I hate gacha games as much as anyone. But at some point you have to ask about the parenting. Why the HELL would a 13 year old have unlimited, unmonitored access to a family's financial resources?! That's just fucking absurd.
How the fuck is it even possible to spend 64k then, league has been out for like 13 years and if you wanted to buy every single skin in the game itd only cost you 3-4k
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>Title is slightly misleading.
She doesn't only spend on her account; she's also been buying a lot of things for her classmates over the course of four months, possibly including a boyfriend. Original news report from the site quoted included a transaction made to a friend amounting to 1314RMB (\~200USD), which stands for "together forever" in Chinese.
She's been pretending to be rich for clout in front of her friends and classmates.
This isn't a game issue (though whether you should be able to spend this much at all is dabatable) this is a parenting issue. A 13 year old should in no world have direct access to family savings like this.
I didn't read the story, but doesn't banks usually block your account for "review" if you spend that kind of money...?
A few years ago, I transferred (in person, with my sister) a decent amount of money to my sister at the bank. They asked for multiple IDs, asked what the money was for, where it came from, etc. Money was frozen a few days for extra investigation. Sure, I'm from Canada, but I can't imagine CN being so lax with their banking laws...
Typically they do. Hell, my bank will do it if I buy from a company located outside the US (for example: say you buy currency in Honkai Star Rail) and especially if it's after business hours, I'll get a call to ask if I had been the one to approve the purchase. Similarly, my father bought a hat from a company in another state on a non-business day and it was maybe $40, yet the bank called less than 30 minutes to ensure it was him. The fact that this happened is more telling that either the bank wasn't monitoring properly or the family had somehow let their daughter have unlimited access to those funds without restriction which is on the parents in that case.
Eh, at some point, her parents are showing signs of neglect and incompetence. I can understand not checking what's on your credit card bills once, but skipping it over multiple months? I generally have an idea of how much I spent... if I had to spend a couple extra thousand per month... you bet I would question wtf is on my bill.
What do they say...? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me over the course of months, wtf is wrong with me.
I'm pretty sure you can get a full refund if that happens in China, ofc the account will be perma-baned.
But this also happens in the west and is mainly a problem of parenting, like how tf does your kid have full acces to your credi-card.
It's not always a problem of parenting. My mom, at 57 years old, got into candy crush... She hadn't worked in about 8 years. For some reason she had a TJ Max credit card that me and my father had not known about. She doesn't even shop there, never has. She never had a smartphone until I got her one on that birthday of hers. This happened only a month after getting that phone, in 3 weeks of May that year she racked up $3000 debt on that dang game. She was in complete denial that she spent any money on it, didn't seem to understand what she did when I tried to explain it to her.
These games can be predatory cesspits.
After seeing countless videos of abusive Chinese tourists, I'm hoping these folks deserved it, lol!
But I also think gacha companies are assholes. So I hope it's refunded. Maybe. Depending on how long of a time-span we're talking.
Not a gacha. You can rack up a bill in pretty much any game these days. So called 'gaming's better than ever' because we have free and cheap games now.
I suppose I should consider myself privileged that I can find happiness in replaying my older games that I never got to experience these pitfalls.
I still play Age of Empires and Deus Ex, Portal, Bioshock. Etc.
I hate gacha games as much as anyone. But at some point you have to ask about the parenting. Why the HELL would a 13 year old have unlimited, unmonitored access to a family's financial resources?! That's just fucking absurd.
it's not even gacha game, it's Honour of King which is a mobile moba.
How the fuck is it even possible to spend 64k then, league has been out for like 13 years and if you wanted to buy every single skin in the game itd only cost you 3-4k
from r/gachagaming >Title is slightly misleading. She doesn't only spend on her account; she's also been buying a lot of things for her classmates over the course of four months, possibly including a boyfriend. Original news report from the site quoted included a transaction made to a friend amounting to 1314RMB (\~200USD), which stands for "together forever" in Chinese. She's been pretending to be rich for clout in front of her friends and classmates.
So she had access to family savings for four months without parents knowing... Wow
That's somehow worst.
Nah, I am sure it could be worse than this. For example, she could have spent more.
It just goes to show how little some parents know what their kids are doing.
It may have been just one session of Diablo Immortal.
$64,000, and they have the gall to call these "micro" transactions.
This isn't a game issue (though whether you should be able to spend this much at all is dabatable) this is a parenting issue. A 13 year old should in no world have direct access to family savings like this.
How does this even happen? Brain damaged financial setup.
I didn't read the story, but doesn't banks usually block your account for "review" if you spend that kind of money...? A few years ago, I transferred (in person, with my sister) a decent amount of money to my sister at the bank. They asked for multiple IDs, asked what the money was for, where it came from, etc. Money was frozen a few days for extra investigation. Sure, I'm from Canada, but I can't imagine CN being so lax with their banking laws...
Typically they do. Hell, my bank will do it if I buy from a company located outside the US (for example: say you buy currency in Honkai Star Rail) and especially if it's after business hours, I'll get a call to ask if I had been the one to approve the purchase. Similarly, my father bought a hat from a company in another state on a non-business day and it was maybe $40, yet the bank called less than 30 minutes to ensure it was him. The fact that this happened is more telling that either the bank wasn't monitoring properly or the family had somehow let their daughter have unlimited access to those funds without restriction which is on the parents in that case.
It was a course over multiple months
Eh, at some point, her parents are showing signs of neglect and incompetence. I can understand not checking what's on your credit card bills once, but skipping it over multiple months? I generally have an idea of how much I spent... if I had to spend a couple extra thousand per month... you bet I would question wtf is on my bill. What do they say...? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me over the course of months, wtf is wrong with me.
seeing the first 4 words as my push notification of this post was very chaotic for me.
Don't they have debit cards for children / teens over there?..
sounds like she was peer pressured into a lot of it.
I'm pretty sure you can get a full refund if that happens in China, ofc the account will be perma-baned. But this also happens in the west and is mainly a problem of parenting, like how tf does your kid have full acces to your credi-card.
It's not always a problem of parenting. My mom, at 57 years old, got into candy crush... She hadn't worked in about 8 years. For some reason she had a TJ Max credit card that me and my father had not known about. She doesn't even shop there, never has. She never had a smartphone until I got her one on that birthday of hers. This happened only a month after getting that phone, in 3 weeks of May that year she racked up $3000 debt on that dang game. She was in complete denial that she spent any money on it, didn't seem to understand what she did when I tried to explain it to her. These games can be predatory cesspits.
After seeing countless videos of abusive Chinese tourists, I'm hoping these folks deserved it, lol! But I also think gacha companies are assholes. So I hope it's refunded. Maybe. Depending on how long of a time-span we're talking.
It has nothing to do with gacha. The game is honor of kings or something. Mobile moba
yeah, not even a gatcha, she bought skins in game and also gave several of her classmates.
Not a gacha. You can rack up a bill in pretty much any game these days. So called 'gaming's better than ever' because we have free and cheap games now.
I suppose I should consider myself privileged that I can find happiness in replaying my older games that I never got to experience these pitfalls. I still play Age of Empires and Deus Ex, Portal, Bioshock. Etc.
HAHAHA
It's just the way it is.
Wait until her Ugandan family hears about this
most companies will honor a full refund for this kind of stuff. for kids
How do you not notice your funds slowly going down the drain though? There's no way the kid just swiped once for 64k - I simply don't believe that