A decade earlier, Venezuela, a petrostate under RuneScape Gold the administration of Hugo Chavez, witnessed a decline in oil prices. In 2017, the cost of a barrel dropped to just $50, down from a record high of over $100 and The U.S. instituted wide-ranging sanctions against Venezuela's repressive government.

"When the prices of oil started to fall, there was no more money to import products," said Alejandro Velasco professor at New York University who specializes in Venezuelan politics, in an interview by phone. "As an outcome the country was left with no money to support the economy."

Venezuela's bank accounts were empty after it spent its largest recent oil cashflow for social services, such as subsidised healthcare, food as well as literacy programmes. Chavez has also eliminated perceived dissidents from the oil business following an attempted coup d'état, which affected production.

In addition, widespread corruption in government further weakened the economy, according to Paul Angelo, a fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations who specialises in Latin American politics.

Runescape developer Jagex has ended with Runelite HD, a fan-made HD mod of the popular open-source client for Old School Runescape, just as the project was due to launch last Monday.

The decision was made at the eleventh hour, and has some Runescape supporters expressing their displeasure over Jagex's decision and saying they'll move to other MMOs.

Runelite HD designer "117" posted to Reddit Tuesday to share the message he got from Jagex that was later confirmed by Jagex in its own blog post. Runelite HD operates as a plugin which will give an important visual overhaul the core game Runescape that can be observed in 117's Twitter. The modder added that they've spent around 2000 hours over OSRS Gold Buy the last two years working on Runelite HD.