Confessions of a Free-To-Play Producer

This narrative on TouchArcade from a major free-to-play developer is about as horrifying as you’d fear.

Read it. Then delete your Facebook account and uninstall anything that ever asked you to “like” it. Shit like this is why I advocate ad blocking. Which you should totally do now that iOS 9 is out.

I disagree with one thing, and only one thing: asking gamers to support premium apps isn’t enough. Gamers are up against an army of truly terrible people who are spending millions of dollars learning how to exploit their weakness. APPLE is the one who should be protecting users. Apple should ban apps that do this garbage from the store. Apple should publicly shame developers. Apple should threaten to ban the Facebook app unless it makes policy changes in how it farms data.

We need an advocate at the top.