Before I start, let’s get one thing straight. Love it, hate it, never tried it – it doesn’t matter – Game of War is something of a mobile gaming phenomenon, and there’s no denying that. With the clout to pay for advertising featuring the likes of Mariah Carey and Kate Upton and to advertise during the Super Bowl, you have to have some heavy hitting financial power.
It’s not surprising however when you find out that players spend on average $550 a year playing Game of War buying crates of gold. That’s a staggering amount of money on a mobile game, however when you realize it’s an average of players spending habits there are some people out there who have more money than sense. Either that, or someone has skewed the numbers by embezzling a load of money from their work and spending an absolute fortune on it using company credit cards.
No seriously, after stealing $4.8m from his employer, Mr Kevin Lee Co from Sacramento, California spent the embezzled cash on luxury cars, season tickets to the San Francisco 49ers and Sacramento Kings as well as plastic surgery, golf course membership and home furniture, according to a copy of the plea agreement on Ars Technica.
But as if that wasn’t enough, the somewhat devoted fan of Game of War spent approximately $1,000,000 on the highest grossing mobile game in the world, helping in quite a way to make it that way. You never know, Mr Co’s $1m investment in Game of War may have contributed in some way to this Superbowl advert:
So if that’s the case Mr Co, if you helped to fund the above advert and any other advertising featuring Kate Upton (one of my 5…) then sir, enjoy your maximum 20 years in prison, and start saving that $250,000 maximum fine and do it knowing that you helped in an indirect and probably insignificant way to make Kate Upton dress up as Athena.
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