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@lamprey263 said:

Why didn't his credit card company catch this? He'd have to be making charges left and right. I remember during an Xbox sale I bough 4 or 5 games in a couple minutes, each being an individual transaction of only like $4-5 each (because they don't have a cart system). And in that time after I made my last purchase they put a hold on my credit card I had to verify they were my purchases, my phone and email got warnings of suspicious activity and I had to verify them to lift the freeze. He'd have to be spam purchasing these things, shouldn't that have raised some red flags?

(All snark asides)

It really depends on the Credit Card Company you are with, some of them will inform about your purchase depending on how many times you use it. There are settings for Credit Cards on the spending limits and overcharging it. I'm just going to assume that the Father didn't have these features on, meaning they didn't inform him but however, if the card was stolen and overusing it more times, Credit Card Co. are supposed to call the owner and find out what's wrong but in this case, the teen use it only once, so they probably didn't call the Father.

I only use my Credit Card when I'm in the actual retailer, not using it for shopping online, I use pre-paid cards on consoles/PC to make my purchase.

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#53  Edited By commander
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@BassMan said:
@commander said:

indeed,

indeed, if he's 17 and doesn't know he's spending money, the kid must be mentally disabled.

For those who are wondering , I spend 3000$ over the time span of 3 years, that's 1000$ a year. I know it's a lot of money, but it's only 75$ monthly if you look at it from my perspective and I play this thing pretty much all the time.

I don't have the superior teams though but certainly very good ones. IF you want the best of the best, well that's probably the amount of money you will have to spend ( 7000$), especially this year since the prices in packs are less than the years before.

A word of advice, don't put your credit card in any xbox.

I never understood paying for virtual items. It is a scam. Especially on a full priced game. Those Ultimate Team cards could easily be in the game for free. I blame mobile gaming for corrupting the industry with all this micro-transaction bullshit. I refuse to pay for that shit. I avoid modes like FUT completely. Such a waste of money.

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@commander said:

For those who are wondering , I spend 3000$ over the time span of 3 years, that's 1000$ a year. I know it's a lot of money, but it's only 75$ monthly if you look at it from my perspective and I play this thing pretty much all the time.

I don't have the superior teams though but certainly very good ones. IF you want the best of the best, well that's probably the amount of money you will have to spend ( 7000$), especially this year since the prices in packs are less than the years before.

well, Battlefront and its $50 season pass ain't looking so bad now

It doesn't work that way, If a pay money in the game I have access to better players. You can also grind and trade like crazy but my hands can't take that kind of abuse anymore nor do I like trading, so I spent money.

Better players give you a better chance at winning and winning gives you more in game credits, which in turn can get you better players again but it's not only about winning

Certain players have a certain playstyle and since a lot of these players are virtually loaded into the game with 3d cameras , it really feels like you're controlling that player, or at least it comes close. So if you're a fan of a certain player it's really nice if you can play with them. I especially like playing with legends, which are exclusive to xbox, but they're also very expensive. Pele for instance has a street value of 500-1500$ (depends on the market) and that's only one player, he is the most expensive one though.

You can also use those playstyles in your formation, do you use a target man, or you want to play the short passing game, or you just want to dribble the whole defence.

So it's a combination of skill, the players you have and the way you setup your team. The latest fifa did close the gap more between the different sorts of players, in fifa 14, if you had an 400$ team, winning was pretty easy against someone with a 25$ team. Now the skill of the one that's controlling the players has become more important. and 25$ teams can easily beat 400$ teams, if the one with the cheaper team has the better skill.

I don't like that though, this year I spend a lot less but i suppose ea wants as much people as possible to play ultimate team , or they want people like me to spend more, the very best players still feel overpowered but then you have spend way too much cash, where you have to spend more to get about the same effect as in the previous fifas. So either it will have backfired or they got more people spending while levelling the playing field but that's not the reason why people started playing ultimate team.

So I won't be buying fifa next year, because it works both ways, even if you work hard by grinding and trading, the payoff is small because the quality of the players is less important. Fifa 15 was already a step down, I thought they would fix it with 16 but it's even worse. I really hope ea's greed won't pay off, they surely won't get my money anymore.

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#54  Edited By KungfuKitten
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@darkspineslayer said:

I blame the father and kid totally. We've all made purchases on these systems, you are damn well told that you're spending real money. Kid has no self control and spent $8000, and the father gave the kid a credit limit of $8000.

That said, while the argument that the charges are legitimate can be made, it is kind of shitty of the credit company and the console company not to work with him on the issue.

If they don't correct this I'd be stunned.

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#55  Edited By BassMan
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@commander: Glad to hear that you won't be giving them any more money. It really is a scam if you step back and look at it.... They got you spending $1000/year for a game that you used to buy for $60/year. So, you spent $3000 in 3 years, which is a large sum. That $3000 could have bought you a beast gaming rig and you would still have a lot of money left over.

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@BassMan said:

@commander: Glad to hear that you won't be spending anymore. It really is a scam if you step back and look at it.... They got you spending $1000/year for a game that you used to buy for $60/year. So, you spent $3000 in 3 years, which is a large sum. That $3000 could have bought you a beast gaming rig and you would still have a lot of money left over.

I think we've all been there to some degree. I paid too much for one game too. A 'free' to play game. Not thousands... but they only need a few ‰ out of the millions of kids exposed to DLC/'micro'transactions to completely surpass the profits of a good game. And making a good game takes effort. EA doesn't ever need to make a good game again, because these tactics totally work.

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@KungfuKitten said:
@BassMan said:

@commander: Glad to hear that you won't be spending anymore. It really is a scam if you step back and look at it.... They got you spending $1000/year for a game that you used to buy for $60/year. So, you spent $3000 in 3 years, which is a large sum. That $3000 could have bought you a beast gaming rig and you would still have a lot of money left over.

I think we've all been there to some degree. I paid too much for one game too. A 'free' to play game. Not thousands... but they only need a few ‰ out of the millions of kids exposed to DLC/'micro'transactions to completely surpass the profits of a good game. And making a good game takes effort. EA doesn't ever need to make a good game again, because these tactics totally work.

I can honestly say that I have never been duped into overspending on a game. The most they get out of me is BF Premium, but I feel the expansions are worth it. I have also double dipped on a few HD remasters.

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@BassMan said:
@commander said:
@MonsieurX said:

According to Commander,he played the well superior version of FIFA

indeed,

@nethernova said:
@lamprey263 said:

I meant in the game? What micro-transactions can rack up that much money?

The obvious answer is card packs for Ultimate Team.

@Big_Red_Button said:

It's easy to blame parents for this sort of things but these games are designed to make spending money tempting, easy and unclear.

No, in Fifa it's never unclear that you are actually spending real money. Unless the boy is illiterate.

indeed, if he's 17 and doesn't know he's spending money, the kid must be mentally disabled.

For those who are wondering , I spend 3000$ over the time span of 3 years, that's 1000$ a year. I know it's a lot of money, but it's only 75$ monthly if you look at it from my perspective and I play this thing pretty much all the time.

I don't have the superior teams though but certainly very good ones. IF you want the best of the best, well that's probably the amount of money you will have to spend ( 7000$), especially this year since the prices in packs are less than the years before.

A word of advice, don't put your credit card in any xbox.

I never understood paying for virtual items. It is a scam. Especially on a full priced game. Those Ultimate Team cards could easily be in the game for free. I blame mobile gaming for corrupting the industry with all this micro-transaction bullshit. I refuse to pay for that shit. I avoid modes like FUT completely. Such a waste of money.

I have no idea what the hell that shit even is. It's basically just collecting cards, right, and then you put your cards up against someone else's cards in a virtual matchup - but you do this without even playing the game?

I have no idea what's even going on with these "Ultimate Teams" that have been put into every EA sports game, but it seems like a scam designed to attract degenerates. To me the fact that they focus any time on that stuff at all, makes the game seem far less attractive. I have no idea what the appeal is in collecting digital cards for a sports game. Now if they integrated it with Fantasy sports where you actually won money or something it would be cool, but to just pay a ton of money for the cards and get nothing out of it... i have no idea how people get into that or why.

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Pre-paid cards ftw, my creditcard numbers will never come close to consoles

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Welp, in response to the stupidity of this kid, I went ahead and assembled a dream gaming rig build that could've been done with that money.

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Of course it is a Xbox gamer.... yet again.

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I'd rather spend $8000 on cheap hookers and get aids than play FIFA.

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this is part of why I hate the DLC/ microtransaction model. They know it is a medium with a lot of kids playing it, so there are always going to be some kids who don't fully understand the consequences of what they are doing and will run up charges. Most of the time it isn't nearly this extreme with $8000, but even if it's $100 it's pretty despicable that the company releasing the game is preying on the consumer like this.

And btw, it's a total cop out to say that it should be all the parents' faults. Give me a break. Most parents are aware of the dangers of allowing charges to get up this high, but some people didn't grow up with video games and don't understand that this type of thing can happen. Lots of people don't fully understand the complexities of credit card usage. It's not that that's okay, but it is a reality, and I don't think the penalty for not fully understanding should be huge cash penalty like what that family had to endure because of a video game.

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@whistle_blower: LMAO!! Why would you have your CC on file for that? He should have just used a $50 gift card and that would have solved that problem pretty quickly.

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O_O how does one spend that much on a single game.. ban?..get the son to work & pay it all back. :P

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#66  Edited By commander
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@BassMan said:

@commander: Glad to hear that you won't be giving them any more money. It really is a scam if you step back and look at it.... They got you spending $1000/year for a game that you used to buy for $60/year. So, you spent $3000 in 3 years, which is a large sum. That $3000 could have bought you a beast gaming rig and you would still have a lot of money left over.

Well now it does feel like a scam, but fifa 14 did not feel like a scam at all, I pretty much got what I paid for, better quality players. It just feels like a scam today because having the better players doesn't feel like having the better players as much anymore and it has gotten worse every year.

The biggest problem I had the first year was that I did not understand the trading in game very well, I just didn't have the patience for trading and that costs you money. I was also trying out players then selling them buying em again but you have to pay 5 percent transaction cost to ea as well.

What was also a problem is that xbox doesn't let you delete you credit card data so easily, they have some weird rules, like you cannot delete your credit card data from your xbox until your xbox live renews, which is monthly, but if you did that yearly, you can't delete it for a whole year, which is close to criminal because I got this information through the phone, you couldn't delete it yourself nor could you find this information anywhere.

I did hear from a friend that he threatened to call his credit card company and they then removed the data. Xbox selling tactics for you, because money is spend a lot more easily with a click of a button.

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Wow I barely spend £100 on my ps4 in a year, ps plus and the odd expansion. 8000 you could buy a cheap car for that amount.

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#68  Edited By BassMan
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@commander said:
@BassMan said:

@commander: Glad to hear that you won't be giving them any more money. It really is a scam if you step back and look at it.... They got you spending $1000/year for a game that you used to buy for $60/year. So, you spent $3000 in 3 years, which is a large sum. That $3000 could have bought you a beast gaming rig and you would still have a lot of money left over.

Well now it does feel like a scam, but fifa 14 did not feel like a scam at all, I pretty much got what I paid for, better quality players. It just feels like a scam today because having the better players doesn't feel like having the better players as much anymore and it has gotten worse every year.

The biggest problem I had the first year was that I did not understand the trading in game very well, I just didn't have the patience for trading and that costs you money. I was also trying out players then selling them buying em again but you have to pay 5 percent transaction cost to ea as well.

What was also a problem is that xbox doesn't let you delete you credit card data so easily, they have some weird rules, like you cannot delete your credit card data from your xbox until your xbox live renews, which is monthly, but if you did that yearly, you can't delete it for a whole year, which is close to criminal because I got this information through the phone, you couldn't delete it yourself nor could you find this information anywhere.

I did hear from a friend that he threatened to call his credit card company and they then removed the data. Xbox selling tactics for you, because money is spend a lot more easily with a click of a button.

What I am trying to say is... you are paying for nothing. You are being tricked. They created a virtual market for these packs/players and assigned a monetary value to them. EA could have easily included this in the game for free. However, they know that they can take advantage of people. They know that people will want to get a competitive edge by getting the best players. They also know that other gamers will feel like they are at a disadvantage if they also don't have good players. This creates a vicious cycle of wanting more packs/players and wasting money. They used jedi mind tricks on you. Now you are $3000 poorer.

You have to be strong and not give into their shady tactics. What makes it even worse, is the fact that they are pulling this shit with a full priced game. I can understand the so called free to play/pay to win games, but this is just straight up sleazy. The corporate greed has no limits and they will manipulate you any which way to get more money from you.

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#69  Edited By commander
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@BassMan said:
@commander said:

Well now it does feel like a scam, but fifa 14 did not feel like a scam at all, I pretty much got what I paid for, better quality players. It just feels like a scam today because having the better players doesn't feel like having the better players as much anymore and it has gotten worse every year.

The biggest problem I had the first year was that I did not understand the trading in game very well, I just didn't have the patience for trading and that costs you money. I was also trying out players then selling them buying em again but you have to pay 5 percent transaction cost to ea as well.

What was also a problem is that xbox doesn't let you delete you credit card data so easily, they have some weird rules, like you cannot delete your credit card data from your xbox until your xbox live renews, which is monthly, but if you did that yearly, you can't delete it for a whole year, which is close to criminal because I got this information through the phone, you couldn't delete it yourself nor could you find this information anywhere.

I did hear from a friend that he threatened to call his credit card company and they then removed the data. Xbox selling tactics for you, because money is spend a lot more easily with a click of a button.

What I am trying to say is... you are paying for nothing. You are being tricked. They created a virtual market for these packs/players and assigned a monetary value to them. EA could have easily included this in the game for free. However, they know that they can take advantage of people. They know that people will want to get a competitive edge by getting the best players. They also know that other gamers will feel like they are at a disadvantage if they also don't have good players. This creates a vicious cycle of wanting more packs/players and wasting money. They used jedi mind tricks on you. Now you are $3000 poorer.

You have to be strong and not give into their shady tactics. What makes it even worse, is the fact that they are pulling this shit with a full priced game. I can understand the so called free to play/pay to win games, but this is just straight up sleazy. The corporate greed has no limits and they will manipulate you any which way to get more money from you.

You do have a point there but let's be honest here, it's 3000$ over a time span of 3 years, that means 75$ a month, I hardly buy any other games and I was on this game all the time until a couple of months ago, when I figured out the quality in players isn't as big anymore, the release of fallout 4 has something to do with it as well, which is one of the few games I bought at full price since I started ultimate team back in 2013.

When I started this thing, I sold my rig since I was hardly using it anymore. Pc gaming is a money pit as well you know, before I started ultimate team, I was buying consoles , buying new cpu's, gpu's and and a lot of games as well. With pc gaming you always want more and newer hardware. Not to mention the price of the electricity bill, I use all my free time for gaming, my xbox is using 120W, my rig was 350W, that's three times as much, that did not only cost me more it's also bad for the environment.

Of course the 9XX series are power friendly but they are also pretty expensive. I know you can sell your old hardware but that's always with a major loss as well. In the end , I'm not spending much more than I used too, but you're partly right though, it is a vicious cycle of wanting more packs and players, but the thrill of beating your opponent with amazing goals and with players that were your idols in your child hood was very nice, until they nerfed most of those players.

What I also want to mention is, is that I wouldn't have started this ultimate team If I actually had good games to play. I mean what games do we have to play, fallout 4, the witcher 3? I know these are good games but these games can't keep me occupied for years . Not to mention 2014 and 2015 were game starved years. You mentioned battlefield? I know battlefield is a good game but I'm 38 years old and I really couldn't care less about the next multiplayer shooter with high res graphics from last gen. Been there , done that...

This generation is one of the worst I've seen in terms of innovation and there's still a lot to innovate. It makes me think about the mid nineties, where 2d fighting games and side scroller beat em up were milked just like 3d shooters are milked now. I just hope vr and those kickstarter games like deliverance and star citizen bring something new to the table.

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Seems like a fucking stupid family. Who is 17 years old and does this? Who has a 17 year old kid and give them access to thousands of dollars wihtout knowing what the kid will do? They should pay what they owe, and get a fine for being too stupid.

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@Big_Red_Button said:

It's easy to blame parents for this sort of things but these games are designed to make spending money tempting, easy and unclear. Naive parents whose credit card information is already entered are prime targets for this sort of thing.

This dad has no recourse. His son spent eight grand of his money without his knowledge or consent and he's just going to have to pay it off.

You know I've been pointing trying to point this out for a while now. A lot of these microtransactions are designed to target children who don't have any idea they're being charged. Most people here tend to blame the "ignorant child and neglectful parent" when they should also be attacking this scummy business practice as well. They could have at the very least had the decency to send some form of warning to the credit card owner that large fees were being charged to his account and if he wished to continue purchasing, but no. Nothing.

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Well now...if they've spent it on Star Citizen...this wouldn't be news at all :D

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#73  Edited By StrongBlackVine
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@commander: This is ridiculous. Spend your money on whatever you like, but what a waste.

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#74  Edited By MirkoS77
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I'm sorry, this is just irresponsible parenting. Why do these teens have access to CCs or the ability to utilize them? All of my devices are locked, redundantly, if any of my financial information is on it. While I don't have kids, if I did, I'd sure as hell take a few minutes to look at whatever they bought to see if MTs or any form of online purchases were a part of the game and take steps to protect myself before allowing them to play if my info was in any way accessible on that platform.

I feel little sympathy for this man unless his child intentionally made an effort to steal his CC and acquire his passwords. If this is an innocent mistake, it's nevertheless created from carelessness, and I don't think any company should be denied recompense for providing services on that basis.

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#75  Edited By sayyy-gaa
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@commander said:
@MonsieurX said:

According to Commander,he played the well superior version of FIFA

indeed,

@nethernova said:
@lamprey263 said:

I meant in the game? What micro-transactions can rack up that much money?

The obvious answer is card packs for Ultimate Team.

@Big_Red_Button said:

It's easy to blame parents for this sort of things but these games are designed to make spending money tempting, easy and unclear.

No, in Fifa it's never unclear that you are actually spending real money. Unless the boy is illiterate.

indeed, if he's 17 and doesn't know he's spending money, the kid must be mentally disabled.

For those who are wondering , I spend 3000$ over the time span of 3 years, that's 1000$ a year. I know it's a lot of money, but it's only 75$ monthly if you look at it from my perspective and I play this thing pretty much all the time.

I don't have the superior teams though but certainly very good ones. IF you want the best of the best, well that's probably the amount of money you will have to spend ( 7000$), especially this year since the prices in packs are less than the years before.

A word of advice, don't put your credit card in any xbox.

???WTH??? not sure if serious???

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@whistle_blower said:

A father has banned video games from his home after his 17-year-old son unwittingly spent $7,625.88 (£5,255.03) on the popular football game FIFA.

Lance Perkins made the drastic vow after receiving the huge bill for in-game purchases in the post.

"It floored me. Literally floored me, when I'd seen what I was being charged," he told CBC News (via Albaraa Fahmy on Digital Spy). "He thought it was a one-time fee for the game. He's just as sick as I am, he never believed he was being charged for every transaction, or every time he went onto the game."

And the household ban is no temporary measure: "There will never be another Xbox system—or any gaming system—in my home," he said.

What did he think was going on? What was he clicking?

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@rollermint said:

Well now...if they've spent it on Star Citizen...this wouldn't be news at all :D

Actually a good point.

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@five_6 said:
@rollermint said:

Well now...if they've spent it on Star Citizen...this wouldn't be news at all :D

Actually a good point.

I'm having 150Mbps comcas internet installed in 2 hrs. Maybe that glitchy freaking game would run better

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I've got a friend at moved back to the States from Japan a while ago. His family stayed there because his oldest kid only had about 2 years of high school left (the family has since moved to the States) and it was easier for him to finish high school there and then move. When he left, he gave his iPhone to his oldest so they didn't have to buy a new phone for him. The iPhone was tied to one of his bank accounts that he used for paying bills. One of the big payments to come out of the account was for his motorcycle payment.

About 6 months after he had moved to the States, his wife got a hold of him and said the company he got the bike from called and said the payment didn't clear. He checked his bank account (which had enough to cover bike payments for several years) was almost empty. His son had been making transactions on the iPhone and racked up over $5k in purchases in about 6 months. My friend didn't know the account was being drained because the bank statements were sent to his home in Japan and his wife never went through them as they came in the mail. His son didn't realize all the transactions were paid transactions - he simply clicked and he got a new game or video or song to use on the phone.

So I can certainly see how the kid spent a shit ton of money on transactions for a game - if the kid doesn't know the charges are actually going to be billed to them or they're just that dumb, it can happen.

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#80  Edited By 2Chalupas
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@MirkoS77 said:

I'm sorry, this is just irresponsible parenting. Why do these teens have access to CCs or the ability to utilize them? All of my devices are locked, redundantly, if any of my financial information is on it. While I don't have kids, if I did, I'd sure as hell take a few minutes to look at whatever they bought to see if MTs or any form of online purchases were a part of the game and take steps to protect myself before allowing them to play if my info was in any way accessible on that platform.

I feel little sympathy for this man unless his child intentionally made an effort to steal his CC and acquire his passwords. If this is an innocent mistake, it's nevertheless created from carelessness, and I don't think any company should be denied recompense for providing services on that basis.

The card was probably already in there because of having to pay for Xbox Live. While the kid was obviously an idiot, I'm not sure I would blame the parents for "irresponsible parenting". They might not have been tech savvy, and didn't realize that MS stores the card in there.

Hell, I consider myself tech savvy - and even I got dinged for an "automatic renewal" on Xbox once when I didn't want it. The thing is, they are constantly changing your settings - any time you add a 14-day trial or do anything relating to your account, if you had a card stored in there they will actually SWITCH you back to automatic renewal. If you have it set to turn off automatic renewal that is not even good enough, you have to keep double checking because lots of things will "default" your settings back to automatic renewal. Unfortunately I got dinged because the deal required me to have my card in there (I was doing that $1/month thing went you were able to keep signing up 1 month at at a time for just $1).

Basically these digital marketplaces are huge scams. they WANT stuff like this to happen. You think EA cares that they got $8000 for something than in reality has ZERO tangible value? Hell, the Ultimate team stuff costs nothing at all to develop - anything they get is free money, but when they get $8000 I'm sure they are laughing their asses all the way to the bank.

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@sayyy-gaa: Please exercise some reply etiquette and not chain ever body in your replies.

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@cainetao11 said:

Pretty much and that's small change for a kid with no responsibilities or bills.

All he needs to do is get a part time job working 15-21hrs per week and pay that off within 6-7 months. Less time if he decides to work full-time during the summer break which many kids his age do:

Jun-Jul-August imma just rounds 30 each cuz lazy = 60 days aka 40 work days at again rounding $10 an hr. Contrary to the garbage perpetuated in the media, many low skilled part-time jobs presently already pay above minimum wage alas it isn't really a "living wage" aka independence. Anyway that's roughly $3200 and his father can make-up the rest or force his son to do weekend shifts while in school.

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@lamprey263 said:

what the hell could he possibly be spending that money on?

FIFA Points which are quite clearly marked as costing £'s, as in, real money. So they should be worried more about their idiot son than about video games, he's 17 it's really quite different to if an 8 year old does something like this.

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#85  Edited By Eikichi-Onizuka
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@SpinoRaptor24 said:
@Big_Red_Button said:

It's easy to blame parents for this sort of things but these games are designed to make spending money tempting, easy and unclear. Naive parents whose credit card information is already entered are prime targets for this sort of thing.

This dad has no recourse. His son spent eight grand of his money without his knowledge or consent and he's just going to have to pay it off.

You know I've been pointing trying to point this out for a while now. A lot of these microtransactions are designed to target children who don't have any idea they're being charged. Most people here tend to blame the "ignorant child and neglectful parent" when they should also be attacking this scummy business practice as well. They could have at the very least had the decency to send some form of warning to the credit card owner that large fees were being charged to his account and if he wished to continue purchasing, but no. Nothing.

No. While I do think these games are s****y no one make the kid's parents give him access to thousands of dollars. If anything they are more to target addicts than children.

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just downloaded 24gigs in 40 Minutes.

My new 150Mbps internet finished installing about an hour ago. Freaking amazing. It's only 100Mbps cause I have 80 gigs of games still downloading on my desktop. I'm posting this from my laptop

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Kid lied to his pops, you get a prompt telling you $$$ before you make any purchase like this.

The dumbass dad believed him.

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@DrkeX said:

Kid lied to his pops, you get a prompt telling you $$$ before you make any purchase like this.

The dumbass dad believed him.

This and kid damn well knew what he was doing and he didn't care until his dad go the credit card bill

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#89 Ant_17
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What i get from this:

Have a limit on the card.

Don't put it on something my stupid kid can use it without my permission.

Don't be an idiot.

Don't be an idiot.

And don't be an idiot.

If i fail any of these:

Don't breed more idiots like me.

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I'd be more worried that my kid is an idiot.

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Like a few posters said, the kid is full of BS. If it were a 6-8 yrs old this is plausible (even then, my 6 yr old niece understands clearly when I said "NO PAID APPS" whenever she wants to DL games on my mobile) but this is 17 yrs old young man and I'm pretty sure he knows what the F hes doing, its just that he didnt expect it to be THAT high. I can reason that sometimes its easy to overspend, that happened to me every Steam sale (altho not THAT much), he knew full well what he was doing.

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Both the father and the son are total idiots, my mom never left her credit card out for me to just pick up when I was 17 and even then I knew how bloody microtransactions work.

Also the whole "video games will never be in my household" part is total garbage, this is just as much his fault as it is his sons'

Pathetic

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#93  Edited By Heil68
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I got my accounts set up to need passwords for purchases.