Official Apple Games Thread

[AstroBlue]

lol @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2011020706437

"We find consumer complaints of children inadvertently purchasing in-app content lamentable," Capcom Interactive said in a statement. It said it does not try to take advantage of children, having been in the comics and gaming business for 25 years. But the iTunes practice of remembering passwords has created problems for Capcom game users, it said.

We totally didn't mean to make a game free but have useless in-game purchases as a way of profiteering. It was the guys' fault that allowed you to log on and play the game in the way we intended it to.


What a piece of shit. I mean it's bad enough Blizzard make you pay $10 to change your characters name, but at least there would be SOME cost (like 5c) in the administration of doing such a thing. These bait games require them to do NOTHING, there is ZERO cost to the publisher.

[Detour]

See, I'm calling bullshit. Not only do iOS devices forget Apple ID passwords after 5 minutes, there's also a really robust and granular set of parental controls built right fucking into it. My kid has an iPad, and if he were to run up a thousand bucks on the app store, it'd be my own fucking fault.

Also, not all in-app purchases are useless 'BUY MORE MOJO' shit. I actually appreciate devs using the in-app purchase system in reasonable and helpful ways. Space Miner Blast for instance, is free to download and play, but you can drop 1.99 for retina graphics and some new ships, and they make it very clear that you're 'donating' to the dev as an act of goodwill. Even the big guys like Gameloft are getting in on it - Starfront being free to download and play the first 4 missions, then an IAP for the full game.

Fuck lazy parents, basically.

[Yoshi]

Detour is completely right. People, and especially parents, need to take some responsibility.

[MechDeus]

See, I'm calling bullshit. Not only do iOS devices forget Apple ID passwords after 5 minutes, there's also a really robust and granular set of parental controls built right fucking into it.

And even though the episodes served as lessons about supervision on the gadgets, other parents point to loopholes. After a password is inserted, Apple allows a 15-minute window for purchases and downloads without having to reenter the password.

Brent Goldberg, a software engineer in Riverside, Calif., thought he took all the right precautions. He looked through the Dolphin Play game his two elementary-school-age sons asked to download and read through the description. It looked appropriate for his children and he knew they would be protected from doing much else on the game without a password.

He downloaded the game without knowing about the 15-minute password window.

In that time, his two boys spent $52 buying coins to play with dolphins on the game. The sons said they knew they were making purchases but they thought it was "computer money," Goldberg said.

I have definitely seen shit for sale for real money in some iPhone games that was pretty well disguised from appearing that way, they are purposefully shady about that shit sometimes. I have yet to accidently spend any cash that way, but it's not really hard to see how a lot of apps aimed at children can dupe some people.

More to the point: Actual cash money should be the listing for everything in virtual stores. None of this spacebucks shit or whatever.

[K3V]

Turn on airplane mode before you hand the thing over to your kid. Problem solved.

[Yoshi]

More to the point: Actual cash money should be the listing for everything in virtual stores. None of this spacebucks shit or whatever.

This. You know everything else is designed to be misleading.

[Josh]

Beat your children. Problem solved.

[Dyne]

Any good review sites out there (I'm slowly wading through this thread)? Infinity Blade is a given but beyond that I'm pretty overwhelmed at the selection right now (not to mention all the non-game apps).

[icarusfall]

Toucharcade.com

[AaronChance]

Toucharcade.com

Terrible site for reviews. They love everything, even games that are utter shit.

There are actually no good ios review sites. Best to find a list of games that interest you and ask around if they're any good.