Dead Trigger F2P move on iOS was also down to piracy

Madfinger Games recently made a big noise about "unbelievably high rates of piracy" found on the Google Play store, claiming it was the reason why the company switched the game to F2P.

This was swiftly followed up by the news that the iOS version also became a freemium title yesterday, however in this case the company kept strangely quiet as to why.

Now it seems that, once again, high piracy rates were the catalyst for the move.

In an interview with Gamezebo, CEO of Madfinger Marek Rabas explained why this came about, saying, "why dwell on the fact that 80% to 90% of the people do not respect your hard work and steal the game?

"Games are always stolen, there is not much we can do about it. I do not believe that piracy can be stopped. At the very least though, we can make it not as easy as it is at the moment."

Rabas also made a direct link between the number of jailbroken devices and the level of piracy on iOS, saying that, "some jailbreak users are paying for games ... but [this] could be around 1 per cent at the most".

The reason why piracy on both systems exists, meanwhile, is because it's "definitely more easy than setting up an account on iTunes or Google Play, filling out large forms and answering all security questions."