{"id":113785,"date":"2016-12-13T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113785"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:55:10","slug":"gamer-spends-over-1000000-on-free-to-play-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/113785-gamer-spends-over-1000000-on-free-to-play-mobile-game","title":{"rendered":"Gamer spends over $1,000,000 on &#8220;free-to-play&#8221; mobile game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year old California-based man has admitted to spending an estimated $1 million on mobile title Game of War: Fire Age, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/game-of-war-one-million-dollars-in-app-purchases-735481\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Authority<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The man was able to afford the massive amount of microtransactions after embezzling over $5 million from his heavy-equipment company \u2018Holt California\u2019 between May 2008 to March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the rest of the embezzled money on plastic surgery and American Football season tickets.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the only one dropping big money however, according to a recent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/04\/01\/game-of-wars-paying-players-spent-an-average-of-550-on-its-in-app-purchases-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">report from VentureBeat, <\/a><\/strong>Game of War \u201cdraws an average of $549.69 per paying user [per year].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s more than any other mobile game, and that\u2019s enough to make the game one of the top-grossing apps in the $34.8 billion gaming business on iOS and Android.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game currently offers options to purchase in-game consumable from between $1.99 to $399.99 per item, with no limit on how much can be spent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/99916-mobile-gaming-is-more-important-than-playstation-4-and-xbox-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile gaming is more important than PlayStation 4 and Xbox One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year old California-based man has admitted to spending an estimated $1 million on mobile title Game of War: Fire Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[31,23765,23767],"class_list":["post-113785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-game-of-war","tag-mariah-carey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113789,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113785\/revisions\/113789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}