Car Jack Streets, the GTA style top-down steal-em-up that was released just a few days ago has already been cracked and placed on to popular torrent sites. A couple of hours ago, TAG Games twittered;
SHOCKING! Looks like sales of Car Jack Streets are less than a THIRD of total users. That is a massive proportion of piracy.
So from those stats, it looks as though quite more and more users are using their jailbroken iPhones/iPods to grab a few free games and steal (quite literally) profit from indie developers that need it the most. Treat this as a call to arms; if you have $4.99 available, go and plonk in down on Car Jack Streets, then tell your friends to do the same.
This is just plain depressing.
Agreed. Downloading an Abandonware game is one thing, but this is just taking a dump on the people that really deserve the cash.
I don't know if this is really all that depressing when PC games like Demigod are doing like 5x pirated copies than sold copies – it's bad, but pirates are pirates, this was a highly anticipated title, I wouldn't be too worried about this one, but people who have read anything I write on the subject know that I tend to be more optimistic on piracy issues and their actual effects than most..