Internet-based miners have always been a part of RuneScape Gold hugely multiplayer games, or MMOs such as Ultima Online as well as World of Warcraft. They also worked in the virtual worlds of text, claimed Julian Dibbell, now a lawyer for technology transactions who wrote about virtual economies in his journalistic work.

In the past, a lot of these gold miners were located in China. They hid in makeshift factories, where they killed virtual ogres and scavenged their bodies in 12-hour shifts. There were even instances of Chinese government employing prisoners to run a gold farm.

In RuneScape the black market economy that the gold farmers benefited from was comparatively small until 2013. The players were dissatisfied how much the computer game has evolved since it first launched in 2001. They asked Jagex to reintroduce an earlier version. Jagex released a version from its archive, and players flocked back to what would later be called Old School RuneScape.

A lot of these players were similar to Mobley. They played RuneScape in their teens and enjoyed the graphically slick graphics and a groovy soundtrack. While these 20- and 30-year-olds were able to play for hours as children but they had to take on responsibilities that went beyond schoolwork.

"People are employed now and are likely to have families," said Stefan Kempe Another popular video creator on RuneScape with close to 200k subscribers and goes under the brand name SoupRS, during an interview. "It's an obstacle to Cheap RS Gold the amount of time they can spend playing each day."