Dead Trigger goes free on iOS too

[garyopa]

Apparently, piracy is also a problem there...



Madfinger Games has announced that 'Dead Trigger' is becoming free on iOS as well.
How does the company feel about piracy on Apple's mobile platform?

As you may remember, Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile FPS Dead Trigger, earned a "fair bit" of notoriety recently by making the game "free" on Android in response to the "extremely high" piracy rate on the platform.

Well, it looks like the same game is also becoming free on iOS, and while there are no grandstanding claims this time around, the reason seems to be the same...

CEO Marek Rabas has said that "the number of pirates on iOS is comparable with the amount of jailbroken devices." In general, Rabas is disappointed with the lack of protection both Google and Apple are providing for hard-working game devs like himself...

Ultimately, this seems like a simple case of a company moving over to a pure freemium model and providing price parity across operating systems — Dead Trigger's real income has always been generated through in-app purchases and upgrades. Players who already bought the game at its previous $0.99 price will be compensated with a helping of in-game loot, but many will feel Madfinger has been less than upfront about its reasons now that it's treated Android and iOS the same way, but openly criticized only one of the two mobile OS leaders.

So, do you think the announcements of both versions becoming free were just a PR tactic to bring more people into the game for in-app purchases? Be sure to share your thoughts below!

NEWS SOURCE: Dead Trigger free iOS (via) TheVerge

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[Battlefield]

This dev is damn sneaky.

Earlier they sold the game at a low price.. Thats ok. At the same time, it was a F2P game already.

You can install the game for free, but the in-game shop is still there which charges you with real money.
The game have always been F2P, but you needed to buy it for a small feee to install it.

[tech3475]

A couple of years ago saurik (of cydia) gave a quote of iirc around 10% of devices being jailbroken, unless the situation has changed allot since I reckon this dev still has a very large market of users who can't pirate this game.

I also doubt every jailbroken device is used for piracy, at least it isn't in my case.

I go by the philosophy that pirates will pirate anything, it's all about keeping the ratio down by getting legit users.

I reckon this dev is just spouting BS especially since it should have been freemium from the start from what I've read about the game and probably to publicise the game.

[Battlefield]

A couple of years ago saurik (of cydia) gave a quote of iirc around 10% of devices being jailbroken, unless the situation has changed allot since I reckon this dev still has a very large market of users who can't pirate this game.

I also doubt every jailbroken device is used for piracy, at least it isn't in my case.

I go by the philosophy that pirates will pirate anything, it's all about keeping the ratio down by getting legit users.

I reckon this dev is just spouting BS especially since it should have been freemium from the start from what I've read about the game and probably to publicise the game.

In other words. They got millions worth of marketing for free.
I think they did it on purpose, because i bet the userbase increased atleast 10.000 times only to tell that their freemium game is free. Looking at the quality of the game, i can understand why they usually charged 1 buck for the "free game".

Bad publicity is good publicity in most cases.