Since Mobley began playing RuneScape in the aughts there was a black
market that had developed beneath the game's economic system. In the
realm of Gielinor, players can trade various items like mithril
longswords, yak-hide armor, plants OSRS gold
harvested from herbiboars, and gold, the game's currency. Sooner or
later, players began exchanging the gold they earned in game for actual
dollars, a process referred to as real-world trade. Jagex, the game's
developer does not allow these exchanges.
The first time,
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