2023-05-15 17:15:02
Game news A mother wonders how her 16-year-old son could afford such an expensive laptop. She wasn’t ready for the answer
Uju Anya is surprised when she receives a computer delivered for her son at home. How could he afford it? While she is worried about him, he will tell her how he was able to obtain the necessary money. A method that more than surprised his mother.
He buys a computer… thanks to a video game
Whatever the field, children will always manage to surprise their parents. An affirmation that we can hold without too many doubts for that of the video game. A few months ago, we were talking to you, for example, about this 15-year-old child taken out of school by his mother so that he devotes himself to video games and earning money. Today, it is always a question of recovering money, but not thanks to his talents as a player but rather as a businessman. On Twitter, user Uju Anya tells her story. It all starts when she wonders about the delivery of a 1000 € computer to her home.
A laptop arrived at my house addressed to my 16yo son. I didn’t buy it. I know neither his dad nor my girlfriend did. I sat the boy down. Took the computer, his phone, said I’ll seize his desktop too and ground him indefinitely until he said where he got $1000.
Video game skins.
— Uju Anya (@JujuAnya) May 12, 2023
A laptop addressed to my 16 year old son arrived at my house. I didn’t buy it. I know that neither his father nor my girlfriend bought him. I made the boy sit down. I took the computer, his phone, said I would also seize his desktop computer and punish him indefinitely until he says where he got 1000 dollars.
She then worried about her son and the source of this large sum of money. Drugs, blackmail or coming from a predator giving him money in exchange for something else.
Video game cosmetics to buy a computer
A torment that quickly dissipated when his child told him that he came from… video game cosmetics. Thanks to his pocket money, he bought cosmetics a year ago that he sold recently… for three times their sum! Enough to bail out the wallet to buy a nice new computer so:
Panic as a parent to see my child with crazy money, not know where he got it. I imagined drugs, scamming, predators, etc.
Turns out he’s in the FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR gaming skins market. Showed me records of skins he bought with his allowance a year ago, sold at triple value???????? pic.twitter.com/zgIcO7iUVC
— Uju Anya (@JujuAnya) May 12, 2023
Panic as a parent to see my child with crazy money, without knowing where he found it. I imagined drugs, scams, predators, etc. Turns out he works in the FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR video game skin market. He showed me recordings of skins he bought with his pocket money a year ago, sold at triple their value????????????????.
If the story does not say on which game the teenager succeeded in his investment, it could undoubtedly be Counter Strike: Global Offensive. There is a system of cosmetics (weapons, knives) that players can collect via chests and resell on a digital market place. Not long ago, Valve announced Counter Strike 2. Enough to stimulate enthusiasm for this new opus and therefore the number of players who would like to benefit from weapon cosmetics that they like. The opportunity therefore, for many, to make profits on cosmetics obtained a long time ago.
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