Piracy on Android is still flourishing

Gentlemen! - a new game from the Scottish studio Lucky Frame, which was released for Android and iOS last week. She gathered positive reviews plurality reviewers mention in one of the British newspapers and thousands of players worldwide.

But all is not so great for Lucky Frame. The fact that only 50 (!) Players on Android faithfully paid for a $ 5 game. The rest of 6000 it was stolen.

These figures - a cruel reminder that Android still dominates piracy, so it is not surprising that more and more developers switches to model freemium. Now developers Lucky Frame learned this hard lesson. However, do not lose optimism in the studio:
"The main thing we want to say is that the statistics pleases us, - said the head of Jan Seznec studio - In addition to high extent of piracy, the rate of involvement of the players is very high, so our game Pirates are not just so, and to really play into it. We made a great game and people everywhere are playing it, it's good. "

Of course, a lot of constantly playing the game in your people is a good thing, but the fact that the efforts of Lucky Frame, spent on creating great product did not pay off on Android.

Do Gentlemen! more than 6,000 players in the Google platform, but it has brought its creators only about $ 250 - and that's without taking into account the share of Google and other charges.

The problem of piracy on Android is unlikely to disappear in the foreseeable future. «Open"Google approach is the ease with which the user can install games and applications on their own, bypassing Google Play, and because it can install pirated software, which is easy to get, Googling any application name with the prefix «APK».

Of course, on iOS, things are different. Apple's approach quite the opposite, so iPhone and iPad users have to perform jailbreak their devices to install the application is not the App Store. And even in this case, the search for jailbroken iOS-app is much more difficult than in the case with Android.

However, the success of Gentlemen! on iOS still quite modest, it bought only a couple of hundred times, but Lucky Frame believe that this is only the beginning and the number of players will grow over the next few weeks.

So if you ever thought about why most of the Android application is free and is provided with advertising, the case of Gentlemen! will explain to you why the developers have chosen this path for their products. However, Lucky Frame has no plans to stop working with Android, but they are unlikely to re-launch a paid game.

"Of course, there are other, more effective ways to get people to pay for the application, but we are quite cautious and do not want use the model of "pay to win" - says Seznec, - "So we will try different approaches and see how they will be work."

It remains to add that Gentlemen! - a great game for two players in which they will have a duel with knives, bombs and even hand-pigeons. Great graphics and sound, addictive gameplay - in general, this game is definitely worth the five dollars.