Australians are spending more than $1 billion a year on virtual items in video games, fuelling a boom in the industry | TheMattBungard
Australians are spending more than $1 billion a year buying virtual items in video games, fuelling a boom in the industry.
"It's another form of media where people will invest, like Netflix or Spotify": Ron Curry, from the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association.Associate Professor Charles Livingstone, who is a gambling researcher at Monash University's school of public health, said video games used random rewards and "flashing lights and bells and whistles" to keep people playing, just like poker machines.
Mr Curry said there were tools for parents to restrict in-game spending and the time that children spend playing games. Meanwhile, it was a "perfectly acceptable way" for adults to spend their disposable income. Mr Duncan had played FIFA games for more than 20 years and Ultimate Team for about five years but didn't spend real money on it until this year.
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