Although the market for video games and apps is leading us to a freemium model where it seems that we are acquiring a free application so that then the inevitable purchases within the app appear to obtain more powers or privileges, Google wants at least the user to be duly informed before installing something on their Android terminal.
Surely many developers who are having a golden age with their in-app purchases They will not like this measure at all, since sometimes it is played with the ignorance of the user to be able to benefit some. You will already know a story that another how a mother left her phone to her son so that he would like to advance properly in his favorite game, almost leaving 0 the credit card.
The origin of this change
Everything comes thanks to a developer who contacted Google about the new guidelines to confirm the request for an address, to which Google support He replied that the Play Store it will begin to show the list of the different price ranges for purchases within the application.
These new guidelines consist of provide a real physical address for all paid apps or those that have in-app purchases activated. This address will appear in the Play Store for users.
A thousand times yes
Information is vital and it doesn't cost much either put a list of purchases within the app so that it is quickly known what we can stick to when we go to install an app.
The same Apple already has this shopping list inside the app on iTunes for some time now, and it's pretty useful information. Although at the moment, what we do not know is how Google will treat this data in the Play Store, although for this reason, something is better than nothing.
Most of us are adults when we enjoy a game and the little window appears warning us of the possible purchase of such power, but when a phone or tablet is in the hand of one of the little ones in the house, the desire to access is enlarged without any responsibility on your part. There is parental control but isn't it easier to see in a list what certain purchases can cost within the app?
Google's reason
Google relies on applying these changes to comply with consumer protection laws, although it may not be very clear what Google is referring to. Perhaps it is due to prevent legal actions that can come from Europe, but what if it is clear that transparency in this shopping trend within the app will always be well received.
Those times In which, when you bought an app yourself, you no longer had to worry about acquiring something extra and enjoyed the content. Also, this way of selling something "free" when it is not, is another way of catching new customers who in the end are led to acquire that essential characteristic or that power that will almost transform them into something non-human to end their enemies. . They know us well.