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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I think a small child may well realise not what is happening, but every in-app purchase, no matter how it is represented in-game, triggers a standard system confirmation popup saying exactly what the cost would be.
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and tap, it's gone and the kid is back in the game using those coins/strawberries/buckets of stars until they run out and want some more or decide to stock up on loads at once.
The first time the parents may know about it may well be when the email confirmations start to arrive (I don't think they're immediate but delayed and batched) or when they next check their CC.
Even if a parent who is supervising their kid and glancing at the phone now and then plus listening out to make sure they're still playing the game and not doing something they shouldn't, would likely miss the confirmation prompts as they're easily dismissed.
The only way to stop this if a kid is given access to the phone at an age where they may not comprehend the meaning of every screen, is to ensure IAP is disabled and a password forced for each purchase, however most parents (unless they've seen this news report
) won't know that's needed and the defaults won't offer them much protection.
If I've misunderstood what you were saying, and you meant that whilst a kid might make the mistake, an adult shouldn't then I agree. Although sometimes so many popups occur that people get used to dismissing them. Still their fault for not reading it, unless the game happens to use an in-game currency then people may mistake the confirmation dialogue as buying using the in-game money and not real money.
I can understand why Amazon and Apple try to avoid the password entry requirement though, I bet the number of refunds they have to do is far smaller than the amount they'd lose to people changing their minds when they've to enter their pass, or forgetting their pass and deciding it's not worth looking it up right now.