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:''
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.
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.
Chris Buffa (Modojo): In the spirit of the season, Gameloft released a generous update for its free-to-play adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Available now for iOS and coming to Android December 28, the new content includes additional ponies, decorations, buildings, holiday-themed quests and snow, among other goodies. On top of that, we have a video featuring Ashleigh Bell, the talented voice actor behind characters Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
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.
So thats 2 kids now that have paid too much for a free game.
where is daddy when you need him?
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.