The moment players like Corne as well as Mobley return in RuneScape with the appetites and wallets of adulthood the game's black market expanded. Players reported that there was a presence of RS gold Chinese gold farmers, but there were many who made money from the revival of RuneScape: Venezuelans as well as Marinez.

On the 12th of March of 2020, Marinez began to apply in a school for police officers in Caracas the capital city of Venezuela and pursue the career of a law enforcement officer. On the same day when the Venezuelan government announced its first two cases of COVID-19.

It also shut down all schools, shut down the borders between Venezuela as well as neighboring countries and placed six states and Caracas in quarantine. Marinez was stranded in transit and hunkered down at his uncle's house in a city a little 50 miles to the capital.

Two months later, Marinez came back to Maracaibo, "without any money in my pockets," he said. Marinez tried to runescape 3 gold find work but was unable to find one in a job market demolished by the pandemic--and a yearslong economic downturn.