A lot of people in Venezuela have turned to gold farming in old-school Runescape that a paper there published an article on how to do it about three months ago. Currently this week, someone posted a guide on the OSRS buy gold subreddit that efficiently made anybody from the nation a target from the game, whether or not they were gold farming.
Yes, farming gold is obnoxious, against the game's rules and will get a person banned. But the wave of anger cresting from the Runescape community this week is not at the gold farmers, it is in the people killing them (from the game).
"It's this informative article that disappoints me, its the blatant racist and'edgy' comments left by people who have no idea what it must be like to live in a circumstance were your economy is falling," wrote a moderator, who locked the ribbon five days past. The"guide" appears to have pointed out where the prime farming locations were, therefore anybody in that area, particularly killing plants that were green, was a candidate for getting assaulted.
Venezuelan gold farmers are from the wilderness PvP area harvesting green dragons, the sale the bones and hides that they drop in Runescape's Grand Exchange. That currency computes to about 50 cents per hour, with much more innovative players becoming around $2 or $3. Believe it or not, Runescape 2007 gold is traded on websites along with Bitcoin along buy RS gold with other virtual currencies.
This story in The New York Times a week said that inflation has dropped the value of Venezuela's money to half that of the dollar, effectively reducing minimal wage earnings to $5 per month.