<prompt> Human: My young brother came asking me for help. I am the older one but I cant see a way out of this. He has spent several dollars in this iOS game app. It is like a MMORPG where you buy items and gold to advance faster and to build your in game account. Now the developer announced they will terminate their services and he will not only lose access to his account but obviously all the money used for those purchases will be gone as well. He was playing that for more than a year. Is there anything he could do about getting a refund, perhaps on Apples side? Im guessing the developer wont give a damn about it. The in-game purchases were bought with funds from redeemed itunes gift card, if that info makes any difference. So personally I think that best case scenario he would have credit for the app store, and not actual money back. Anyway, every idea counts, he is really depressed.  <response>: Paying money to play an otherwise free game is a sunk cost.Bye bye money. 