There was a game that became popular, you are given a task and if you do it, you get money

You thought that this game can't be that hard and money is money which is very important in the world

You've been playing it for a few weeks and now your task is pick up a sword in the museum and do the sword swallowing for 1k$. You didn't do that and one night you feel knife against your neck and your bestfriend behind you and you said "what is going on?"

He said "I control the game... Game over"