In Singapore, my father receives a call from a bank about a delay in payment of 13,000 euros. Her daughter successfully made purchases using her credit card in Genshin Impact.
Many video games today offer a free-to-play model. The game itself is free to play, but the developers make money from in-game ads and/or microtransactions. We have already heard several stories about parents who received bills of several thousand euros, most often because of a child who does not necessarily know what he is doing.
In Singapore, my father receives a call from a bank about a delay in payment of 13,000 euros.
Unfortunately for the Singaporean father, his 18-year-old daughter has managed to spend a rather insane amount of SGD 20,000, or around €13,050, on in-app purchases on the ultra-popular Genshin Impact. This is reported by the Straits Times. The father received a call from the bank and was informed that he had received an unpaid payment of 13,000 euros.
Her daughter successfully made purchases using her credit card in Genshin Impact.
The purchases were made after the daughter was able to get her father’s Grab account (the Asian equivalent of Uber) and link it to her gaming account. The father in question originally lent his card. Credit to her daughter to cover shipping costs when using Grab, but being able to link her Grab account to the game allowed her to make in-app purchases directly.
The good news is that the father was able to get back half of the money he spent, which is already good, even if it means that more than 6,000 euros were still “lost”in the video game. According to lawyer Lionel Tan, since the girl was 18 years old, which is the legal age for concluding contracts, it is difficult to argue that she did not know what she was doing.