Christian Alejandro is a college student studying geological engineering, but he spends his spare time around college responsibilities, usually 10 hours every day, leveling up RuneScape reports in the Nightmare Zone, a combat-based minigame. This allows him to quickly level up combat skills for the accounts he's playing, which, after high enough, are then sold for U.S. dollars to additional RuneScape players. He is paid an hourly rate to OSRS gold do so, and earns $100-150 monthly. By submitting a Reddit thread asking for work, alejandro got the gig.
"I was lucky to find someone to give me this job!" Discord is explained over by him. "People who are trying to live off minimum wage have a very poor time and there are many families [in Venezuela] who only eat once a day. I earn over $100 per month," Alejandro continues. "That's a considerable amount -- insufficient -- but you live with this. Without Runescape, I would not have any method to make that amount of money. RuneScape is a favorite with many Venezuelans, because it's a fantastic profit per month." Alejandro is not the only RuneScape player we have talked to who has been offered work by RuneScape players online.
1 RuneScape player would speak only if granted anonymity, as he believes that speaking out against the government could lead to him being assaulted. "I have seen warnings about posting things that may hurt the Government's image," he explains over Discord. "They've censored all of the media -- TV stations as well as the newspapers" Three decades ago, Perez was a school student living in a family that was struggling to put food on the dining table. He tells us his parents earn the equivalent of"two loaves of bread" per month. Desperate to enhance the lives he and his family were living, 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 and I made my first $100 later subscribing. This helped us a lot as my parents were only making like $10/month each but after that lucky month, matters did not go well," he writes. The value of this bolivar was becoming lower and lower every day because of hyperinflation, which meant that competition for online work on forums like Reddit has been increasing. Perez got his lucky break when he discovered a ribbon from a RuneScape participant who was looking for individuals to buy RuneScape gold play RuneScape for money.