Candy crush

sarahv

I've just put candy crush on my phone but I'm worried I'm spending money and not realising. You don't have to pay when you press retry do you? You pay only if you buy extra lives right ? Which is way too easy to do as I accidentally pressed it once. What about those booster things do you pay for those? I can't find any info in the app itself, I'm probably looking in the wrong place !

Stheno

sarahv wrote: »

I've just put candy crush on my phone but I'm worried I'm spending money and not realising. You don't have to pay when you press retry do you? You pay only if you buy extra lives right ? Which is way too easy to do as I accidentally pressed it once. What about those booster things do you pay for those? I can't find any info in the app itself, I'm probably looking in the wrong place !

Yes when you buy new lives and boosters you pay

NachoBusiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbMCVHCyi4

sarahv

Stheno wrote: »

Yes when you buy new lives and boosters you pay

But you don't pay when you just click retry?

B0jangles

If you want free lives just set your phone clock forward about 6 hours, then launch CC so that it registers that you've got the lives then quit the game go back and reset your phone clock to normal. When you relaunch the game you'll still have full lives.

Same thing works for those end of area games where you can only do one every 24 hours btw.

I got to around level 400ish and never paid a cent.

(Then I uninstalled it cos it was starting to annoy the hell out of me )

Kolido

Did you enter your paypal/CC details with google at any time?

suicide_circus

B0jangles wrote: »

If you want free lives just set your phone clock forward about 6 hours, then launch CC so that it registers that you've got the lives then quit the game go back and reset your phone clock to normal. When you relaunch the game you'll still have full lives.

You need help.

hairyslug

Either way, you pay with your soul

whiskeyman

sarahv wrote: »

But you don't pay when you just click retry?

Yep.
It also charges you behind the scenes for the length of time you're playing - this will be reflected on your next bill or taken from your prepay credit at the next financial month.
Best you can do it burn your phone down.

B0jangles

suicide_circus wrote: »

You need help.

After years spent testing games/software systems profesionally I do still automatically try out different ways of messing with them to see what'll happen - it's occasionally very interesting.

Ruu

Remove any payment methods you have from play store. You can also set it to ask for your google password anytime you make a purchase.

suicide_circus

B0jangles wrote: »

After years spent testing games/software systems profesionally I do still automatically try out different ways of messing with them to see what'll happen - it's occasionally very interesting.

Ah right, I assumed you went through the clock reset several times a day to facilitate your sick candy crush addiction.

sarahv

Kolido wrote: »

Did you enter your paypal/CC details with google at any time?

No

handlemaster

hate when I get the candy rush friend recommended links on facebook.

sarahv

Ruu wrote: »

Remove any payment methods you have from play store. You can also set it to ask for your google password anytime you make a purchase.

Ah right, will try this. I was surprised when I accidentally bought the new lives that it didn't ask me to confirm or for a password or anything. It was just for the bus, didn't want to pay anything. I don't think I'll use it too much anyway

Penny Tration

How do you pay for something on it with one click?

I've never paid for anything on it, but let the sister once buy some boosters when she was playing it on my phone, and it's more than one click. You click to buy it, then it tells you how many 'gold' you need, and the price, you click to accept, THEN put in your password or payment method.

It's really not difficult to avoid paying for things.

And no, you're not being charged without realising it. They're very clear in getting confirmation that you know you're paying, when you pay.

sarahv

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

How do you pay for something on it with one click?

I've never paid for anything on it, but let the sister once buy some boosters when she was playing it on my phone, and it's more than one click. You click to buy it, then it tells you how many 'gold' you need, and the price, you click to accept, THEN put in your password or payment method.

It's really not difficult to avoid paying for things.

And no, you're not being charged without realising it. They're very clear in getting confirmation that you know you're paying, when you pay.

Oh that's good, I was worried I was racking up charges. I got an extra five lives and I definitely didn't enter any password. Maybe in fact I didn't pay but I thought for the extra lives you always paid.

B0jangles

suicide_circus wrote: »

Ah right, I assumed you went through the clock reset several times a day to facilitate your sick candy crush addiction.

>_>
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I'm better now, all better...

SeanW

handlemaster wrote: »

hate when I get the candy rush friend recommended links on facebook.

Yeah, "so and so invited you to play Candy Crush" "so and so sent you a tractor on Farmville"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Penny Tration

sarahv wrote: »

Oh that's good, I was worried I was racking up charges. I got an extra five lives and I definitely didn't enter any password. Maybe in fact I didn't pay but I thought for the extra lives you always paid.

The app occasionally gives free boosters (one a day) and extra lives (rarely). There's a three step system in place to buy anything, so relax.

sarahv

NachoBusiness wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbMCVHCyi4

Haha, I hope I don't sink to this level

sarahv

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

The app occasionally gives free boosters (one a day) and extra lives (rarely). There's a three step system in place to buy anything, so relax.

Eh, just did a test there for the 3 steps - It said start the game with booster, so I clicked the Colour bomb picture with the little 9 gold bar beside it and it immediately came up - booster successfully purchased! No 3 steps

Tombi!

Just ring your network provider and check.
At this stage I'd get rid of the app and get (and they do exist) free ones that aren't a money making effort.

Penny Tration

sarahv wrote: »

Eh, just did a test there for the 3 steps - It said start the game with booster, so I clicked the Colour bomb picture with the little 9 gold bar beside it and it immediately came up - booster successfully purchased! No 3 steps

Which means you already input payment details (someone asked you that earlier and you said you hadn't?) and haven't got it password protected.

sarahv

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Which means you already input payment details (someone asked you that earlier and you said you hadn't?) and haven't got it password protected.

I just got a new phone and I definitely haven't put it in on this one, maybe on my old one so long ago that I can't remember doing it. Will see about fixing it

sarahv

That's what was confusing me actually about what I was paying for because I assumed they would have asked me for password. Didn't think it would be so easy to pay

ohnonotgmail

sarahv wrote: »

I just got a new phone and I definitely haven't put it in on this one, maybe on my old one so long ago that I can't remember doing it. Will see about fixing it

it would be linked to your google account.

Penny Tration

sarahv wrote: »

That's what was confusing me actually about what I was paying for because I assumed they would have asked me for password. Didn't think it would be so easy to pay

Basically what it means is, on your old phone, you would have pressed a button one day, while buying a booster/lives, that says 'do not ask for my password again.' When you switched phones and synced your Google account, these same settings carried over too.

Tombi!

OP, this isn't the forum for it. Since you've got a Google account, I'm assuming you're using Android so ask here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1343
Charter link to be read:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055917210

Cheers,
Tombi!