Google Will Not Call Games with In-App Purchases ‘Free”

<p>Some say nothing in life is free&comma; and extra in-game fees purchases aren&&num;8217&semi;t either according to the European Union&period; Following its investigation into the advertisement of &&num;8220&semi;free-to-play&&num;8221&semi; app games and their subsequent in-app fees&comma; the European Commission had <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;europa&period;eu&sol;rapid&sol;press-release&lowbar;IP-14-847&lowbar;en&period;htm&quest;locale&equals;en">hammered out new instructions<&sol;a> for game developers and the app stores that they sell to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a result&comma; Google has agreed to cease its listings of in-app purchases as &&num;8220&semi;free&&num;8221&semi; by the end of September&period; Any in-app purchases will further demand verification prior to each purchase for safe measure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple has meanwhile promised to address general concerns of payment authorization&comma; citing it doing &&num;8220&semi;more than others&&num;8221&semi; to protect parents from their kids&&num;8217&semi; video game expenditures in the past via &&num;8220&semi;great new features with iOS 8&comma; such as Ask to Buy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>What do you think&quest; What games are really &&num;8220&semi;free&&num;8221&semi; anymore&quest; Tell us in the comments below&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bbc&period;com&sol;news&sol;technology-28363729">BBC<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theverge&period;com&sol;2014&sol;7&sol;18&sol;5915415&sol;google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission">The Verge<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;destructoid&period;com&sol;google-will-stop-calling-games-with-in-app-purchases-free-in-europe-278343&period;phtml">Destructoid<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;