Yes your kid did wrong, but man loot boxes are really fucked. All the addiction of gambling targeted at the most impressionable.
Limited time Events are the worst because everyone wants that one holiday or event skin and don't realize how much they spend trying to get it.
take a sledgehammer to his xbox and make him watch no, make him do it then buy him a ps4 like a civilized person
My nephew did similar but I have never gotten a straight answer on how much it was total He is 16 My sister is looking to send him away somewhere
Look at Crawford v. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Case No. 3:20-cv-01732-LB, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
They not only know what they are doing they openly flaunt it and encourage /teach other companies to do it.
This is where I’m at with it. He’s not excused for his malfeasance at all. But I think it’s fair to be rightfully pissed at Fortnite, too, for designing these games in a way that attracts the most impressionable population to spend uncontrollably. And there’s really ZERO reason they can’t either flag an account that spends over a certain amount in a small window of time, or that they can’t refund shit like Vbucks. They’re assholes.
the aforementioned father also did this to me and my brother's marijuana bowl after he found it in the back of our car one summer home from college. Literally yelled "Game Changer" and smashed that son-of-a-bitch to pieces on our backyard picnic table. In hindsight his laissez faire attitude to our teen drinking is probably what led to us being somewhat reckless with the weed. Either way it didn't work. Those things really aren't expensive and we just bought another one a few days later.
Really? See, this is the type of info I was hoping for. I’m in damage control mode at this point. I just want to recoup something.
My dad broke my bowl when he found it and I just made a new one out of his 10mm craftsmen socket a pen and screens from the kitchen sink
Yeah. I don’t know the logistics but people sell Fortnite accounts all the time. You’d have to include his epic log in and maybe attach a new email account to it but it can be done
if i had 1k vbucks for every time ive taken a screen out of a faucet i could sell my account for more than tibs kid
So what's the 1927 Yankees murderers row ball he can convince a blind guy to give him that would lessen the punishment? I'm guessing selling his account/avatar.
Absolutely you should sell his account with that amount of currency you could get at least a couple hundred plus just from that.
A buddy of mine sold his ff14 account for like 4 grand iirc. It was as maxed out as you could get (guild owner, all maxed toons, all maxed craft and gathering, large amounts of in game materials and currency and several high end class weapons)
OP, I think you're doing the right thing and I'm glad you're not the dad (like others suggested) that want to go to extremes. This kid fucked up bad, and he knows he fucked up bad, but he'll be better off for you dealing with it in a rational, non-emotional sense and making him work it off than he would be if you blew his XBox up in front of him. He's also 9, so he probably didn't fully grasp how quickly money adds up, or how much money $2000 actually is. It's no excuse, but it's a reality. The lootbox thing is a whole separate issue, and one that's really interesting. Those systems are incredibly manipulative and deliberately so. I'm surprised that more situations like this haven't led to outrage among parents such that it's more highly regulated. It is absolutely gambling, and it's purposely made addictive in all the way slot machines are. It's nuts that we let kids have access to those systems but require you to be 18 to go into a casino. My only real experience was getting addicted to the lootbox system in FIFA Ultimate Team before finally realizing I wasn't even enjoying the game, just addicted to the gambling aspect of it. I barely spent any actual money on the boxes (though I did spend some), but would take hours of my day to complete the challenges, log in and play a few games every day just to get the rewards, etc.
My mom found a nasty gravity bong in the storage room when I was home from college the summer after freshman year. Having never done a drug in her life, and subsequently knowing nothing about them, she assumed it was used for smoking crack and had a complete and total meltdown thinking that she had failed at parenting. It took me a while to convince her it was for smoking weed, and even after that she still thought she failed at parenting, just not as much. She did learn after that to call me whenever she was coming to visit, be it in college or after.
I feel that I should feel bad but it’s funny and I just am smiling. Shit I lied about my 2 youngest ages when I set up their iPhones and Apple accounts so I’d get a notification about approving their apps. Rookie mistake OP.
lucky you my mom would have assumed (probably still would today) that weed and crack are pretty much the same thing
If you know where/who to sell the accounts to sure, but I'm assuming El Tiburon likely has no clue on those aspects of fortnite, typically account selling is illegal in most games, the ones that do get sold are mostly done w/ 3rd party sites, some of which are pretty shady.
I mean, I think he’s just looking for options here. I gave him an idea and now it’s up to him to make it work
My advice is don't bother trying to sell the account, you probably have no idea what you're even selling or how much you're suppose to be selling it for. Try to get the money back from microsoft via disputes if you can, if you can't then delete the account and deal with your son how you have been.
your kid's gonna get fucking jacked from all this exercise and super smart from all the book learnin' and end up bullying you and your wife into giving him more money both physically and mentally
https://www.playerauctions.com/sell-fortnite-account/ true that, i made some money selling accts back in the day
Bricktop the white can prob give explain better, but at least in dota a lot of the people who spend a shit ton of money on accounts/in game purchases are middle eastern and southeast asian dudes with a LOT of money
I was pissed when my almost 4yr old spent £100 on Fortnite earlier this year. $2000 and he'd be up for adoption. Just bare in mind that one day, you'll look back at this and laugh. It'll also make an entertaining dinner party conversation.
Right? My son was on chatroulette earlier this year and wound up getting scammed by some dude for over $300. Needless to say, he won't be getting anything for his sixth birthday!