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Alongside the pocket change he gets from a nearby pizzeria. He earns an average of $60 per month through RuneScape, enough to buy cornmeal for arepas and rice for his son and sister. However, for Marinez working online doesn't mean just arepas. It's about freedom, even if Marinez finds the medieval fantasy video game boring.
In the midst of one of the most devastating economic collapses in the past 45 years without war, he and other in Venezuela are looking to gaming on video in order to stay alive as well as a possible route to migration. Video games don't mean being in front of a screen. It can mean movement. Hunting herbiboars for food in RuneScape can provide the money for today's meals and also the future of tomorrow's in Colombia or Chile Countries where Marinez has relatives.
Over in the Caribbean Sea in Atlanta, just a few hundred miles from Marinez and the home of Bryan Mobley. As a child was playing RuneScape for hours and hours, he informed me during a phone conversation. "It was fun. It was a way to clearly not do homework, or anything like this," he said.
Aged 26 now, Mobley thinks differently about the game. "I don't consider it to be an online world anymore," he told me. He sees it as more of a "number simulator" something akin to virtual roulette. The increase in the supply of currency in games is an injection of dopamine.
Since Mobley began playing RuneScape in the early aughts, an underground market was growing under the computer game's economy. In the realm of Gielinor there is a possibility for players to trade in items such as mithril longswords and yak-hide armor, herb harvested from herbiboars, and gold, the game's currency. Soon, players started exchanging in-game gold for actual dollars. This is known as real-world trading. Jagex is the game's developer does not allow these exchanges.
At first, real-world trading took place informally. "You might buy some gold from a person you know at high school." Jacob Reed, one of the most popular creators of YouTube videos about RuneScape who goes by Crumb in an email to me. The demand for gold outstripped supply, and some players became full-time gold farmers or even those who make on-game currency and sell it for real money.
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