But how do you tell the difference between an adult and a kid with their parents password and bank card?
If you trust your kid with your bank account and get burned.. isn't that kind of on you?
If you trust your kid with your bank account and get burned.. isn't that kind of on you?
There is no way to distinguish between an adult and a kid with their parents' credentials.
If the precedent gets set that you can buy in-game currency and then reverse the charge on the grounds that that was your friend's kid, not you, what will happen?
All I see is that it becomes tougher to offer games that are monetized in this style, which seems like a positive effect. So assigning responsibility to the parent doesn't seem that important to me.
I think they’d start asking for the police report in that case, or telling you to call your CC company to report the unauthorized transactions.
Adult who realize what they are doing and want to stop cold turkey doing it? Fine with me as well.
Why, for example, can you as a parent not set an (even global) spending limit on in app purchases?
Why can't you disable in-app purchases per app?
I think the answer to those sorts of questions is pretty easy to come up with. Lot's of things could technically be done that would make it easier for parents to manage this stuff, but it's not going to happen without a push from somewhere because every barrier you put in place will reduce revenue somewhere.
Disable unauthed purchases if a kid plays with your device.
banks need to make that easier. essentially, if we even want to allow children sto spend money online, we need to start handling allowances online too. automatically transfer $10 every week to my sons account, for example.