October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »
Lately, there have been a lot of stories where developers complaint over iPhone piracy. Some of them are long time mobile game developers and that made me wonder… is Piracy a problem? Is it even that new?
In my career, covering various mobile gaming companies, I had a few times the joy to present the company on a D2C games event. Even in the early days, consumers would walk up to me saying 'I've got all your games, see!' and when I asked where they where bought, the answer would most often be something like 'I found them on some Russian site where I get all my games'. In fact, pretty much every smart kid I met on those events loaded pirated games on their handsets because it was easy or because they though a game wasn't worth