Ad Hoc Build, ¿Can you steal a game?

MagoNicolasMagoNicolas Member, PRO Posts: 2,090
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello there, i want to send an ad hoc build to someone, And I was thinking, can someone steal my ad hoc build and somehow transform it to the actual code or something like that?

Thanks.

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  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    No.

    AdHoc builds need real UDIDs and only those devices can run the software.

    You can't reverse engineer a binary file.
  • vegasmike1vegasmike1 Member Posts: 192
    Dont send code to anyone you dont trust, a good hacker can crack almost anything and I am not sure that GS is all that hard to crack. Of the games i have made they are cracked the day I release them on Itunes. So, be careful, it can be cracked.
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    The question is, what he means with "actual code".

    iphone crackers are 14 year old idiots, who could manage to install cydia and can click on the "crackolous" app.

    It takes them one button click to crack it.

    They don't know !@#$% about coding and cracking.

    They also don't alter gamecode, but one file in the ipa. ipa is nothing else than a zip file. You can open it with zip or rar or what you ever use.

    They delete the plist file or change a line in it and that's it.

    They don't do anything with the actual game code.

    As I said, you can't alter or reverse engineer binary files. At least not that easy and for sure not those guys.

    I am still not sure, you can crack an adhoc build, because it is different from an actual appstore build and cracker apps, like crackulous are not built for adhoc apps.

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    And by the way, it doesn't matter if they can crack it or not, because your app will be cracked no matter what. At latest, when it is on the appstore.

    One guy buys it, cracks it and then asks for a refund by apple. They don't need a promo code or an adhoc build or anything else for it.
  • MagoNicolasMagoNicolas Member, PRO Posts: 2,090
    Ok, Thans Again Hunnenkoenig.
  • JohnPapiomitisJohnPapiomitis Member Posts: 6,256
    Hunnenkoenig said:
    The question is, what he means with "actual code".

    iphone crackers are 14 year old idiots, who could manage to install cydia and can click on the "crackolous" app.

    It takes them one button click to crack it.

    They don't know !@#$% about coding and cracking.

    They also don't alter gamecode, but one file in the ipa. ipa is nothing else than a zip file. You can open it with zip or rar or what you ever use.

    They delete the plist file or change a line in it and that's it.

    They don't do anything with the actual game code.

    As I said, you can't alter or reverse engineer binary files. At least not that easy and for sure not those guys.

    I am still not sure, you can crack an adhoc build, because it is different from an actual appstore build and cracker apps, like crackulous are not built for adhoc apps.

    ---

    And by the way, it doesn't matter if they can crack it or not, because your app will be cracked no matter what. At latest, when it is on the appstore.

    One guy buys it, cracks it and then asks for a refund by apple. They don't need a promo code or an adhoc build or anything else for it.

    Indeed, Unfortunatly as long as crackoulous exists any app can be cracked in a matter of seconds with no talent. those buttholes :(
  • MagoNicolasMagoNicolas Member, PRO Posts: 2,090
    I Dont Care about cracking, I care about reverse engineering.
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