That 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 stra

That 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.