[rndgermandude]

I agree it's the mother's fault, but I disagree it's "totally" her fault.

These games are created and finely tuned to addict people into playing but even more so into spending, and a lot of them - including this one by the looks of it - are specifically targeting kids. The microtransactions scheme is designed to make it harder for people to track how much they are actually spending.

To me, this isn't any different then cigarette companies marketing to children. Sonic is the Joe Camel of today, but even more nefarious it seems.

The fault here is surely the fault of the mother, being inattentive to what her kid was doing and inattentive to her finances at least for some time, but it's also the fault of game companies promoting virtual drugs to kids in the first place and a fault of Apple (and Google and other supposedly "curated" stores) acting as a middle man for these drug pushers, proving them financial services and taking their own cut, of course. This game, which is basically digital crack, is on Apple's App Store rated "9+". Right...