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Tibiantis hasn't "evolved" to anything, it is what it has always been. Venezuelans were present on the server since day 1, there are no more or less of them now. In fact their share in the community is constant, which is just about less than 20% on average (depending on the time of day, atm it's 18/127 = ~14%, and some of them are non-mage vocations).
Players are making runes? Sure, how else do you imagine a 7.4 server? There's no runes from NPCs, all the runes have to be made by players. Everyone makes runes sometimes, it has always been big part of the old Tibia. Most of those promoted characters below level 20 are 'normal' active players, who have main characters as well, and they just make runes semi-afk on their alt chars whenever they can. Implying that players who make runes are not actual (or worthy) players is like negating the whole existence of Tibia 7.4. Also, there's always less online and smaller activity overall during war times, and during holidays as well.
Tibiantis hasn't changed so much as you think, I can tell you that I've been reading such posts about Venezuelans, runemakers, everyone quitting etc. since its first weeks, and people were always bringing up the online list to "prove" their point. You can even go back 100, 80 or 60 pages here, in this topic, to see. Four years, three years... the same discussions and the same arguments, literally. The point is that it usually doesn't reflect the actual state of the server, but the author's personal attitude (e.g. their own boredom). Some players get bored and quit or take a break, others come back, that's also normal, and so are the fluctuations in population numbers. We have been witnessing this since the very beginning.
Anyway, merry Christmas everyone
But the point is, what you telling me about runes. Yes, there are no npcs. But venezuelans are not selling runes to make tibia money, they survive in real because they sell their runes for real money.
So people who are willing to spend more of their real cash, will have a bigger advantage than people who dont.
It wouldnt be a problem if the venezuelans sell their runes only to have advantages in tibia. But no, they sell them to have advantages in real life.