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Daughter Uses Dad's Card For SGD20,000 Worth Of In-Game Purchases
15 mins·19:00, 3 Jan 2022
Daughter Uses Dad's Card For SGD20,000 Worth Of In-Game Purchases
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19:00, 3 Jan 2022
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Guest: Jonathan Leo, Content Director, Kakuchopurei.com
A dad in Singapore discovered his daughter had made online transactions worth RM61, 936 to upgrade her avatar in the mobile game Genshin Impact. We look at the details of this discovery and the larger questions around microtransactions in games that this brings up.
Image source: Courtesy of miHoYo
Presenter: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sharmilla Ganesan
Producer: Natasha Fusil
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