Games - "Some apps may result in additional charges for data use?"

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texaswildman

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When we first got with Verizon the games would say that it would use airtime or it wouldn't. We only bought games that didn't use extra airtime. Now EVERY game says it MAY result in additional charges.

Maybe I am not understanding it correctly but to me it feels as if they are trying to confuse their customers. Why wouldn't they let us know which games will incur charges and which won't? They used to but then decided not too anymore?

I hoping someone can help me understand how this all works now because right now my family isn't allowed to even look at the games unless I KNOW I won't be getting charges everytime they play them.
 
It would be difficult for Verizon Wireless to provide an accurate response as to it charging more data or not for use...even whenever they use to specify (like you said)...they were frequently wrong. They don't make the games, they sale them. The person entering the information may not know everything about the game...now they just put it on all their games to save them from errors.

Depending on your plan: If you're on an older plan that was designed prior to December 2007, then data use just is subtracted from your minute bank. Plans that are newer "Nationwide Plans" will charge additional fees per megabyte, which varies per app or use. The fee is $1.99 per megabyte.

A way to know if an app is using data is to look at the top of your phone screen. If it has a phone with two arrows following it, then it is using data and you're most likely being billed for it...in some form (whether it's minutes or megabytes, depending on your plan).
 
I would think they would or should know whether or not the game has to connect to where ever to download new data to your phone while it is being played. Solitaire would have no reason really to have to need any data sent where as something like Wheel of Fortune etc would need new puzzles. And on all the games we downloaded previous to this change, we were never charged extra minutes for those games. As for being on an old plan, they pretty much make that impossible. We were required to "upgrade" our plan to the newer Nationwide when we were ready to take advantage of the NE2 as they no longer "supported" our old plan.

I find it hard to believe that I am expected to BUY the game, PAY $2+ just to download it and only THEN find out if I am going to be charged a ridiculous fee just to play it! For me this is one more reason people are going to start looking elsewhere. I can't understand why there aren't more upset about this $1.99/mb fee. Isn't that part of what our plan pays for?
 
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