News: Scams and Social Gaming

[News Bot]

TechCrunch is running a story about the prevalence of scams and shady monetization techniques in popular social games on Facebook and MySpace. As an alternative to buying in-game currency with real money, many games make use of lead-generation offers - letting players sign up for a trial service or take a survey in exchange for the currency. The system is rife with scams, and many game developers turn a blind-eye to them, much to the detriment of the players and the legitimate advertisers - not to mention the games that rightly disallow these offers and fall behind in profits. The article asserts that Facebook and MySpace themselves are complicit in this, failing to crack down on the abuses they see because they make so much money from advertising for the most popular games.


Read more of this story at Slashdot.

[Grading]

People have been running scams like this since the beginning of browser based games. It is best to just ignore and play for fun your own way.

[Ze-Tomb]

Originally Posted by Grading

People have been running scams like this since the beginning of browser based games. It is best to just ignore and play for fun your own way.

That is very true. Sadly.


Man this actually quite an old thread!

[Grading]

It was still somehow close to the top

[BlkRb0t]

Originally Posted by Grading

It was still somehow close to the top

Haha, that explains the sate of affairs here.

[Ze-Tomb]

Originally Posted by BlkRb0t

Haha, that explains the sate of affairs here.

Need more people.
I'm alone as the only person with 2 rep bars.