For Fhynal, runescape 3 gold is just enough to make ends meet for himself and his mother, as long as inflation doesn't hurl food costs into the stratosphere.
"In fact, there are those who, when they didn't play, they weren't able to eat and would perish of hunger," a former Runescape farmer who wanted to stay anonymous told me on Facebook. "I have friends who perform every day and if they don't play, they do not eat daily."
Earlier this year, a local paper published an article on the procedure.
This has resulted in growing anxieties, with players doing everything from regularly demanding that developer Jagex ban all gold farmers to publishing a guide which assists other players effectively hunt, kill, and insult farmers. "I have friends who perform daily, and if they don't play, they don't eat that day."
The author of this guide, which received 1,613 upvotes and 769 comments on the Old-School Runescape subreddit, asserted they did it facetiously, but it still divided a part of Runescape 2007's community together quite sharp lines.
"I never thought I'd see a guide on how to buy rs3 gold effectively kill bad people," read one reply. "Literal humanitarian crisis going on there. People starving to death. [The guide's author] believes it is a good plan to not just kill them taunt them in their own vocabulary and [teabag] them return... That is some fairly arsehole shit right there," read another.