Europe is taking a closer look at how some of the biggest video game companies are making their money.

Good morning, I'm Leanna Byrne and this is the Marketplace Morning Report and we're live from the BBC World Service.

A Consumer Rights Group along with more than... and we're live from the BBC World Service.

A Consumer Rights Group, along with more than 20 European Union countries,

has accused game developers behind popular titles like Fort Knight and

Minecraft of tricking players into spending more cash than they might

realize to tell us more.

Here's the BBC's Mariko Oi hello hello.

Hello.

Mariko was there anything specific that triggered this investigation by Europe's Consumer Rights Group?

I think it's fair to say that gaming addiction, especially among young children, has been an

ongoing issue that not just the European Union, but also other governments have been looking into.

And in this instance, they have accused some of the biggest video game developers.

So we're talking about the makers of... some of the biggest video game developers.

So we're talking about, you know, the makers of very popular games like Fort Knight and

Minecraft.

They're accusing those gaming giants of basically deliberately tricking players into spending more money because I'm not sure if you're a

gamer I am not but I have been learning a lot and you actually don't spend your real money or

rather you're spending your real money but

you're not actually sure how much exactly you're spending because you're only looking

at the in-game virtual currencies value and as a result if you are a very young gamer and you know if you get

really obsessed with it and if you just want to buy this token or gem or whatever you want to get

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