As long as it is hard to make a living in the real Venezuela, plenty of Venezuelans will toil in the world of fantasy
and sanctions have devastated Venezuela’s oil industry, the country’s main source of hard currency. But Venezuela’s economic crisis has encouraged the growth of another: the “farming” of virtual gold in the artificial worlds created by video games. Venezuelans spend hours on end playing massively multiplayer online roleplaying games to extract gold coins or crystal ones .
Game developers resisted. Gold farmers are not really playing the game, they contend. Some hack into other people’s accounts and steal their virtual gold. Excess gold farming can cause in-game inflation—though less than the 200,000% that theforecasts for Venezuela this year. Some providers of free games sell virtual gold themselves, and dislike competition from unlicensed gold farmers.became less popular. Game developers beefed up their compliance teams.
Two years ago a Reddit user who calls himself Cerael published a racially abusive guide on how to kill Venezuelans in the “player-v-player” places where gold farming occurs. Moderators removed the post and the intemperate comments on it. Jagex, RuneScape’s British developer, has banned real-world trading and intermediary websites. This month the company won a lawsuit that put two gold farming websites out of business.
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