A lot of these players were like Mobley. They played RuneScape in their teens and looked back fondly on the striking graphics and OSRS gold. Although these 20 and 30-year-olds were able to play for hours when they were younger They now had responsibilities other than homework.

"People are employed now they have families to consider," said Stefan Kempe another well-known creator and creator of online videos for RuneScape with close to 200k subscribers and goes under the SoupRS. SoupRS as part of an interview. "It's a limiting factor to the amount of time they can spend playing daily."

The game can be tedious. In order to increase a character's agility from 1 to 99, the top level, it's likely to take more than one week of unending play in accordance with a comprehensive guide published by the developer. When they realized they could have more than their typical allowances for teens, players such as Mobley, who works in a data center, made the decision to bypass the burden of increasing their character's level and the expense of expensive items as well as the often dull early stages of the game.

Others, like Corne an 21-year old software engineer born in Arnhem, Netherlands, who has refused to reveal his last name, bet on gold, and in extension real-world currency, on fights with players. "I have a love for money. In real life or in RuneScape the world of RuneScape, money is a nice thing to have," he said in an email.

He purchases the majority of his gold through RS gold buy gold in large quantities from gold producers who then sell it via websites like El Dorado or Sythe. Horn estimates he's spent between 4000 and 5,000 euros to fuel what he believes at one time was a gambling addiction.