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		pjungwir on July 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will stop calling games 'free' when they of... From a user perspective this seems very nice. It might be nice for developers too if it starts to train people to expect to pay more than $0-2 for a game. I wonder if part of Google's reason is to push people toward advertising instead?

dyarosla on July 18, 2014 [–]

Either that, or push the customer base of Google to pay for quality applications. Sadly, with lack of curation, I would guess customers would be skeptical of spending money on a non-free game for fear of a poor purchase (crashes, not working, etc)

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