A 17-year-old reportedly spent $25,000 on Monopoly GO in-app purchases. While the game itself is free, many users have found themselves spending a worrying amount on the game to unlock rewards and progress quicker than they can without buying anything. These microtransactions can add up quickly, as the parents of one Monopoly GO player have learned all too well.
The teenager is far from the first person to spend too much money on the app. One user claimed they spent $1,000 in Monopoly GO before finally deleting it. That's already an impressive amount of cash for a free-to-play title, but it's less than 5% of what one unlucky family just discovered they've unwittingly sunk into it.
Some Monopoly GO players are getting free tokens as compensation for technical issues that affected certain rewards from the Marvel GO album.
In a now-deleted post, a Reddit user claimed their 17-year-old step-daughter spent $25,000 on 368 Monopoly GO purchases via the App Store. The stepparent came to Reddit looking for advice on how to handle the issue, but the news doesn't look good for them. Many users in the comments said Monopoly GO's terms of service hold users...
