Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy 433
hypnosec writes with news of a curious way of fighting piracy. From the article: "Android based devices are being activated at the rate of million a day and users are downloading apps and games at a rate never seen before. Despite these promising stats, developers of Android based games and apps are not really keen on porting games and apps that have been successful on iOS to Android. Why? Rampant piracy on Android! Madfinger Games has joined the long list of developers who have recently turned their paid Android based game, Dead Trigger, to a free one. Originally priced at $0.99 on Play Store, the first person shooter game is now available for free . The iOS version of the game still costs $0.99 and hasn't been made free."
Zero-cost, but certainly not Free Software; one has to wonder whether Open Source games with a "donation" build in the store would do better than proprietary games with upfront costs.
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
I need a +1 cranky mod option.
SOPA is coming back (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
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Madfinger Games has joined the long list of developers who have recently turned their paid Android based game, Dead Trigger, to a free one.
Just how many developers have written this one game, then? Oh, and it should be "into a free one."
The iOS version of the game still costs $0.99 and hasn't been made free.
Thanks for clarifying that, because when you said it still costs $0.99 I thought it might also be free.
Re:There is - far less (Score:1, Funny)
If random people with illegitimate copies are allowed to use your servers to patch or for gameplay
And if they're not allowed to use your server, Uniloc will sue you!
Re:There is - far less (Score:5, Funny)
People must be F'in cheap if they aren't willing to spend 99 cents.
To you it may be merely 99 cents but to someone in India it may mean the income of half a day of laborious work
Something is inherently wrong with the society when a person with USD2 a day income is even considering to spend half of his daily income on fruit ninja
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