In the update for Dead Trigger, Madfinger Games’ newest hit FPS title for Android, a lot of new content came with the game including support for the Adreno 205 GPU which makes it accessible to plenty more Android devices. A price change also came with the update, dropping the price from $0.99 to free which seems to have angered a lot of people who paid for the game initially.
To address the issue regarding the price change and the subsequent angry people who paid a mere $0.99 for Dead Trigger, Madfinger Games released this statement explaining why they decided to drop the price to free:
Regarding price drop. HERE is our statement. The main reason: piracy rate on Android devices, that was unbelievably high. At first we intend to make this game available for as many people as possible – that’s why it was for as little as buck. – It was much less than 8$ for SHADOWGUN but on the other hand we didn’t dare to provide it for free, since we hadn’t got XP with free-to-play format so far. – However, even for one buck, the piracy rate is soooo giant, that we finally decided to provide DEAD TRIGGER for free. Anyway – DEAD TRIGGER is not FREEMIUM, it always was and still remains FREE-TO-PLAY, that means, all players are able to play it without IAP! We stand up for this statement, because all members of our team are playing (and enjoying) DEAD TRIGGER without IAP.
For those of you who are angry at paying $0.99 for Dead Trigger, turn your anger towards the people who pirate the game and other Android games. There really is no reason to pirate Android games at all and coming up with one is just a reason to justify it in the minds of the people who do it. If a game doesn’t support your device right away, wait till it does. Most developers don’t have access to every Android device and the Android SDK can only do so much with its emulator.
If a game never gets support for your device, don’t go pirate a modded version of it. You make a bigger statement by not purchasing and playing the game at all then by pirating it, not to mention it is a lot safer for your device and personal information to not pirate anything. Besides, if you can afford a $600 Android phone, or even a $199 one subsidized through a carrier, you can afford a couple of bucks for a game.
As for Dead Trigger and the price change, $0.99 for a top quality game is nothing and if anything you should feel good about supporting the developers in the hopes that they continue to make more high quality games like Dead Trigger. Stay tuned as we have a Poll question coming up regarding this new development.
Website Referenced: AndroidCommunity
