![]() Admittedly it hasn’t been downloaded more than the actual version just yet, but a cracked APK of the store version has already popped up online to counter the fake one. We distributed the APK days before the Android launch to a number of Torrent sites and direct download forums and watched as our torrents started seeding soon after. Once players die they are encouraged to check out the full version of the game and help the developers out by purchasing the retail copy. If they do manage to defeat them, then the final boss approaches who has unlimited health. Firstly players must defeat a wave of bosses that have an obscene amount of health. ![]() Not unlike Game Dev Tycoon, we modified the game so that once players hit boss 3, they are confronted with “Premium Funk”, a new boss wave not found in the retailer version. With all that in mind, we decided it would be fun to get ahead of this trend by pirating our own version of Shooting Stars! as a bit of a marketing experiment. Regardless, knowing that the game was pirated and played 10x more than purchased from the store stings a bit no matter how you slice it. And an argument can be made that having them at least play the game helped generate buzz for potential purchases from friends or new games from us down the road. Now we aren’t inferring that we are missing out all that potential revenue because many of those players would probably have never bought the game to begin with. Some cracked versions might have taken out those reporting tools. And that is just the installs we are tracking. Our analytics show that 11% of all installs of the game have been paid for. We launched Wayward Souls, one of the biggest, best reviewed premium games from Rocketcat Games one year ago to Android. With Android though, one of the harsh realities is we see rampant piracy compared to iOS with our paid titles.Ĭase in point. With Shooting Stars! we went premium at $2.99 on iOS because we believe that there is still a market for premium titles and felt like Shooting Stars! fits that niche. You might also know that the state of paid games on mobile is going the way of the dinosaur and it is getting harder and harder to get players to actually buy games, even for the low low price of $0.99. We applaud Pixel Piracy and will grant them the added publicity by providing a direct link to their Desura and Steam Greenlight page.As you might know we recently launched a fun new shoot’em up with the team at Bloodirony called Shooting Stars!. Kids are poor and they like video games, it makes sense that they will find a way to get what they want. As teens we here at Gamecrastinate shamefully pirated everything we could get our hands on because we were poor teenagers so we get it. Regardless of intent offering up legitimately free copies of your creation is a bold move that hopefully will pay off for them. No doubt Pixel Piracy’s developers took note of all the hype and decided to try to grab some for their creation. Game Dev Tycoon gained a huge amount of publicity for their what would be otherwise unknown game even though their ironically ripped off the design from Kairosoft’s Game Dev Story. ![]() This is a bit of the opposite as the Pixel Piracy devs openly say they want to assist those that would pirate the game regardless by ensuring they are virus free. Some readers may remember the whole Game Dev Tycoon fiasco from earlier in the year where the devs of that game released tainted copies on major torrent sites. It’s a bold step and maybe a bit of a publicity stunt but hell if you’re going to make a video game about pirates you might as well embrace the modern day definition as well. The guys behind Steam greenlit game Pixel Piracy decided to take matters into their own hands and have begun seeding an official torrent for their game.
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