The next few times, Marinez continued to OSRS gold hunt herbiboars, spending more than 36 hours on the task. "There are moments when I cannot bear the sight of hunting game ... however, in the event that it's for money I can put up with the sight for a little while," he messaged me in Spanish, adding later "It's simply my job. It's the only way I'm capable of living."
Marinez who is 20 and a half years old "does offers services" for others playing Old School RuneScape, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. People around the globe pay him - usually via Bitcoin--to go on quests and increase the skill of their characters such as miners, fighters, or hunters.
In Venezuela where in the year 2019 96% of the population had less than the global poverty level at $1.90 for a day. as per an analysis conducted by an Venezuelan university, Marinez is performing better than most.
Alongside the pocket change that he earns from a nearby pizzeria, Marinez earns around $60 per month through RuneScape that is enough to buy rice and cornmeal to make arepas for himself and his younger sister. But for Marinez who is online, it isn't all about arepas. It's about escape, even if he finds the medieval fantasy game is boring.
Amid one of the worst economic downturns in the last 45 years outside of a conflict, he and other in Venezuela have turned to gaming on video as a way of surviving and potential migration. The game of video doesn't have to mean being on a couch in front of the screen. It can mean movement. Hunting herbiboars for food in RuneScape could be used to finance food today and the future of tomorrow for Colombia or cheap RS gold Chile Countries where Marinez has relatives.
