<story><title>Google will stop calling games &apos;free&apos; when they offer in-app purchases</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>This is the best news I&amp;#x27;ve heard in a long time, but how do they filter the &amp;quot;disable ads&amp;quot; IAP vs the &amp;quot;oh you spent 3 hours getting invested in this game, but you can&amp;#x27;t reasonably proceed further until you buy xxx&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>There is in fact a whole range of software types to distinguish here:,&lt;p&gt;- apps that are entirely free&lt;p&gt;- apps with ads&lt;p&gt;- apps with removable ads&lt;p&gt;- apps with premium features&lt;p&gt;- apps that are demos (unlockable to the full app by paying)&lt;p&gt;- apps that sell cheats (99% of IAP games, the ones that disguise their cheats as &amp;quot;energy&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;coins&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;gems&amp;quot;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Google will stop calling games &apos;free&apos; when they offer in-app purchases</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaziz</author><text>This is the best news I&amp;#x27;ve heard in a long time, but how do they filter the &amp;quot;disable ads&amp;quot; IAP vs the &amp;quot;oh you spent 3 hours getting invested in this game, but you can&amp;#x27;t reasonably proceed further until you buy xxx&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klewelling</author><text>Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://honestandroidgames.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;honestandroidgames.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; They will tell you what type of game (free, free with ads, paid, etc)</text></comment>