US EditionGordon Ramsay, Subway Surfers and Angry Birds Studio Outplay Cuts 21 Staff
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Consumer centres have admonished the creators of five selected computer games for unfair practices and manipulative designs.
Unfair practices, which are supposed to lead to purchases, are not uncommon in online games. This has revealed an investigation by the consumer center Federal Association. Gamers should know the tricks.
Nervous advertising, confusing pricing: Consumer protectors accuse the creators of successful video games of manipulative tricks. A case even ends up in court.
Gordon Ramsay, Subway Surfers and Angry Birds studio Outplay cuts 21 staff
Outplay Entertainment has cut 21 staff as it restructures to focus on working with publishers. The move also reflects “current business realities”, the studio told us. Outplay Entertainment is based in Dundee, Scotland, and says it is the largest independent mobile game studio in the UK. It develops Gordon Ramsay’s Chef Blast, Subway Surfers Blast, Angry Birds Pop and Mystery Match Village alongside partners including Sybo and Rovio. Outplay CEO…
Play for free, pay for expensive games? Popular online games are under observation. What goes on behind the scenes of the colorful game worlds alarms consumer protection and affects millions of young users in Europe.read more on t3n.de
With tricks to the money of the customers: Consumers criticise well-known online games, against Roblox was filed lawsuit. (VZBV, consumer protection)
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