How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by jrs99 on Saturday February 01, 2014 @12:36PM (#7162371)

If you make that an option, then children might not spend $500 on their sword upgrades.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by derefr on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:02PM (#7162512)

What child has $500? "Whales" are adults. (Usually, specifically, they are people in high-stress/high-reward jobs, like finance, who want to release their stress by throwing out their rewards. Same as casinos.)

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by manthgre on Saturday February 01, 2014 @02:12PM (#7162924)

Children use their parent's phone, there were a spate of cases recently where children's apps had a ton of expensive in-app purchases and hooked children ran up $2000-$3000 Bills

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by aestra on Sunday February 02, 2014 @08:36AM (#7165929)

This happened to a friend of mine. Her grandson only 4 was able to make many in app purchases to the turn of hundreds of dollars.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by fbags on Saturday February 01, 2014 @03:06PM (#7163155)

They're mostly addicts who still have room left on one of their credit cards.

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