'My son spent £3,160 in one game'

Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by LanceH on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:18PM (#20444777)

How about the app stores classifying them?

I've tried looking for games I could buy outright. Try finding a game without ads or in app purchases. It is extremely difficult to search by those criteria.

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Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by codebje on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:34PM (#20446562)

I've been trying to find such games for my kids (4 & 6) - there really are no search options to help.

Indiscriminate third party advertising and freemium games are going to cause significant long-term harm to mobile gaming, and possibly also to society as a whole.

There's still some games out there that use IAP in small doses (<10 total) to sell reasonably sized chunks of content, but they don't make the money that freemium games do.

(My own device operates on the same rules as my kids - no third party advertising, no freemium IAP stuff. There's really nothing to miss in that space anyway…)

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Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by ajscanlan on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @09:21AM (#20449743)

Not sure about iOS but on the Play Store you can look in the "Premium" section in Games.

Not all are IAP free, but it seems most of them are.

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Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by lozenge on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:53AM (#20448264)

Try searching the internet instead of those storefronts, you'll get more than enough listicles.

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