In RuneScape, the black-market economy that the gold farmers benefited from was rather small until the year 2013. Players had been dissatisfied with RS gold the extent to which the game had changed since it was first launched in 2001. The players subsequently asked Jagex to reintroduce a prior version. Jagex released a new version from its archive, and subscribers returned to what came to be referred to as Old School RuneScape.

A lot of these players were like Mobley. They played RuneScape as teens and remember fondly the angular graphics and kitschy soundtrack. While these 20 and 30-year-olds were able to play for hours when they were younger however, they were now juggling responsibilities that went beyond schoolwork.

"People have jobs and are likely to have families," said Stefan Kempe, another popular creator of videos on RuneScape with close to 200k subscribers and goes under the username SoupRS, on an interview. "It's something that restricts the amount they can play every day."

It can be quite tedious. In order to increase a character's ability from 1 to 99, the most powerful level, it's likely to take more than one week of nonstop play, according to a complete guide published by the developer. Now that they had more than their typical allowances as teenagers, players like Mobley, who works at an information center, decided to bypass the grind of increasing their character's level or the cost of rare items, and buy runescape 3 gold the often tedious early parts in the gameplay.