In-game purchases in video-games: gambling 2.0

In recent years the video-game community has been bombarded with multiplayer games like Fortnite and League of Legends as well as games from big productions by companies of the likes of Electronic Arts and Activision featuring a substantial amount of downloadable content and in-game purchases. Sometimes worth not even a dollar, the term for this is a micro transaction which is a small financial transaction conducted online. This has become controversial because of the addictive nature of it. Pan European Game Information (PEGI), an organisation with the purpose of establishing the age…