In the midst of one of the most devastating economic recessions in the last 45 years without war Cheap OSRS Gold, he and many others in Venezuela have turned toward video games as a way of surviving and potential migration. Video games don't mean sitting at a desk. It can mean movement. Herbiboar hunting in RuneScape can fund the cost of food today and also the future of the next generation to Colombia or Chile the countries in which Marinez has family.

Across to the Caribbean Sea in Atlanta, nearly 2,000 miles from Marinez is Bryan Mobley. As a child was playing RuneScape constantly, he told me on a phone call. "It was amusing. It was a way for me to skipping homework, shit like that," he said.

Aged 26 now, Mobley views the game in a different way. "I don't think of it as an actual world anymore," he told me. It's for him more of a "number game," similar to virtual roulette. A rise in the amount of money in the game is an injection of dopamine.

Since Mobley began playing RuneScape in the early aughts, there was a black market rising up beneath the computer game's economy. In the realm of Gielinor, players can trade items--mithril longswords, yak-hide armor, herbs gathered from herbiboars--and gold, the in-game currency. Eventually, players began exchanging in-game gold for actual dollars, a process referred to as real-world trading RuneScape Gold for sale. Jagex, the game's creator does not allow these exchanges.