With that kind of a title you’d think I was about to talk about an awesome game. In fact I AM going to talk about an awesome game and how the developer’s have given up on a title that is pretty damn amazing. The problem? Apparently piracy on the Android platform is so high that they aren’t making back development costs so have unfortunately given up on the title and are making it free.
While the free part you’d think is great news for us that just brings us one less developer who is going to want to continue bringing Android users great games.
Regarding price drop. HERE is our statement. The main reason: piracy rate on Android devices, that was unbelievably high. At first we intend to make this game available for as many people as possible – that’s why it was for as little as buck. – It was much less than 8$ for SHADOWGUN but on the other hand we didn’t dare to provide it for free, since we hadn’t got XP with free-to-play format so far.
However, even for one buck, the piracy rate is soooo giant, that we finally decided to provide DEAD TRIGGER for free. Anyway – DEAD TRIGGER is not FREEMIUM, it always was and still remains FREE-TO-PLAY, that means, all players are able to play it without IAP! We stand up for this statement, because all members of our team are playing (and enjoying) DEAD TRIGGER without IAP.
This is why we can’t have nice things people.
[via: MadFinger Games.]
