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A few of you have seen my video on Family Sharing I made, that exposes an issue with family share billing. It works as expected using a PC like platform, but on Android as you are aware has its own p... See more...
A few of you have seen my video on Family Sharing I made, that exposes an issue with family share billing. It works as expected using a PC like platform, but on Android as you are aware has its own permission system and this is where a exploit can take place. This can be rather hard to explain perfectly but I'll try my best ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How purchase approvals work across devices Stadia purchases can be made from a variety of devices: On non-Android devices:   you'll be asked to approve purchases On the Stadia app on Android:   your purchase approval settings on Google Play will apply ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that, on Android purchases, you setup thru https://play.google.com/store/account There you can setup rules for who in the family can purchase. Most will want to use this for their kids to authorize the purchase and the family controller gets an notification to authorize the purchase as they don't want their credit cards tied into their kids accounts directly. Pretty much the whole point of the family billing system. But there is an issue on the Google Play end, that can be a bit of an exploit or at least a problem down the road. If the family members account, which is another google account, has their profile birthdate making them 18 years of age, then no authorization takes place and your card can be charged without authorization, as if they truly had all your card info etc on their account. 1. The first problem, is people who are on perhaps PC might never be aware of this issue when setting up their payment. For me, I tested if my family members could charge my card, and it asked via email, but that was done through a PC, however thru a phone or tablet, (android of course) They could buy the game without requiring any permission. To further complicate this issue, if the family member is 18, in the settings to make purchases AUTHORIZED, is greyed out... You can not block a purchase if they are 18 on there google profile. Here is the approval setup that you will see when a family members birthdate is set to where he is 18 years or older...  As you can see, the ability to require purchase approval is "greyed out" unsettable. They will be able to charge your card without your permission. And here is when they are young, under 18 years of age, you can set so you get the request to authorize the purchase. So, there is absolutely no way whatsoever to protect your card, exposing an issue down the road. Let me explain a few scenarios. First of all, you have to understand that you can change your age in your Google profile. So anyone can make any account 18+ pretty easily. This is the exploit part of the problem. If your child changes his age, or even becomes of age by time passed, you unknowingly now have accounts out there that can charge your card. 1. Kids making purchases are probably not going to happen, but do you want the issue to arise? I would not want to deal with this myself. 2. A more likely scenario, accidental clicks. Zooming around, click, missclick, oh crap... Do you want to deal with this problem? 2. Kids account gets hacked. It's a kid, so anyone tries to make a purchase just comes to you to authorize. No harm, but all hacker has to do is change birthdate. Now person gets into google play store and racks up a bunch of charges. You might say, I'm not responsible for these charges, but do you really want to deal with this problem? If you ask me, It just makes no sense why this is greyed out in the first place?!?!? I think it needs to be addressed is why I am bringing it to your attention... Finally, If you are the master account holder with the credit cards. I have a suggestion. 1. Get a Major Brand Gift Card of like $25 dollars. Set it up as your primary Google payment card. You most likely are going to be aware of when it will be charged. Simply change primary to your main card when making purchase and if anything bad does happen, they can only use the mere $25 or whatever on the gift card. Unfortunately you can't set Google Play credit to primary payment for subscriptions etc. A credit card will be needed for this.  Hopefully we can get this bundled up so we all feel safe. Happy family gaming all!
This is very strange, I think its more than what is stated.... I was playing PUBG on Stadia and having a great time, the games were real, amazing, and always winnable because of the lack of cheaters ... See more...
This is very strange, I think its more than what is stated.... I was playing PUBG on Stadia and having a great time, the games were real, amazing, and always winnable because of the lack of cheaters ruining the experience... THEN... Something happened around August/September, every time I got into a game, it felt so different. Suddenly my 33% win rate went to 0%. But not only that, all the battles started feeling entirely different. I noticed people chasing me over mountains with no sight with pinpoint accuracy. People started always lighting me up never being seen. I felt like they finally put the game in PC queue's.... And perhaps that's exactly what happened?!? My game experience went from a great time, to screw this game overnight.. for a whole week it continued... i watched death cams and have video of strange stuff... I have videos of people standing behind walls, then turning and running right at me.. but then  I look up changes and there's no PC cross play experience... Totally bizarre... The only thing I can think of, is perhaps a sound hack got out...and people on Stadia were perhaps exploiting it?!? How else could you cheat?!? Not sure, only a guess, or perhaps they did open up the queues only to learn that 50% of their keyboard players quit because of the insane cheating problems on PC. I dunno, but I am not buying this crap, "we decided to focus solely on controller" excuse... Why not leave it? Who cares if there's no players! What difference does it make?!?! I put money in on that Esports crap, and bought tickets etc.. Guess I have to file for a refund.. But still, we need the truth!
Ignored? I have had nothing but good instant support the 3 times I went looking for help.
you can see positive on my youtube channel, i come here to post grievances with 2k, because all of their games are borderline fraudulent. MY points are proven and not debatable
no clue what you are talking about, but bye  ;D
Founders have more informed knowledge on the technology, they understand what's going on, and we really don't care about those ignorant that come by and spit out the hatred, cuz we have used the tech... See more...
Founders have more informed knowledge on the technology, they understand what's going on, and we really don't care about those ignorant that come by and spit out the hatred, cuz we have used the technology, we know it works, we know how much more incredible it is than what you have and its cheaper and getting better. In the past 2 months we have seen the seeds starting to sprout and know that the future is very bright.  What's further more with Stadia, it is not a choice, it is always there. We are not tied to a jukebox cash machine in our living rooms. In PUBG for example, when the communities of players there on Xbox servers go down.. they all come to Stadia and continue to play. They are use to what they know, but they see Stadia and only don't stay here because its just not common yet... Few more games, few more months, it gobble up the entire world, especially now as 5g rolls out and you can stand in your garage playing your game while your father drinks beer and works on his car and he might not even know your defeating the GOD of Anger on your little phone
Hi, I wouldn't take a random persons message here on the forums as closure. IMO, this is one of the dumbest things on the planet implemented. Just yesterday I was discussing this on their discord, of... See more...
Hi, I wouldn't take a random persons message here on the forums as closure. IMO, this is one of the dumbest things on the planet implemented. Just yesterday I was discussing this on their discord, of course, ignorant people only think of themselves when debating, people who have no experience in business etc., and here we are not 24 hours later and someone is wanting a change like I expected. I would contact support, and fight your way for a change.... Clearly they did this for themselves, the easy way out to handle issues with piracy, control, and other legal issues that will arise, I reckon to do with peoples age on the platform, region control etc, but in 2 years this will change anyhow because they are going to see what is going to happen to their company with this issue, this will be one major reason people wont be part of the platform. The fanboys here think their Gmail account is like social security number for life... hardly the case... They clearly have no clue how Gmail accounts are created and why, and people wont be thinking about their forever future when they come join Stadia, once they learn it is.. they will leave. FIGHT LIKE HELL, this again IMO, the dumbest tech design in Stadia's design history
didnt even know it existed... just hop on the Stadia discord, might be just linked to that lol
Stadia doesn't release the games, they setup a platform for developers. Maybe email the developers with your complaints?  
Stadia is a platform, you are acting like they go out and hire people to appear on their platform. Developers come to the platform, they develop, and they release. All your complaints really have not... See more...
Stadia is a platform, you are acting like they go out and hire people to appear on their platform. Developers come to the platform, they develop, and they release. All your complaints really have nothing to do with Stadia. Actually if you think about it, if you are mad Stadia is not ripe with fresh content, then you should be out emailing the publishers you want their titles on Stadia and quit screwing up postponing stuff.. Seriously, this constant bickering of content has nothing to do with Google whatsoever, they have been more than generous to their base here at the launch of their incredible platform of the future.
Good call on DBD
We are in the middle of a pandemic, there is no staff as usual. Butthurt gamers are going to complain if they don't get their dessert before dinner. No one plays attention to this drivel. This does n... See more...
We are in the middle of a pandemic, there is no staff as usual. Butthurt gamers are going to complain if they don't get their dessert before dinner. No one plays attention to this drivel. This does not kill Stadia, Look around, Stadia is growing, and trust me, there is more in development than a can of snakes stirred up with a snake. We already know Xbox people are used to their Xbox and going to stay there... It matters not, Stadia will grow and youth is always reborn, hunreds of thousands of people turn 10 each day. Stadia will be okay, because it works and its only getting better. And it gets to more places than you can control.
Hi BigT3xas,  Well, you have to look at it different, Stadia is a platform, they are not a publisher, whereas MS and PS are. I imagine in a decade, Stadia will probably become one as they will acqui... See more...
Hi BigT3xas,  Well, you have to look at it different, Stadia is a platform, they are not a publisher, whereas MS and PS are. I imagine in a decade, Stadia will probably become one as they will acquire assets, but they are a tech company with a product. And that product base takes time to develop. Some of my best projects going up in web development were amazing pieces of work. I thought I'd be a millionaire in no time. After 6 months, I had 3 sales and gave up... 3 years later it caught on and I had to get ack at it... Can't imagine where I'd be if I just stayed on those projects those 3 years, I'd probably own MS by now. Look, It takes a company with massive assets 5 years to make a AAA game and not even finished on release, now after just 1 year you are ready to throw in the towel? I think Stadia was very slow to start, but its picking up, and of course people are going to come over, grab a dev kit and port their content it... And working with Indie developers grows the platform. As for football... Madden release was Winter 2021, I thought it was coming out earlier too, I relooked at all the articles and they all stated Winter 2021, so I think we got it confused with some other article blog that posted Golf on the 15th and football on the 25th. I was complaining we'd lose 3 days of MUT trading, then it never arrived and I was confused.. Maybe someone screwed up, but all around it was stated for Winter. Online communities are not ready for Stadia, as much as we'd like them to be, which is probably why you won't be seeing COD etc like games till later next year
Thanks for sharing, The pay thing didnt seem to ridiculous, does it stop giving you 1000 every time you level up?
Sorry for all the Stadia haters below, they have been handed everything in life, from shelter, to education, to inheritance and have no clue what its like to work for a living. They think everything ... See more...
Sorry for all the Stadia haters below, they have been handed everything in life, from shelter, to education, to inheritance and have no clue what its like to work for a living. They think everything is created with a magic wand and have no clue half of what they get was from the blood sweat and tears from techs years ago, who might be long forgotten. It's cancel culture, and as you can see its very disturbing social group of spoiled rotten mother get them a trophy for showing up mentality gone wild. While I'm not a fan of throwing all these old games on Stadia for a quick cash grab and dilute the system. This is a great program and I hope you expand it beyond the UNITY engine. If so, I have one that's coming in the coming years...
I read somewhere that Sniper Elite 4 was recently (if not just yesterday) rated for Stadia, this is a big red tape process required for publishers to get a particular product on a platform.
even when things are going good, they actually made a game where they make you jam on A to get up, and your suppose to jam on A, but the opposing wrestler is about to grab you 3/4 into your smashes..... See more...
even when things are going good, they actually made a game where they make you jam on A to get up, and your suppose to jam on A, but the opposing wrestler is about to grab you 3/4 into your smashes.. so you smash even faster and blow the counter... how stupid can you be as a developer, im suppose to not hit a and hope he grabs me for a counter?
Hehe on the downvotes, now you know why Reddit exists, they are a corporate troll shields for the Goliaths... They should change their name to vacuum or sweepyourdirtundertherug.com
After you get into it, you will find that the controls are lagged, just like in Golf, and Basketball 2021 releases, that you will not be able to play good, because you can't counter quick enough unle... See more...
After you get into it, you will find that the controls are lagged, just like in Golf, and Basketball 2021 releases, that you will not be able to play good, because you can't counter quick enough unless you are magically pressing that button anyhow at that exact time to get lucky.. You wont see this until you get to campaign act 2, when the difficulty gets higher where countering is key to the single player game. It's apparent they have serious controller development issues that plague all their games and they only appear to work okay on the Playstation platform... Intentional? I doubt it... but who knows... But the reports i get from my look at videos, and social media messages, continually state, that the game don't work on Stadia, it dont work on Xbox, and dont work on PC... But playstation users seem to have no issues.. I would guess they are developing it on this platform from the start and porting it over is problematic to the other systems. I strongly recommend DO NOT BUY 2K games on Stadia
yeah, it's very clear, the controls on all their @2K games only work on Playstation where they are developing it... This game is broken, NBA2K is broken, and WWE 2K Battlegrounds, once you get into i... See more...
yeah, it's very clear, the controls on all their @2K games only work on Playstation where they are developing it... This game is broken, NBA2K is broken, and WWE 2K Battlegrounds, once you get into it.. its impossible to counter, because you have to click before you actually see what button to click to counter.. ugh that click is random...  I would boycott all 2K games outside of PS, and even then boycott them cuz they are trash company, just care about cash shop cash.