Capcom's free-to-play Smurfs' Village out-grossing Angry Birds

This is a freaking scam...$30 dollars just ripped of my wallet.

I downloaded Smurfs' village thinking it was free and now just got hit with a $59 charge for a wheel-barrow. I was not even prompted with a buy option. heck, i didn't even know I had it until I saw the invoice from appstore.

Lesson learned. Is there any recourse to get my money back?

So parents don't know how to logout of the App Store?

This highlights a consistent problem with inapp purchases - buy the game for your kid and enter your password, and you won't be prompted for inapp purchases for ~5 minutes while your password is saved - they tap away and buy 1000 smurfberries for 70 bucks.

The in-app purchases of Smurf's village.... very Expensive! And if you don't buy the smurfberries you won't be able to have in your village Smurfette, Hefty Smurf, Painter Smurf, Farmer Smurf (without buying you can obtain only one of them) or to have some other items ((snail, well, caterpillar, fire and cauldron). That means that if you don't pay, all what you can do in the last level is useless. Furthermore, manipulation errors are possible and it can happen that you use the smurfberries that you didn't buy involuntarily.
All Is done in order to convince you to buy.
I prefer apps that cost something at the beginning and that's all: I know what I pay and that I will be able to play till the end, without restrictions.

la la lalalala...

im not a fan of angry birds, seems boring to me.
but i can understand why its so popular, EVERYONE i know plays angry birds (my android friends came a little late to the party lol but w/e)
i would love to see something like you get handed something in the game and then the device would act like that object so for example you could swing the device and send the object flying in the game or something..
about to try that torn app, and maybe this smurf one but its prob. for kids..
ight im out this blog

Don't overestimate the rankings. Angry birds has been dethroned temporarily many times. To put a finer point on it, all three top rankings are weighted in favor of more recent games. It's a deliberate formula so that more recent games get some publicity and app rankings change exposing more possibilities for customers to Download.

All this means is yes, this app is doing really well right now but it could drop off entirely next month. Time will tell.

It's already down. at least when I checked on my iPhone a few minutes ago it was. Maybe they'll trade spots a lot

If you read the reviews, it seems a lot of people are rather upset about the in-app purchasing. Kids seem to be buying up smurfberries like they're going out of style, without their parents (who apparently pay the bills) being any the wiser... until the bill arrives.