Rally Master Pro plagued with 95% piracy
Fishlabs had high hopes for the App Store release of Rally Master Pro. It was awarded Best Mobile Game of 2008 by Pocket Gamer, and has since been the subject of talk as far as iPhone racers were concerned. The good news: a lot of people are playing it. The bad news: 95% of those people are playing pirated copies.
Fishlabs had high hopes for the App Store release of Rally Master Pro. It was awarded Best Mobile Game of 2008 by Pocket Gamer, and has since been the subject of talk as far as iPhone racers were concerned.
The good news: a lot of people are playing it. The bad news: 95% of those people are playing pirated copies.
Mobile Entertainment got in touch with Fishlabs CEO Michael Schade to talk about the matter. “We track UDID’s [unique device identifiers] anonymously per day, deduct the reported sales and we have the number of pirated downloads,” he says. “In this case, many thousands on day one.” Schade, through the Touch Arcade forums, also expressed his disappointment in the turn of events. “it makes it very hard to believe in the future of the App Store, sometimes,” he posted.
While there are ways and means to combat piracy, it seems that illicit activity still has the upper hand. Mobile Entertainment reports that indie Developer Smells Like Donkey experienced 80% piracy for Tap-Fu, while ngmoco is looking at 50-80% piracy when its games launched in the App Store.
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