With a high demand for gold farming, many RuneScape players outside Venezuela believe areas of RuneScape are governed by it. RuneScape’s economy is just like any other economy — it’s greatly influenced by the economics of scarcity, and the growing amount of people farming gold and RS gold items at RuneScape is affecting prices for a number of different items. The level of the impact became evident when the crisis in Venezuela escalated to a new level early last year.
How an economic crisis was caused by the economic crisis in Venezuela in RuneScape
In March 2019, the electricity network of Venezuela collapsed along with the country was struck by a succession of blackouts, leaving millions without power or water. Hospitals were some of the worst places. „A hell of a good deal of people died due to the power cuts,“ Martinez explains. The problems are still impacting people today, and some think they will continue long into the future, before the situation with the government is solved.
„[People] can’t get treatment like dialysis and the hospitals‘ conditions are insanely bad to the point that it’s a hazard problem,“ Martinez adds. The power cuts have become a major problem for Venezuelan RuneScape players that rely on RuneScape as their main source of revenue. For Martinez, the power cuts were why he moved away from traditional gold farming approaches to train accounts for U.S. dollars, as a sudden disconnection during combat could result in the death of his character and also the reduction of earnings. „After the first wave of blackouts started me and the men that worked with me dropped nearly all of our business,“ Martinez says.
„Disconnections are regular but not as long as it had been when they first began,“ he continues. They could still affect you for a few days depending on which part of Venezuela you reside in.“ He gets disconnected from our online chats. „We all know the power system and all the other state controlled systems are a wreck,“ Perez continues. „An example of lack of maintenance is that the state owned ISP. We’ve been chatting for a couple of minutes and cheap RuneScape gold also my internet has stopped working three times today. Hydro/water system too: if you do not have water pumps then you do not have water.
