Page 1 of Tablet games hidden costs

Gave my daughter my Amazon fire tablet last week as her laptop is getting fixed.

She wanted a few free games, so I put in my parental password to download them. This uses my card to buy from Anazon , though being free dies not take any money.

One game in particular called 'Minion chase' based on the dispicable me film, caused me concern, as my daughter asked for my password to unlock a next level with tokens, costing real money, wait for it, £25.

I refused, and when checking the game, there are things to buy costing up to £75 a time. I was shocked, as this game is geared up for kids to keep buying in real money for add-ons and extra functions and new characters. I have now deleted the game.

Total disgrace and luckly kept my password hidden.

This is becoming a huge problem for parents of youngsters. I feel lucky that I had my kids n the 90's, so they were old enough to know better before these "games" came along!

Still alive and kicking. You can't get rid of me that easily!

Correct, luckily my daughters is a teenager and did ask me, whereas a younger Jud would not consider the difference between say a fiver against seventy five pounds, and just buy.

It is the greed of these games companies, actually charging such high sums, as its not just say 50p for an add-on, but instead a fistful of pounds.

Its criminal and these tablets are just as dangerous having your bank card locked into it

Luckly my card runs out next month, and will not be informing Amazon of new details of new card number

"Freemium Isn't Free"

South Park Episode, where they explored the dangers of these "free" games, and how ppl get sucked in, it's WWAW.

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To be fare there are some free games that do not hit you for money extras, but do have advertising.

But I will be screening future game downloads for my daughter, to make sure they do not contain these 'high cost' surprises.