Suggestion: new iOS condition for cracked games

[BHGames]

It would be really handy if the iOS object has a new condition like "Binary has been tampered/cracked".

This way, we could implement something like this:

http://modmyi.com/content/3367-piracy-detected-your-cracked-app-now-demo-comments2.html

There's plenty of reads about how to achieve the detection:

http://thwart-ipa-cracks.blogspot.com/2008/11/detection.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/846309/reducing-piracy-of-iphone-applications

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140856/determining-if-an-iphone-is-jail-broken-programatically

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/903157/get-filesize-of-info-plist-to-prevent-piracy

Hope you guys decide to implement it.

[BHGames]

This checking method seems to stay undefeated so far (and it seems quite simple to implement):

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/iphone/iPhone_Preventing_Piracy.20090213.html

For this case the condition for the iOS object should be "Binary is encrypted" or so.

[BHGames]

Can this code be implemented for a "Binary is encrypted" condition/expression?

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/iphone/iPhone_Preventing_Piracy.20090213.html

It would be quite handy to handle piracy.

[netninja]

Personally, I don't think that piracy is actually a big issue, and nothing you can do will change the amount of piracy that occurs, apart from releasing your apps for free to begin with.

People who pirate apps will pirate them no matter what. The people who pirate games/apps are not the same people who buy games/apps.

You should be more concerned with helping the people who are purchasing your game in the first place than trying to punish those who don't buy it.

[RhysD]

putting anti-piracy measures in an average game that doesn't sell well is over the top. drm hurts the people that actually buy your game...and the article you linked is from 2009.

[BHGames]

Could be, but I would like to have that option and decide what to do for future games.

[Kisguri]

I can tell you that once my game hit the pirating world for iOS we did see a dip in sales. Not a huge one but a dip none the less. I don't see how the example provide above is obtrusive to the user in anyway, as the game will function normally unless of course you are playing a hacked version.

But I agree it's low on the importance order for sure.

[BHGames]

I agree.

My intention is not to block UX of buyers, but to display a popup message for pirated ones every now and then like "You have been playing this game for .... please consider buying it".

[Francois]

Not for the first released version, sorry.

[BHGames]

Ok