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UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases

Posted by timothy on from the buy-this-now dept.

hypnosec writes "The UK Government will be examining whether free to download apps are putting unfair pressure on kids to pay up for additional content within the game through in-app purchases. Office of Fair Trading (OFT), UK, will be carrying out the investigation of games that include 'commercially aggressive' in-app purchases after a number of cases have been reported whereby parents have incurred huge bills after their kids have spent huge amounts on in-app purchases."

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  1. Your kid, spending your money . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    . . . should not be the government's problem.

    Ah, parents these days . . . and their children . . . most of the time they're somebody else's problem.

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    1. Re:Your kid, spending your money . . . by cheekyjohnson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      This is myopic, and I bet you are not a parent. In fact I bet you're probably still a kid, with that attitude.

      Everyone who disagrees with me is a kid and/or doesn't have kids! Take that!

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  2. Re:Turning it off is no option? by citizenr · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There's a lot of nasty software out there that is specifically targeted at kids and charges huge amounts for ingame items. My kids are at a young age and they simply do not understand the difference between real cash and virtual ingame cash, to them it's all the same. So if an app says 'do you want to buy this for 99,99 euros', they just tap 'yes'.

    Teach it to your kids then you retard.

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