Son spent £235 on an XBOX App

Ouch.

Note for future, you can buy Roblox gift cards in Currys, easy to load onto the game and no chance of overspending. £10 at a time which as you have discovered does not last long!

Out of interest, how old is youngest?

fozmcfc wrote: »

So glad you got a refund.

My rant, £235 in game purchase, as a long term gamer from the 70's until now, I really do despair, at what modern day gaming is largely about.

It's all very well, saying that parental controls are available etc, but to actually allow a game that will appeal to children and no doubt played by many children, to purchase £235 worth of adds on at the click of a button, itself is just plain disgusting. At the very least, the 3 digit CVV number from the credit card, should need to be entered for purchases.

In general, sadly, it seems, modern day gamers are all too happy to allow themselves to be ripped off, with half finished and playable games, so companies can make a fast buck or thousand out them, by pretending these things are add on, rather than giving a full game to start with.

Don't even get me started on Freemium games :mad:

Yep.

I remember the days (ugh, already sound old) where you'd buy a game... maybe it'd cost £25 to £30 but that was that. Everything included - maybe it'd need a patch or two to fix minor bugs, but back in those days, a lot of developers would release shareware versions of games with so much of the content available for free prior to release (Doom and Quake, for example, let players have the first episode of each game) and then the devs would hear through the grapevine about issues so they could fix them prior to full release.

And then, maybe, a few months later there'd be an expansion pack or two, for £15 or so, with a sizeable amount of extra content.

Happy days.

Now it's three versions of the base game, one for £50, one for £70 and one for £85... EA completely took the mick recently with Mass Effect: Andromeda releasing some sort of £250 super-deluxe version with a remote control Nomad vehicle BUT NOT a copy of the actual game! :rotfl:

Then there's the micro transactions, because you have to get your advantages in multiplayer (pay-to-win, yay!), so a tenner here, tenner there... suddenly, you've blown three times the cost of the base game in a week, knowing that they'll shut those multiplayer servers down in a couple of years anyway.

And of course, DLC! At this point, it costs the same as an expansion pack of old, but contains one-tenth of the content.

I get games are expensive, and additional revenue streams are often required to pay a dev team for ongoing support for a title, but some devs really do go overboard especially on the games designed for younger people and kids... you get cosmetic items like coats for the cost of a real coat.

Ugh... rant over.