A lot of these players were like RuneScape Gold Mobley. They played RuneScape when they were teenagers and looked back fondly on the graphically slick graphics and a groovy soundtrack. Although these 20 and 30-year-olds had hours to spare when they were younger however, they were now juggling responsibilities beyond their homework.

"People are employed they have families to consider," said Stefan Kempe another well-known video creator on RuneScape who has over 200,000 followers and goes by the SoupRS. SoupRS, during an interview. "It's a limiting factor to the amount of time they can spend playing daily."

The game can be a bit tedious. In order to increase a character's agility from one to 99, the highest level, would require more than a week of unending play according to a detailed guide published by the developer. After they received more than just their allowances as teenagers, players like Mobley, who works at a data center, decided to get rid of the grind of leveling up their characters as well as the price of the rare items and the tedious initial stages of the game.

Others like Corne an 21-year old software engineer located in Arnhem, Netherlands, who was not willing to divulge his last name, gambled on gold, and consequently real-world currency on duel matches with other players. "I like money. It doesn't matter if it's real or in RuneScape the world of RuneScape, money is a nice thing to have" the player said during the course of a telephone call.

Horn buys the bulk of his gold from middlemenwho buy it in bulk from gold farmers and then sell it on websites such as El Dorado or Sythe. Horn says he's used between 4,000 and 5,000 euros fueling what he thinks at one point was the equivalent of RS 2007 Fire Cape a gambling addiction.