Recent reports clarify that in-game farmers are selling paintings for bitcoin to create a living. Gold Farming has always been regarded as a contentious and profitable operation since online gaming became extremely popular. The company model began trending in OSRS gold where gamers get in-game monies or items and later sell them for"real money".
In 2009 it was estimated that more than 1 million gold farmers had been established from China, but in-game gold farming also happens all around the world. Due to the secrecy, it is difficult to find an accurate figure on how much earnings gold farming brings in, but it was estimated to be approximately USD $300 million in 2008.
Venezuelans playing the game Runescape are planning to kill as many green dragons because they can to be able to accumulate 500,000 in-game gold that amounts to $0.50 worth of real cash when sold. Most of the farming players are making roughly $0.50 per buy Runescape gold hour Runescape that's supposedly a much better wage than most from the nation.
Some Venezuelans can make around $2-3 per hour if they have extremely good in-game ability sets and do not get banned from the moderators. These productive players can kill the boss Zulrah repeatedly and make approximately 3M Runescape gold per hour. Venezuelans with this sum of in-game skill sets are earning more money than most professionals in the country with college degrees.