Chris Buffa (Modojo): There's a surprising amount of fun to be had in Gameloft's newest iOS and Android title, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Although the game is pretty straightforward, we created this cheats and tips guide to help you through Ponyville.
K Valentine of Ludos-Mundi.com kills some time.
While waiting for that new Sim City to work, I've taken to casual city building games on my iOs to show off my city planning skills;
Namely, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
Gamer Euphoria writes:
''For last few weeks an English ‘news paper’ (I use the term news very lightly) has been running stories to do with children running up huge bills on Tablets and Smart phones. This weeks story focuses on a 6 year old girl who ran up a bill of £900 though a My Little Pony free game on the iPad. These stories are always from the point of view who someone who seemingly has never used a trail version of a game, or a free to play game with micro-transactions. This story is no different.
The bare bones of the story is that a mother let her child play on the iPad. The child clicked a ‘buy now option’ which of course resulted in the child spending her mother money. After the mother seen the £900 bill she freaked out and contacted iTunes and received a refund. The mother lashed out by saying:''
First sentence repulses me. This writer needs to study the history of Journalism before spouting out stupid shit and definitely before attempting to be a journalist.
No one is, or trying to be a journalist. The site is run by a handful of people who do it purely as a hobby. This also means editor like roles are carried out by those with little to no experience in the role. Mistakes happen.
Good to see you are writing real stories and not top 5 lists or doom headlines.
Ontopic - Parents need to be educated on what they buy so they know the hazards and how to avoid them. Sadly most just see a new babysitter and run with it.
Think it'll get worse before it gets better.
I think you are defending the wrong person with this article. Imho the people who are creating F2P games and aim at a very young audience are criminal. There's no two ways about it.
You are taking the easy way out by demonizing the sun and blaming the mother.
Mum sounds like an attention whore... Bet she made those purchases herself to get in the paper.
I can't think of any logical reason for a parent to share ANY of their passwords with their child, especially if their credit card is tied to it.
It's not like the game just says "Buy Now" and BOOM, instant $300 charge... You have to enter your password and proceed through purchase/checkout screens, where it clearly states a DOLLAR amount of the purchase and that refunds will not be given.
There's virtually no way you can "accidentally" do this.
Apple shouldn't have refunded.
It's sometimes too easy to spend money on these type of games.
They have ''click here to pay money for'' plastered all over.
This is why developers are loving "fee's to play" style games. Its not that everyone will spend 900 dollars on a game, but the ability to do it. 900 dollars for an even more half arsed game, or 60 dollars then milk with DLC? You tell people "hey its free" then they will spend money on your fee's.
LazyGamer: It was a hot Jozi day when Geoff called me into his office, as he sat there sweating away in his leather chair, slowly fusing to it. “Brenda”, he said while I slowly gritted my teeth hard enough to crack some fillings, “I’ve got a game for you to review. In fact, you’re the only sub-humanoid on the team I can trust with this. Are you bronie enough for a freemium game by the name of…My Little Pony?” I looked Geoff straight in the nipples, and replied with a steely “You know I am”, before I proceeded to take a hard swig of tea with only two spoons of sugar in it from my She-Ra: Princess of power mug. “You damn well know I am, Geofferoo”. What followed next, was the darkest couple of hours of my life.
