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So people are pirating phone games now?
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PumpkinPie
Banned
Phone games don't appear to have any quality control. I'd rather pay £30 for a console game that I know is going to run rather than a £3 phone that has been developed by apes.
WrenchNinja
Member
Fuck yeah I would. Infinite Pizza friday.Lijik said:
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
Pirates gonna pirate.
In their eyes, all those $1 games (which they probably wouldn't have bought in the first place) add up to a bigger overall 'saving'.
In their eyes, all those $1 games (which they probably wouldn't have bought in the first place) add up to a bigger overall 'saving'.
whalleywhat
Member
Or they're just children or other people without money or access to a CC.I NEED SCISSORS said:
Zomba13
Member
I don't see the point in pirating cheap iPhone apps/games though I suppose it's kinda the same like pirating music (a song and an app cost around the same on average). If you can afford however many hundreds of pounds/dollars it is for the smart phone then you should be able to afford the £0.60/1$ per game (I know there are more expensive games available, most are dirt cheap though).
Barberetti
Member
Crunched said:
I wonder how much the person who came up with that shit got paid.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Ever since iPhone jailbreaking first happened, people have been pirating smartphone games.
TheExplodingHead
Banned
To my knowledge this has been going on since the iPhone released, or at least starting getting really widespread.
This is specially true outside the US/Europe/Japan, where few people have credit cards and even when they do, their cards don't work for online purchases because most have cards which cannot make international purchases and the online stores haven't opened branches in their countries.vareon said:
And smartphones are still phones, and for many people the games there are still "phone games". I remember people pirating the fuck out of J2ME mobile games in the pre-smartphone days and they just carry over their "modus operandi" to their new phones.
Heck, it was even easier to pay for J2ME games since carriers would offer games on their portals and buying one would put the charge directly on your phone bill. And people still pirated because they were on prepaid.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
People will always pirate. And they will always try to justify it.
wondermega
Member
I used to get really po'd about this and whined about it on a couple of forums. Everyone would respond "those people would never have paid for your app in the 1st place," which is probably true in several cases - so a developer can't really consider that it is lost profit 
The upside of it is that maybe it will just get more people talking about your app and maybe even result in some actual sales. Anyway there's enough people out there that do pay for apps, that one can make some decent money if they hit the spot properly.
I am in no way condoning piracy, btw. When one of my gf's friends' house got burgled and moaned about it on Facebook, I chuckled to myself "yeah, how does it feel!" (he used to flaunt to me how he refused to ever pay for anything online, and downloaded everything illegally)
The upside of it is that maybe it will just get more people talking about your app and maybe even result in some actual sales. Anyway there's enough people out there that do pay for apps, that one can make some decent money if they hit the spot properly.I am in no way condoning piracy, btw. When one of my gf's friends' house got burgled and moaned about it on Facebook, I chuckled to myself "yeah, how does it feel!" (he used to flaunt to me how he refused to ever pay for anything online, and downloaded everything illegally)
ShockingAlberto
Member
You have no idea how hard I would pirate pizzasLijik said:
I would set up a server specifically downloading pizzas 24/7
drkOne
Member
As an attempt to justify why people pirate $1-2 dollar games is that it adds up, quickly.
The day I got my iPad I got like $80 worth of games and one or two apps Yes, 99 cents add up quickly, with some $5-10 games in the middle.
I also spent around $80 again during christmas time because of the huge wave of discounts And I only got $1-2 games. I doubt I got more than 10 hours out of those, too.
The day I got my iPad I got like $80 worth of games and one or two apps Yes, 99 cents add up quickly, with some $5-10 games in the middle.
I also spent around $80 again during christmas time because of the huge wave of discounts And I only got $1-2 games. I doubt I got more than 10 hours out of those, too.
LightofRohan
Member
I hate the pirates that act like they hacked the pentagon to get an episode of Dexter. And get confused when you said you pay for it, like you don't have the mental ability to hack it for free! It's the easiest thing ever now indays. I think tween girls are the #1 stealers of music even. Some of us just choose to support the industry...
TheChewyWaffles
Member
I have jailbroken my iPhone in the past (but now have beta of ios 5 on it, so no longer) and never pirated a thing. One of the main values I think this gives me is instant updates as soon as a new version of an app is pushed out. I dunno, maybe the pirating community already has that too.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
It's easy to hack all 3 major smartphone platforms. Most cases you plug it into a computer, run a program and BAM! Hacked. Android you just have to enable and click a box. It's much easier.
You have a lot of kids and a lot of people barely coasting by on part time or minimum wage jobs. WP7, ios and Android have hacked markets where you can get almost everything free, making it as easy or easier than the official market.
And this is why you will never see many good games on iOS and Android, so these "Smartphones killing handhelds" should cease.
You have a lot of kids and a lot of people barely coasting by on part time or minimum wage jobs. WP7, ios and Android have hacked markets where you can get almost everything free, making it as easy or easier than the official market.
And this is why you will never see many good games on iOS and Android, so these "Smartphones killing handhelds" should cease.
Apple should make purchased iOS games tied to your Gamecenter handle via some kind of serial code. Then subtly DRM check it when you run a game.
People who pirate games are either poor people or just plain idiots.
"Don't you realise that if everyone did what you do, there would be no games?"
"Herp derp duuuuurrrrrrrp hurp"
People who pirate games are either poor people or just plain idiots.
"Don't you realise that if everyone did what you do, there would be no games?"
"Herp derp duuuuurrrrrrrp hurp"
Callibretto
Member
Barberetti said:
I'm not really sure, people who pirate on $60 game probably won't see the need to stop pirate on a $40 game. better argument is probably that it will used game sales or renting. people who are used to the piracy is still going to pirate it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Piracy has been rampant on cell phones for quite some time. More often than not a game's been pirated more than it's been sold.
angular graphics
Banned
Callibretto said:
There are plenty of people who both pirate and buy depending on the price, quality of the product and the money they can spend of course.
In fact according to Valve's stats 1/3 of gamers on Steam have a popular torrent client installed..
Callibretto
Member
angular graphics said:
how can they know their steam user have torrent client?
whalleywhat
Member
Mark Rein is already figuring out how he's gonna scorn phone gamers.DennisK4 said:
DangerousDave
Member
Zefah said:
When I made my first game, a phone one, i goggled it checking for reviews, and all the first google page was russian phone games piracy forums. At least (checked after using a russian-english translator) they liked the game.
The Steam Hardware & Software SurveyCallibretto said:
a little ot:
I've always thought that it was really ignorant/unfair to assume people with torrent clients on their computer are pirating games.
Sure I "pirate" television shows in order to catch up, but do I consider myself a pirate? no. I have the total hd television/cable/phone package that costs $150 per month, but goddamn is that shitty motorola cable dvr such ass, or that on demand service fucking stupid because they release new episodes 8 days later preventing me from catching up.
I think if cable/broadcasters were would get their head out of their ass and make television watching convenient, (prepare for a figure out of my ass) you would see the prevalence of torrent clients on steam users' computers dwindle below 10%.