In the midst of one of the most devastating economic crises of the last 45 years without war, many in Venezuela are turning to playing video games to OSRS gold survive and potential migration. The game of video doesn't have to mean sitting at a desk. It can mean movement. Herbiboar hunting in RuneScape can provide the money for today's meals and also the future of tomorrow's for Colombia or Chile, countries where Marinez has relatives.

Over between the Caribbean Sea in Atlanta, just 2,000 miles away from Marinez lives Bryan Mobley. In his teen years playing RuneScape for hours and hours, he informed me via phone. "It was fun. It was a way to clearly avoid homework, and shit like it," he said.

A mere 26 years old, Mobley thinks differently about the game. "I do not see it as a virtual world anymore," he told me. According to him, it's an "number game," something akin to virtual roulette. An increase in the quantity of currency in games is an increase in dopamine.

Since Mobley started playing RuneScape in the early 90s, a black market had been bubbling up beneath the game's economic system. In the world of Gielinor there is a possibility for players to trade in items like mithril's longswords, yak's armor, herbs gathered from herbiboars. They also have gold, which is the game's currency. Soon, players started exchanging gold in the game for actual dollars, which is referred to osrs firecape service as real-world trade. Jagex the game's producer restricts exchanges like this.