller to secure an account. generally speaking, buying an unregistered account is ever so slightly safer than a registered one, and a seller is more likely to recover an account that they have had for a while before selling.

if the seller tries to recover a regular account, you will be notified by email assuming its registered. this can give you a heads up if a recovery is underway, but also means a recovery is imminent and it is faster to recover a legacy account than a jagex account.

at the end of the day, both types of accounts can be recovered with enough information. older accounts or accounts that the new buyer has had long enough can be harder to recover with the old system depending on the circumstances.

oh, also regular accounts can sometimes be randomly locked if jagex suspects them to be stolen or if the ip changes or sometimes for no reason at all. additionally, if you try to appeal an offense, even a 2 day mute, they sometimes lock the account and remove your registered email, which can completely disable your account if you don't have enough information or if the seller does not help out. it can take weeks to resolve even with enough information as jagex can keep denying your appeals, it is very stressful if this happens to you.

one good thing is regular accounts can be sold back and if you lose one, you only lose one and not all of them.

at the end of the day, both have pros and cons and it really just depends what you prefer and whether or not you are going to keep the accounts for a long time.

i like jagex accounts for accounts that i like and don't plan on selling and have purchased from trusted sellers or made myself

sketchy accounts, accounts for botting / ahking / rwting and accounts that are likely to be sold at some point are best kept as regular accounts

 

Sometimes I feel like we're going in circles with this conversation. As Jmods stated previously, they now look for METADATA of the account (with Jagex Accounts) which means that they know where it was created (country + city), which ISP was used to create an account, when it was created, original e-mail, IP, first password and so on, which also means that it's not possible for someone to pretend to be the original owner/creator (they look for hard data held about the account). They don't even fully disclose exactly how this criteria is used for Jagex Accounts because they don't want it to be used by bad actors (which I understand and completely agree) but it seems that one of the requirements is that the legacy account (old style account) has to be effectively hijacked in order to be granted to the original owner the request to transfer the hijacked character to his Jagex Account (as stated by JMods). If there's any doubt that hijacking has occurred, Jagex won't offer a transfer so it's game over anyway.

Again, I repeat, if the person currently playing the character is on the same city and country with the same ISP, it's the owner. If someone is playing in Greenland and the original owner sends the ticket from the creation location, the character is probably going to be removed from the hijacker's Jagex Account playing from Greenland and his account will probably be fully disabled (if he doesn't have any other characters) or the character will simply be removed from his Jagex Account and other characters will still be available for him to play.