8 Insane Things Video Game Developers Charged Money For

4. Actual Levels - Tales Of Vesperia

So if you're a fan of JRPGs, you’ve likely grown accustomed to certain things: storylines that revolve around collecting x magic McGuffins to stop an evil force usually known as The Empire, protagonists with edgelord stylings, women with improbable busts, and everyone's favourite thing: grinding.

It’s par for the course to spend hours levelling up your chosen hero by beating up small fry, hell some games even reward you for it with special items and achievements. But then along comes Tales of Vesperia to ruin the curve. For the low, low price of £4, you can boost your boys by 10 levels instantly. You can’t purchase this pack more than once because that would be silly, but you can buy Pack 2, which boosts them by another ten levels. That's much more sensible.

It gets worse when you notice that the devs intentionally made their game give little exp from battles, so that paying for levels almost becomes tempting. If you’re playing a game like this and want a time skip, you’re in the wrong genre pal. Come on.