Kotaku has had entry to this UK report on immersive and addictive technologies, which details the event of a victim of microtransactions possessed by RuneScape, from the Jagex research. Particularly, the report describes"a member of the people whose adult child accumulated substantial debts" As indicated, this player spent more than 50,000 lbs on such micropayments (roughly 60,000 euros) in just 1 year.

This debt"caused considerable financial damage" into the OSRS gold household. For its own part, Jagex was not able to take"direct steps" in response to parental issues due to"data protection problems."

Since Plomer indicates, RuneScape players"can potentially spend around 1000 lbs weekly or 5000 pounds a month," that would amount to about 1128 euros and nearly 6000 euros, respectively. All that, prior to the limit of the company prevents them from creating purchases that are . Apparently, this limit is designed to stop intense fraud, which implies that, indirectly, it helped this family to create even larger debt only by chance.

RuneScape's microtransactions fit, in addition, in the Buy Runescape gold definition of loot box: it has a system named Treasure Hunter, with treasure chests that offer a random loot within them. The keys to start these chests are bought with money. Oh, and also the items that players get can provide them advantages over other consumers, as Kotaku echoes.Runescape also offers other types of micropayments: battle moves, subscriptions and other premium supplies. However, as observed in the analysis of microtransactions, it would be the cited chests that most affect the players.