Our games gets hacked and cracked
skott
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Hi,
Almost after we have released drift 'n' burn we have seen that it's on various crack sites.. I think it's a bit funny and are taking it cool (It's kind of a compliment that they spend there time doin it to our game).. but at the same time it's not fair and it's a shame that we are loosing money because of that.
Have others experienced the same??
Here are the link to one of the sites: http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=22223
Almost after we have released drift 'n' burn we have seen that it's on various crack sites.. I think it's a bit funny and are taking it cool (It's kind of a compliment that they spend there time doin it to our game).. but at the same time it's not fair and it's a shame that we are loosing money because of that.
Have others experienced the same??
Here are the link to one of the sites: http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?t=22223
Comments
I wouldn't say it is a serious threat to revenue though, as the people downloading your game for free are probably too poor to buy it in the first place... ;-)
Looks like a great game by the way, website looks great as well
that being said, it seems to be to be caused when you give away those promo codes for free on websites, the lurkers grab them, crack them, and post it. It's a tight rope, you need those promo codes for reviews, but you gotta be careful on how you give them away.
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I guess I'm only emailing out promo codes now...
Apple needs to get their act together.... and fix this.... I'm sure this hurts all of us in one way shape of another....
On my pocket pc games I made I had to spend a ton of time developing securty. I had to code a program that I put on each game that verified the game with the name on your pocket pc. Plus when I sold the game I had to have it generate a code for each person. It was a real hassle. Plus somebody could just change the name on their device if they really wanted the game for free.
I sold my pocket pc games for around 8 bucks. This was standard at the time as many pocket pc games were selling for 20 bucks or so. Saving 20 bucks on a game by stealing it instead of paying for it was a temptation people would be willing to put a little effort into.
However, apple has created a entirely new way to fight piracy. They simply make a easy way for tons of developers to put apps up all in one place. This competition drives prices down to the bare minimum of 99 cents. Many people are not willing to learn how to jailbreak their phones and download pirated apps when it will only cost them a buck to actually purchase the game.
This is actually a good way to deal with the piracy problem. Sure about 50 percent of the people using your app didn't pay for it, but like someone else said, you are really not losing anything, in fact your game may actually become more popular.
When you have new pc games coming out at 50 bucks, its much more tempting to spend a little time to get a pirated copy and save $50.
Crackers will always find a way to crack your program no matter what type of security you have on it. It is a nightmare developing security for a program, then having someone crack it, then developing new security, then having someone crack that and so on.
It's much less time consuming and easier to just sell it cheap and make money with a high volume of sells at low prices rather than a low volume of sales at higher prices.
I got a kick out of it
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