After one too many parents complained about their children making expensive in-app purchases, Apple has announced it will refund at least $36 million to U.S. customers. The hardware giant will also change the way the App Store works, hopefully preventing kids from racking up huge bills in future.
Retro gaming console emulator apps are now welcome on the Apple App Store and can even offer downloadable games.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Epic Games winning its cases against both Apple and Google is shaping the way forward for the future of mobile gaming.
I feel alot of mobile gamers are kids which will at some point probably turn to console or pc. Mobile gaming just doesn't cut it for me.
They shouldn't have to pay back anything. The parents need to be more careful not to let their kids play anything that has their credit card info on it.
I've played this game. It is ridiculous that a single car add-on costs $50. So it could easily be perceived an ill design to snare cash from immature players. The in app purchases offer poor value IMO. I mean $50 is the cost of a full production console game on a sale weekend... but for one car?! GTFO.
Need to thank all these legal pirates that rob people legally too. These game dev are really the virus and trogans or gaming industry. Imagine the original Angry Bird cost only $1 and you have a full working game. But these days they pump out everything with f2p + microtransactions in them. It is just a legit scam
Blame the parents if you like. But the way I see it mobile devs absolutely love nickel and diming everyone.
Also, if something is quite clearly bullshit, it's bullshit. If you guys are telling me someone buying a BOX of a product they want(near launch of said product) and feeling like they got suckered because it's only the box, regardless of what is the item description that a pretty dick move on the seller's part to have that item up for sale, no?
Why would parents get so mad? Apple already swindled them when they bought an iPhone.