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    Free to play games are misleading users

    The EU Commission has revealed plans to scrutinise games on mobiles and tablets that allow in-app purchases, often resulting in large credit bills for users

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    Children and teenagers have been identified as being at risk of inadvertently charging purchases to a registered credit card.
    How do you let your kids have access to that information?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iam3G View Post
    How do you let your kids have access to that information?
    Yeah if you give your kids your google password then you should "kak en betaal" for being a dumbass.

    Hell I won't even give my wife my password!

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    I'd love it if there was a setting to only show truly free games in the app store (in app ads I don't mind). It is frustrating when Kid 44 asks me to help her download something and 10 minutes later tells me it doesn't work because she wanted something that need to be purchased.

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    As far as I know if you're using an Apple device, you have to link your credit card to make use of the store at all. I remember signing up for iTunes a few years back and it wouldn't let me sign up on my iPod without linking a credit card.

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    There was a story a couple days ago about a UK teenage boy hanging himself because he felt bad for spending 420 on games on his xbox.I cant see how parents let there kids use there credit card carte blanche.
    Here is a link to that article.
    https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rc...62286460,d.ZGU

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    Quote Originally Posted by XbatousaiX View Post
    There was a story a couple days ago about a UK teenage boy hanging himself because he felt bad for spending 420 on games on his xbox.I cant see how parents let there kids use there credit card carte blanche.
    Here is a link to that article.
    https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rc...62286460,d.ZGU
    That sounds like he had some sort of issue, I'm sure his parents would just have made him do a ton of chores to pay it back.
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    Well it is still the parents responsibility. I would however like to see a law brought into affect for companies that bill you for no good reason, claiming you subscribed to something when you didn't and then charging you for that without ever sending you a bill or any proof of you signing up for the shit.

    Would love to sue the living shit out of them.
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    Seems like it is purely just "Idiot Tax"

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    Quote Originally Posted by XbatousaiX View Post
    There was a story a couple days ago about a UK teenage boy hanging himself because he felt bad for spending 420 on games on his xbox.I cant see how parents let there kids use there credit card carte blanche.
    Here is a link to that article.
    https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rc...62286460,d.ZGU
    So essentially suicide over electronic mishaps is this generations' version of deaths over Pokemon cards/tazos

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