"Super Monster Bros" or: how to lose thousands of dollars by letting a child borrow your iphone for
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I believe if enough people buy the $100 shit from one of these games by accident and request the charges to be cancelled, the creators will end up being blocked by most banks and credit card services. So there is that.
brian altano is hilllarious good vid
is this not a scam
This is one of those games where it took longer to add the in app purchases than it did to create the game itself
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;40413285]this should be illegal.
copyright, and it's just a complete money sink the only purpose of the game is to trick people into give them all their money
isn't this some form of fraud? it has to be[/QUOTE]
Nah it's not a fraud.
Let's see, I have this... ehm. I have this letter "H" scribbled on a piece of paper. I can sell it to you for $1 000. If you buy it, I'm mailing this piece of paper with "H" on it to your place of choice. You got what you paid for, I fulfilled my part. You knew what you were buying, you knew the cost and you accepted it.
In this case you are an immense idiot and I didn't commit something illegal. Everyone's happy, no laws infringed.
This is the same thing. The price is announced and you get what you paid for.
The best thing about this is that it's in Apple's "curated" app-store ecosystem, where nothing wrong ever happens and you have to pay an assload of money just to get your apps in it
[QUOTE=gudman;40416355]Nah it's not a fraud.
Let's see, I have this... ehm. I have this letter "H" scribbled on a piece of paper. I can sell it to you for $1 000. If you buy it, I'm mailing this piece of paper with "H" on it to your place of choice. You got what you paid for, I fulfilled my part. You knew what you were buying, you knew the cost and you accepted it.
In this case you are an immense idiot and I didn't commit something illegal. Everyone's happy, no laws infringed.
This is the same thing. The price is announced and you get what you paid for.[/QUOTE]
dammit that makes perfect sense
it's still such a shame.
now I can really understand how easy it is for parents to lose thousands of bucks if they let their kids play with their iphones for ten minutes
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;40415749]I believe if enough people buy the $100 shit from one of these games by accident and request the charges to be cancelled, the creators will end up being blocked by most banks and credit card services. So there is that.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure it would be removed from the App Store.
[QUOTE=gudman;40416355]Nah it's not a fraud.
Let's see, I have this... ehm. I have this letter "H" scribbled on a piece of paper. I can sell it to you for $1 000. If you buy it, I'm mailing this piece of paper with "H" on it to your place of choice. You got what you paid for, I fulfilled my part. You knew what you were buying, you knew the cost and you accepted it.
In this case you are an immense idiot and I didn't commit something illegal. Everyone's happy, no laws infringed.
This is the same thing. The price is announced and you get what you paid for.[/QUOTE]
if they don't require a credit card number for every purchase then it should be fraudulent. otherwise a kid could just get on and buy shit in their parent's name.
[editline]25th April 2013[/editline]
nvm it's not fraudulent, you're right. it's theft.
[editline]25th April 2013[/editline]
or exploitive.
I love how it even stole the buttons that appear at the end of the level from cut the rope (that or angry birds, either way they're stolen)
honestly this must have a fucking phenomenal effort:profit ratio
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