Would you pay 680 dollars for playing a game? And 800? To the majority it can seem an absurd question to us, but there are people who are letting themselves drag by these prices. Like Alie Badillo , the woman who a couple of years ago left about $ 1,000 playing Candy Crush. Or also like the players who, according to an EA worker, have been able to spend up to $ 15,000 on the Mass Effect.
Admission, of course, is not immediate. Nobody would go to a store to leave a month’s salary for an entertainment that will last a few weeks or a few months. The issue is that these payments are camouflaged, fractioned. They are the microtransactions, the pay to win or, as they are being popularized by the enormous controversy of the new Star Wars Battlefront , the loot boxes .