If you thought you were addicted to FarmVille, think again. According to The Guardian, a women (who wishes to remain anonymous) discovered her son had spent £900 on FarmVille items, without her permission.
The boy allegedly spent £288 of his own savings, and user his mother's credit card to the remaining tune of £625.
"The first use of my card was on 14 March. I discovered it on the 29th and the card was stopped at that point. Any transactions after that date were already in the system, so what I thought was a £427 spend turned into £625 over the next few days, the mother said.
"The total spend is about £905, but the credits are still rolling in. Facebook and [game creator] Zynga will not refund anything as [the son] lives in my house. Facebook has disabled his account and Zynga has unhelpfully suggested I use password protection on computers in the future."
When the son was confronted about his FarmVille spending spree, he simply said Zynga had brought out 'good stuff that I wanted'. The parent believes he knew exactly what he was doing, and to be fair, we are inclined to agree. Most kids are probably more technologically minded than adults these days.
A spokeswomen for the bank HSBC said that had the credit been used on a gambling site, it would've been picked up as "unusual usage," but because the transactions were for Facebook credits, even though a sizeable amount in a short space of time, it wasn't deemed suspicious.
Zynga, HSBC nor Facebook is not to blame the mother added, but, "I do think they need to shoulder some responsibility in this business and put systems in place to stop this happening again. The fact that he was using a card in a different name should bring up some sort of security and the online secure payment filter seems to be bypassed for Facebook payments."
The moral of the story? Don't give your kids your credit details, much like before. It's potentially financial suicide.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Wow. Who would even spend a penny on this?
i want to see his farm!
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