Over the next few weeks, Marinez continued to OSRS gold hunt herbiboars and spent more than 36 hours working on the hunt. “There are instances when I don’t like the game … however, when it’s for a profit, I’ll tolerate it for a while,” he messaged me in Spanish after which he added “It’s just my job. From that, I’m capable of living.”

Marinez 20, who is twenty aged “does offer services” for other players in Old School RuneScape, a massively multiplayer online game of role-playing. Players across the globe pay him – usually via Bitcoin, to go on quests and upgrade the skills of their characters , whether they are warriors, miners, or hunters.

In Venezuela, where in 2019 95 percent of the population made less than the poverty level that is $1.90 each day. according to an analysis conducted by a Venezuelan university. Marinez has a better performance than most.

In addition to the pocket change he earns while working in a local pizzeria, Marinez earns around $60 per month from RuneScape which is enough to purchase cornmeal for arepas and rice for himself and his younger sister. However, for Marinez working online isn’t just about arepas. It’s about escape–even if he believes that the medieval fantasy game is boring.

In the midst of one the biggest economic crises of the last 45 years outside of a conflict, he and other in Venezuela are turning to gaming in order to stay alive as well as a possible route to migration. Video games don’t mean sitting at a desk.

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 for buy Runescape gold Colombia or Chile Countries where Marinez is a member of the family.