Christian Alejandro is a college student studying geological engineering, but he spends his spare time about college responsibilities, generally 10 hours a day, leveling up RuneScape accounts in the Nightmare Zone, a combat-based minigame. This enables one to quickly level up combat skills for the accounts he is playing, which, once large enough, are then sold for U.S. dollars to other RuneScape players. He's paid an hourly rate to RuneScape gold do so, and earns $100-150 every month. By posting a Reddit thread asking for work alejandro got the gig.

"I was lucky to find a person to give me this job!" He explains over Discord. "People that are trying to live off minimum wage have a very poor time and there are lots of families [in Venezuela] who only eat once per day. "Runescape, in a few words, is my job. I earn over $100 per month," Alejandro continues. "That's a considerable amount -- not enough -- but you live with this. With no Runescape, I would not have any method. RuneScape is a favorite with many Venezuelans, because it's a good gain per month." Alejandro isn't the sole RuneScape player we have talked to who has been offered work by additional RuneScape players on the internet.

1 23-year-old RuneScape player would talk as he considers that speaking out against the government could result in him being attacked only if granted anonymity. We'll call him Perez. "I have seen warnings about posting things that may hurt the Government's image," he explains over Discord. "They have censored all the media -- TV channels in addition to the newspapers" Three years back, Perez was a college student living in a household that was struggling to put food on the dining table. He informs us his parents make the equivalent of"2 loaves of bread" per month. Desperate to enhance the lives that he and his family were residing, Perez started Googling ways to make money on the web.

"The first thing I did was to sign up for r/slavelabour. I did gigs after subscribing, and that I made my first $ 100 in a month. This helped us a great deal as my parents were just making like $10/month per but then lucky month, things did not go well," he writes. The worth of the Venezuelan bolivar was getting lower and cheap OSRS gold lower daily because of hyperinflation, which supposed that competition for internet work on forums like Reddit was increasing. Perez got his lucky break when he detected a ribbon from a RuneScape participant who was looking for people to play RuneScape for cash.