If you even remember Runescape, a fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game published by Jagex, it is likely as"the crummy-looking game you played a few months 10 decades back." Nonetheless, RuneScape gold runs just fine on hardware that has not been known as state-of-the-art in over a decade, meaning that it's available to many in Venezuela that are strapped for cash, and its own gold still fetches a fairly real estate penny.
Gold farming, broadly , is the practice of grinding into a game specifically for the purpose of producing in-game currency or other material to be traded for real world money. While it's illegal by Runescape's principles, it's also a relatively safe and comfortable job in a place where one's security is by no means guaranteed.
"I gold farm mostly for the raw advantages of it," a player who goes by the handle Fhynal explained via DMs. "I don't have to go out. That may sound odd, but we live with a great deal of crime.
Fhynal stated he earns approximately 200,000-250,000 Venezuelan Bolivares, or roughly $US15-$US20 ($19-$26), per week. This adds up to"double, sometimes triple" the typical monthly salary in Venezuela, he said, even factoring in the intermittent week he takes to buy OSRS gold maintain a"low profile" and avoid getting trapped.
For Fhynal, it is only enough to help make ends meet for himself and his mom, as long as inflation doesn't hurl food prices into the stratosphere.
