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I can't find the article right now, but there was recently a game developer that was crippled by piracy. Essentially the online part of the iOS game was swamped
by nwh 14y ago
I can't find the article right now, but there was recently a game developer that was crippled by piracy. Essentially the online part of the iOS game was swamped with pirate users, and there wasn't enough funding from real users for the servers to be sustainable or even worthwhile.
- venomsnake 14y agoThat is a different problem. If people play your game it means you are doing something right, so you must work on your revenue and communication with users strategy. Also if you have client server architecture you have much easier time just discarding the pirate users. If apple prevents you from distinguishing between types of users - that is serious platform deficiency. Otherwise it just requires a DB check before allowing access of the user to the server. There have been cases where a product receives critical acclaim, is widely pirated and failed commercially. XBOX 360 had the ability to pirate games since 2007-ish, and PS3 was much harder in this department. You didn't see abandonment of the X360 platform from the developers.
- nwh 14y agoI don't think the App has any way of knowing if it is running without the proper signing or not. They can try and read outside of their sandbox, but Apple doesn't seem to acknowledge piracy as an issue, so the APi doesn't exist.