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Almost 20% of Japanese people in their 20s have prioritized in-game purchases over paying rent

Japanese banking subsidiary SMBC Consumer Finance’s annual survey of financial awareness in the country’s 20- to 29-year-olds revealed some troubling findings about the demographic’s gaming habits, Automaton reports. For example, 18.8% of the 1,000 respondents admitted to have spending so much on in-game purchases that it affected their ability to cover living expenses. Men (22.8%) […]