Son spends over $7000 in FIFA with his father's credit card

[Ganoncrotch]

Thunderbird77 said:

ganoncrotch said:

Thunderbird77 said:

That it's even possible for a $60 game to have that much in dlc shows the poor state of this industry.

 

Well it doesn't really have any dlc content :s in a way, it's blind bags of random players to make teams with, players from teams already in the game for the most part, but you can spend as much as you want trying to get the perfect team of super rare players in their Shiny card status.

They are massively expensive tho and they just have 1 or 2 guarenteed good cards in them, EA started doing the blind bag stuff with Dead Space 3 I think, now it's gone nuts into Fifa tho.

It's still terrible.

 

It's even more terrible I think, that you can sink 1000s into the mode like this even tho the kid wasn't aware that it was actually hooked up to his dads credit card. I mean if you go from playing something like Guitar Hero 3 where you unlock extra songs by spending money ... but it's actual in game money that you earn from playing Songs to Fifa where these packs has a $ figure on them.... but it's not in game dollars it has now become actual dollars then yeah of course kids are going to get caught out.

The newer forza and Gran Turismo push it fairly heavily as well, buying cars with in game currency or car tokens bought with real money.