{"id":139226,"date":"2015-07-30T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=139226"},"modified":"2015-07-30T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:31:28","slug":"windows-10-tries-to-make-you-pay-to-play-solitaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/windows-10-tries-to-make-you-pay-to-play-solitaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 tries to make you pay to play Solitaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Windows 10, which was released yesterday, includes an update to a number of Microsoft\u2019s card games previously included for free in Windows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new versions of Freecell and Solitaire are bundled in an app called \u201cMicrosoft Solitaire Collection\u201d and seem free at first, but actually ask you to pay a monthly fee to get all the features after your first game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That\u2019s right, you\u2019ll need to pony up $1.49 per month or $9.99 per year to remove the advertisements, get more coins in game and a special \u201cboost\u201d to make it easier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In-app purchases are common in mobile games. Candy Crush and TwoDots have made insane amounts of money from simply making people buy items in-game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charging for card games that were formerly free is ridiculous, yet nobody at Microsoft thought about how much it\u2019d upset their moms when they\u2019re asked to pay to remove advertising in their favorite game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new app was available in Windows 8, but wasn\u2019t bundled as part of the operating system until Windows 10\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember when games came for free with your computer and didn\u2019t ask for anything more? Next they\u2019ll be making us pay to use the calculator!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: The Nextweb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10, which was released yesterday, includes an update to a number of Microsoft\u2019s card games previously included for free in Windows. The new versions of Freecell and Solitaire are bundled in an app called \u201cMicrosoft Solitaire Collection\u201d and seem free at first, but actually ask you to pay a monthly fee to get all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":139230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[18],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Windows 10 tries to make you pay to play Solitaire - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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