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

KingWhovian · October 05, 2014, 04:44:37 PM

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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.

AngryBrute · October 05, 2014, 04:53:39 PM

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

Luis · October 05, 2014, 05:06:18 PM

Holy shit
That kid has a problem

Flee · October 05, 2014, 05:09:58 PM

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Nascent Email · October 05, 2014, 05:22:01 PM

Quote from: Flee on October 05, 2014, 05:09:58 PM

Quote from: KingWhovian on October 05, 2014, 04:44:37 PM
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?

RustingFloor · October 05, 2014, 05:23:25 PM

>teenager

He knew what he was doing.

Turkey · October 05, 2014, 05:35:34 PM

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

月 · October 05, 2014, 07:41:27 PM

Quote from: EngagedTurkey on October 05, 2014, 05:35:34 PM

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

Could have been a debit account.

UnwornUniform · October 06, 2014, 12:13:28 AM

This kid seems to suck at video games..... and at life.

slayingold · October 13, 2014, 10:54:49 AM

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

PSU · October 13, 2014, 12:27:25 PM

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

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Sandtrap · October 16, 2014, 08:49:46 AM

Quote from: slayingold on October 13, 2014, 10:54:49 AM

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.

slayingold · October 16, 2014, 12:12:54 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on October 16, 2014, 08:49:46 AM

Quote from: slayingold on October 13, 2014, 10:54:49 AM
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