The permissions set in the App Settings are not applied to the app. They are used for logins triggered from the App Center by the Play Game
/Go to App
buttons – since that is a mechanism where you as the app developer don’t trigger/implement the login yourself, you can not set a scope parameter there; and therefore you make those settings in your app dashboard, so that Facebook knows what permissions to ask for when the user enters your app this way. - Info by CBroe.
For the permissions be applied in your app, you should set the permissions through your code. The permissions are set while implementing the login
functionality. For eg: In Javascript, it is done like this: FB.Login