Just when you think Micro-transactions in Mobile games can't get any worse, some Japanese dude spends $6000 on in-game currency, in an attempt to win a character from an in-game slot machine.
The Free-to-Play RPG Granblue Fantasy, which is available on iOS and Android for free, was holding a new-year's sale, which supposedly doubled the chances of winning rare items and characters. There is a particular character that everyone wants named Anchira, so naturally, lots of people went out of their way to empty their wallets in order to increase the chances of getting this particular character.
One player, by the name of "Taste" goes and spends up to $6000 on in-game Crystals, ($2.79 each BTW,) in a successful bid to win the character. Naturally, this pissed off many of the other players, many of whom only spent thousands of dollars, which prompted the game developer Cygames to issue an apology. Lots of players received a refund, but in the form of in-game currency.
An escapistmagazine.com user correctly pointed out the following:
"So a man trying to get an item that has a drop rate of 3% from a micro-transaction purchase ended up spending 6,000$US in over 2200 attempts to get the item he wanted.
Something to note is how stupendously unlucky this man is. With a drop rate of 3%, at 2200 consecutive failed attempts to get the item, his odds of getting that in a row is 7.9e-30 percent, or 0.0000000000000000000000000000079%. That's half way to being a statistical impossibility."
The fact that someone spent anywhere near $6000 on an item with a 3% drop rate further emphasizes the futility of this type of micro-transaction.
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