Mateo Ferrero
Mobile editor · Buenos Aires
Mateo Ferrero writes from Buenos Aires, where he has covered free-to-play economies since 2019. He came to the subject the expensive way: a brief, regrettable stretch as a whale taught him exactly how the math behind a "limited-time" offer works, and what it costs when you don't stop to read it.
He's since become the person friends text before they tap buy. Almost every offer that calls itself limited comes back eventually — he has years of screenshots to prove it — and he keeps a quiet archive of recurring sales so he can tell you whether waiting two weeks will save you real money or just your pride.
Off the clock he's a lapsed competitive player with strong, frequently unsolicited opinions about battle-pass pacing, and a weakness for any game that respects the time he puts into it.