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RE: Question
By Keeir on 2/10/2011 6:41:49 PM , Rating: 2
Nobody should be paying $99 for a DIGITAL copy of "smurf berries"! This is obviously designed to exploit unsuspecting people. Entire games themselves rarely cost anywhere near that amount.

While I "agree" to a certain extent, its important to understand what this repersents in the game.

Smurfberries is a way to speed up the development of your Smurf Village. Its essentially the same thing as buying time and effort. Since the entire point of the game is to build a fancy smurf village to show off... then this has some apparent value to people. As strange as that may seem.

The 99 dollar option is actual a bulk discount option. The standard price for the "normal" amount is under 5 dollars.

I don't like micro-transaction games either. Even worse than montly fee games in my mind. But its also hard for me to critize a company that allows some legitimate (read of legal age) users the ability to purchase with less effort and lower price what they would purchase anyway.

The only issue I can see is the 15 minute password keep. When the iphone keeps the itunes password for upto 15 minutes as a convience. This can be gotten around though... if you lock your phone and then unlock it, then this 15 minutes period is reset to none and a password must be entered.

Otherwise you better trust your child if you handing them ANY smartphone and password system because a irresponisble child can rack up huge expenses in a variety of ways.

