OSRS gold  is a large portion of his gold from intermediaries, who buy gold in large quantities from gold producers and then resell it on websites such as El Dorado or Sythe. Horn believes he's spent anywhere between four and five thousand euros, fueling what he believes at one time was a gambling addiction.

As players like Corne as well as Mobley returned into RuneScape with the hunger and pockets of adulthood The game's black market increased. The players still reported the existence of Chinese gold miners, but there were others profiting off RuneScape's renaissance: Venezuelans such as Marinez.

On March 12 of 2020, Marinez decided to enroll into a police academy Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and work toward a career in law enforcement. The next day when the Venezuelan government released its first two cases of COVID-19.

It then closed all schools, shut down the border between Venezuela and neighboring countries, and put six states as well as Caracas as quarantine. Buy RuneScape gold was stuck in transit and was confined to his uncle's home in a city that was over 50 miles from his capital.