Friendship is Expensive: 6-Year Old Drops 900 Bucks on MLP Game
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[QUOTE=Ridge;39882198]Cheaper to rent
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i'm going to sue the parents to PETA for applying make-up on a poor pony
Back when I was a kid, there was basically no risk of this happening anyway.
I remember when you paid 30 dollars for a fucking game, and never had to pay another cent on it.
People are idiots. Why would you even play this in-game purchase shit?
I fucking hate apps like this. If I see a message about Ingame money for real money I usually uninstall it. So annoying having a message pop up every 2 minutes.
Why does apple have to pay them back? Shouldn't the developers/publishers have to do that?
[QUOTE=wilson23;39890643]I fucking hate apps like this. If I see a message about Ingame money for real money I usually uninstall it. So annoying having a message pop up every 2 minutes.
Why does apple have to pay them back? Shouldn't the developers/publishers have to do that?[/QUOTE]
apple likely revoked the amount set to be paid to the developer before that goes out. Devs usually get checks for their cut (usually pretty small compared to what the store keeps) after certain dollar milestones or time periods. If money had already gone to them, it's likely they'd just take it out of their future checks.
and I think ads/popups in games are terrible. Angry birds is an awful offender, the free version pops up an ad that blocks your view, and makes a full page slide every now and again that you have to get rid of, so your only options are to wait it out, try and carefully tap little X buttons on ads or hit the back button to get out of that giant slide, or pay the dollar for the ad-free version. They likely get more money out of you for ads than the one dollar paid version, especially if you accidentally tap them now and again
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;39887054]If they can't watch their kids and can't pay to have someone watch their kids, and then their kids do this, should they have had kids?[/QUOTE]
I can only speak for myself on this one.The ipad is a great tool when you need 20-30 minutes to get shit done, and you know that Thomas the train or Mickey mouse game can get you there.
Whoever posted the screen shot for turning off in app purchases is awesome. I was aware that some games had a "rape the parents iTunes" function, and I really haven't invested much time in the settings section of the iPad.
I'd love to know how shit like this isn't fraudulent false advertising at the least, downright theft at the most.
[QUOTE=Ridge;39882198]Cheaper to rent
[video=youtube;b3Ql6C9CeWc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ql6C9CeWc[/video][/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;wXfFO2DV860]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfFO2DV860[/video]
[QUOTE=Murkrow;39877114]On one hand, calling games with microtransactions (especially kids games) "free to play" is just evil because it's misleading parents into a false sense of security, and then mislead users by perhaps using some arbitrary coinage which is then converted into actual money.
On the other hand, just having credit card data entered like that without any need for confirmation is a bit stupid on its own. Not that I know exactly how that system works since I've never used an ipad, but I imagine it's just got a "Confirm payment" screen and everyone would naturally click it. I prefer cumbersome reentering of password/data every time for the sake of safety. Obvioulsy not everyone wants that, but that's the price to pay.[/QUOTE]
There usually is a password to download games and transactions. I'm not sure how the kids are getting pass the password.
[quote]Friendship is Expensive: 6-Year Old Drops 900 Bucks on MLP Game[/quote]
900 USD =/= 900 GBP.
$900 = £603.
£900 = $1341.
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