After spending $10,000 in FIFA, player realizes it’s ‘not worth it’

Over the course of two years, one man from the UK spent $10,000 on FIFA 17 and FIFA 18, only to realize that it was not worth it. At all.

A 32-year-old FIFA player named Michael told Eurogamer that, thanks to the new General Data Protection Regulation in the UK, he was able to go back and take a look at a whole bunch of data EA collected about his play sessions — including the amount of money he spent in the game. He was shocked to find he spent more than $10,000 on the popular soccer game.

Thanks to what Michael describes as his and his wife’s “healthy disposable income,” spending over $10,000 on a single game in two years didn’t really have a noticeable effect on his finances, but looking over the numbers he still wasn’t exactly comfortable with what he saw. Read more…

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