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  1. UK Investigating Microtransactions in Mobile Games Targeted at Kids: Following up on the article about the 6 year old that dropped £900 on the Gameloft pony game, the Office of Fair Trading in the UK is running an investigation on the games that market directly at kids with crazy expensive micro-transactions. I can't imagine pony is the only one that has surprised parents with massive bills. The full article can be >http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/04/uk-investigating-microtransactions-in.html http://ur1.ca/dd52i

    Friday, 12-Apr-13 23:10:06 UTC from Sethisto
    1. @eqdpony "When games such as My Little Pony, which are obviously targeted at young children, bait kids with £69 purchases of a 'mountain of gems', something is going wrong in the system." just putting a quote from the mentioned article out there

      Friday, 12-Apr-13 23:18:38 UTC from web