10 BRUTAL Video Game Punishments For Being Too Greedy

10. A Wish Gone Wrong - The Sims 2

Earning money is a crucial part of The Sims 2. Typically, it means finding a job and slowly climbing your way to the top, but if you're too impatient and lazy for that, there are actually shortcuts for getting filthy rich fast: wishes!

If you own the Seasons expansion, your Sim can come into the possession of your very own wishing well by joining and impressing the Garden Club.

Unlike genies, the well allows you to make an unlimited amount of wishes, and one of them is a money wish, which spawns a giant sack of Simoleons every time it's triggered.

Continuous use of the wish can make your Sim the richest person in town without ever having to get a job, but you shouldn't let this get to your head, as the game might punish you for abusing the wishing well mechanic.

Frequently wishing upon the well increases the chances of the wishes going awry, and if you finally trigger a negative outcome, a bag of Simoleon will drop from the sky… but right onto your Sim's head this time!

The accident kills them instantly, but hey, at least they died doing what they loved: getting filthy rich.