Cetis Blogs - expert commentary on educational technology » free2play http://blogs.cetis.org.uk Specialists in educational technology and standards Tue, 12 May 2015 11:45:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 The death of Free2Play is a good thing beyond the games industry http://paddytherabbit.com/the-death-of-free2play-is-a-good-thing-beyond-the-games-industry/ http://paddytherabbit.com/the-death-of-free2play-is-a-good-thing-beyond-the-games-industry/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:26:51 +0000 http://paddytherabbit.com/?p=1628 Way back in February the EU commission raised concerns over business models in the mobile phone ‘app industry’. There were 4 major points of concern, these are taken directly from the EC press release : • Games advertised as “free”…

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]]> Way back in February the EU commission raised concerns over business models in the mobile phone ‘app industry’. There were 4 major points of concern, these are taken directly from the EC press release :

• Games advertised as “free” should not mislead consumers about the true costs involved;
• Games should not contain direct exhortations to children to buy items in a game or to persuade an adult to buy items for them;
• Consumers should be adequately informed about the payment arrangements and purchases should not be debited through default settings without consumers’ explicit consent;
• Traders should provide an email address so that consumers can contact them in case of queries or complaints.

Two weeks ago a follow up release gave details of changes to the Google Play store that will take place before the end of September:

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