Since Mobley began playing RuneScape in the aughts there was a black market that had been bubbling under the game's economy

In Venezuela where, in the year 2019 96% of the population made less than the poverty line at $1.90 each day. as per a survey conducted by an Venezuelan university. Marinez is doing better than the majority of.

Alongside the pocket change he gets while working in a local pizzeria, he earns OSRS gold  about $60 per month through RuneScape and can afford cornmeal for arepas and rice for himself and his younger sister. But for Marinez working on the internet isn't only about arepas. It's about escape, even if he believes that the medieval fantasy video game boring.

As a result of one of the largest economic collapses in the past 45 years without conflict, the president and other people in Venezuela have turned to the game of video to ensure survival and possible migration. Video games don't mean being before a screen. It can mean movement. Hunting herbiboars for food in RuneScape could help finance the food we eat today and even the future of tomorrow's food in Colombia or Chile the countries in which Marinez is a member of the family.

Across the Caribbean Sea in Atlanta, just 2,000 miles away from Marinez is Bryan Mobley. When he was a kid playing RuneScape incessantly, he told me over the phone. "It was entertaining. It was a way to clearly not do homework, or anything like it," he said.

A mere 26 years old, Mobley sees the game differently. "I don't think of it as an actual world anymore," he told me. He sees it as an "number game," similar to virtual roulette. A rise in the amount of currency in games can be a source of dopamine.

Since Mobley began playing RuneScape in the aughts there was a black market that had been bubbling under the game's economy. In the realm of Gielinor the players can trade items--mithril longswords, yak-hide armor, herbs from herbiboars--and gold, the game's currency. Soon, players started exchanging the Buy OSRS gold gold they earned in game for actual dollars, a practice known as real-world trading. Jagex is the game's creator does not allow these exchanges.