Whenever these power outages first occurred last March, they caused an economic crisis in RuneScape that RS gold radically impacted the prices of heavily farmed things such as dragon bones, Zulrah's scales, along with black chinchompas. As scarcity came to play, RuneScape players discovered what happens on their match's economy when you remove a sizable proportion of RuneScape players from RuneScape. James Austen is the owner of GE Tracker, a website which examines RuneScape's virtual economy. He's been amazed by the quantity of traffic coming from Venezuela.

"We get a steady amount of traffic on ge-tracker. Com. They're our 8th greatest country, which honestly is much higher than I thought they would be on this record," Austen says, explaining that the website received traffic from about 17,200 unique Venezuelan users during a six-month period in 2019. Austen says that RuneScape's market is stable, but it can be knocked by a massive population of RuneScape players evaporating. "The recent waves of power outages have had an immediate effect on the condition of raw materials and other exceptionally botted sources in RuneScape," he says.

The effect that Venezuelan RuneScape players are getting on RuneScape has become a divisive issue in the RuneScape community. The costs of items today fluctuate dramatically with the ongoing power cuts in Venezuela. Will Anema, that runs a favorite RuneScape YouTube channel, doesn't believe that costs are a fantastic thing. He believes the influx of gold farmers is getting a negative influence on RuneScape. "I really don't want RuneScape I know and enjoy being ruined," Anema states.

"The whole philosophy behind RuneScape is achieving aims," he continues. "Think about it this way: If we took everything to an intense and all of the very best gear and items were very cheap -- so cheap that when I went out and OSRS Gold For Sale bought gold, I could purchase every item that I needed to -- afterward RuneScape would be nearly meaningless. Everybody would have everything they desired, which would go against why folks play RuneScape. That's why I think flat-rate costs because you are selling gold is so detrimental to RuneScape."