Others, like OSRS gold the 21-year-old Software developer who hails from Arnhem, Netherlands, who has refused to reveal his name, but bet gold, and by it, the real world currency, on duel with other players. "I love money. In real life or in RuneScape, money is nice to have" he said in an interview.

He buys much of his gold via middlemen, who purchase gold in large quantities from gold producers and then sell it to websites such as El Dorado or Sythe. Horn says he's used between 4000 and 5,000 euros to fuel what he believes at one point was the equivalent of an addiction to gambling.

When players such as Corne as well as Mobley came back the game of RuneScape with the appetites and wallets of adulthood, the black market for the game grew. Players reported that there was a large number of Chinese gold farmers, however, there were other players who profited from RuneScape's renaissance: Venezuelans such as Marinez.

On March 12 the year 2020, Marinez embarked on a journey to enroll at a police academy in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and work toward a career in law enforcement. On the same day, the Venezuelan government announced its initial two cases of COVID-19.

It also closed all schools, closed the frontiers between Venezuela as well as neighboring countries and put six states and Caracas within quarantine. Cheap RuneScape gold was forced to travel on his own and holed up at his uncle's home in a city a little more than 50 miles to the capital.