I have made around €700 off of runescape and habbo which I invested into a pc a few years ago, most of my in-game money was acquired through gambling though.
But those chinese gold (on games) farming companies actually ruin entire economies.
Runescape has banned millions of bots and the price of 1 million coins on oldschool runescape is now all the way down to like $1.50 when it used to be $3 before it was overrun by goldfarming bots.
Game economies are a lot smaller especially on graal, one player acquiring 10.000 gralats per hour through multiple accounts which the player then sells for real money would crash the entire gralatshop value-wise cus why would you pay more money when there's a cheaper alternative.
It's like runescape3 bonds that are currently $6.99 if you buy it from runescapes store, a single bond is worth 3 million coins.
Yet if you buy off of a goldselling website you could get around 27 million coins for that 6.99
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This isn't runescape. This is graal, where players are too lazy to farm and not intelligent enough to create farming bots. I wish there were a way to absolutely know the difference, but we can't really distinguish how many gralats are generated by farming versus through the shop, but it's an obvious guess that the shop produces a thousand times closer to 100% of the gralats than farming does.
I suppose if they could figure out a way to know how many gralats were spent to know the GDP of Graal, then they could subtract the amount spent on gralat packs to know how many gralats were produced via farming.