Kid Spends 46,381 Dollars In Free-to-Play Game

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Horror stories about how much money people have spent on stuff you can buy in games have been around as long as there has been microtransactions and in-app purchases. But one teenager in Belgium went absolutely crazy with the amount of money he poured into online strategy game Game of War: Fire Age.

According to Belgian news outlet Nieuwsblad, the unnamed kid was reportedly buying in-game gold via his grandfather's credit card. The credit card info was given to him by his mother, who had requested her son's help to buy and download eBooks onto her tablet. After linking the credit card to his own iTunes account, he spent thousands of euros on gold in Game of War: Fire Age over the course of a couple of months. The boy's mother says that he claims not to have known that he was spending real money.



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No game is that good to spend that much...


 
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Holy shit
That kid has a problem


 
 
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But one teenager in Belgium
In case anyone was wondering: it wasn't me, you fracks.

Which third of Belgium you from? French, German or Bergundian/Netherlandan?


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"I've been battling with the struggle of love and anger and the anger has won. It's impossible for me to go back to the way I was. I've tried changing back but it didn't work. I still had it in me and doubt it will ever go away. I have no control over it anymore. It has become part of me."
>teenager


He knew what he was doing.


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>Expecting me to believe gramps has a $46k credit limit


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>Expecting me to believe gramps has a $46k credit limit
Could have been a debit account.


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Why is this so black?
This kid seems to suck at video games..... and at life. :P


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I'm sure people some TF2 regulars spend around the same amount of money like so...



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Damn, and my parents bitched at me when I asked for a $50 game.


 
 
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I'm sure people some TF2 regulars spend around the same amount of money like so...



The most expensive hat in TF2 translated into something like 6000 dollars worth of real world money.


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I'm sure people some TF2 regulars spend around the same amount of money like so...



The most expensive hat in TF2 translated into something like 6000 dollars worth of real world money.
I also remember when the first austrialim pan was found, it was sold for around either 5 or 6k I think