Goro Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Gentlemen! by Lucky Frame is a popular indie title for Android tablets, iPad, PC and Mac that has players swap gravity, chuck knives, and send homing pigeons at one another in local multiplayer deathmatches. It has garnered critical praise and the Android version has been downloaded more than 50,000 times - unfortunately, as of four days ago, only 144 of those downloads were legitimate, while the rest were pirated. Yann Seznec, director of Lucky Frame, shared the disparaging data via a Gamasutra blog, where he tried to decipher why things went south. The largest group of pirates, Seznec found, came from Russia and China, where "... most of these pirates probably exist in a commercial ecosystem where the Google Play store does not even exist, and it doesn't occur to them to buy any games from there at all." Seznec also pointed out that the game had some unlikely competition - South Korean singer Psy's hit, "Gentleman" - that made the game difficult to discover thanks to a flood of apps which hoped to capitalize on the song's viral success. The whole story is a bit heartbreaking, and Seznec wrote that for the moment, he doesn't have much of a conclusion to make, but that he and his team have a lot to learn going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/8734-gentlemen-an-android-game-with-997-piracy-rate/#entry174404 Discussing it there. Yeah, it is pretty disgusting that people do this and is absolute proof that piracy hurts developers. Parker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goro Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/8734-gentlemen-an-android-game-with-997-piracy-rate/#entry174404 Discussing it there. Yeah, it is pretty disgusting that people do this and is absolute proof that piracy hurts developers. Parker Sorry, never seen that topic. Locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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