Tilt to live hd -> free

[Royce]

Wow that's shady as hell. Totally changes my perspective on this dev. Unless... is there any way they could have removed the IAP and tried making it a paid game, then decided to go back to demo with IAP?

[Filing Cabinet]

Originally Posted by Royce

Wow that's shady as hell. Totally changes my perspective on this dev. Unless... is there any way they could have removed the IAP and tried making it a paid game, then decided to go back to demo with IAP?

yeah, you could do that.

but that's not a great thing to do, because users who would have bought the full game when it was paid, will not be able to reinstall without losing the full game unlock.

Tilt to Live is a pretty well known game, I doubt the dev would need to resort to doing such things.

[EfratBarTal]

Lol I posted about this earlier today and realized it was an IAP and told a mod to delete the thread

[HerbertKornfeld]

Some perspective, for all the haters crying foul:

July 13, 2012: In-app purchase hack revealed. [source]
July 14, 2012: Tilt to Live HD, with in-app full game unlock, is no longer free. [source]

Nothing shady. The developers were just trying to keep food in the fridge. Moving on.

[AnarKitty]

Originally Posted by HerbertKornfeld

Some perspective, for all the haters crying foul:

July 13, 2012: In-app purchase hack revealed. [source]
July 14, 2012: Tilt to Live HD, with in-app full game unlock, is no longer free. [source]

Nothing shady. The developers were just trying to keep food in the fridge. Moving on.

Post of the day. Succinct and well said.

[Connector]

Originally Posted by HerbertKornfeld

Some perspective, for all the haters crying foul:

July 13, 2012: In-app purchase hack revealed. [source]
July 14, 2012: Tilt to Live HD, with in-app full game unlock, is no longer free. [source]

Nothing shady. The developers were just trying to keep food in the fridge. Moving on.

So what you are saying is that they raised the price temporarily to fight the inapp Russian hack, and now they have basically made it back as it was which was free with an inapp to unlock it to full? This is not a temporary free like other apps on this section of the forum, right? If so, I see nothing wrong with their price hike and drop.

[Drummerboycroy]

Originally Posted by AnarKitty

Post of the day. Succinct and well said.

I could have done without the needlessly provocative flame-bait part, but sure...

DBC

[CygnetSeven]

If that logic prevails, then if they raised the price to counter the hack, then shouldn't they have made the IAP free?

[HerbertKornfeld]

Originally Posted by CygnetSeven

If that logic prevails, then if they raised the price to counter the hack, then shouldn't they have made the IAP free?

This makes no sense. They didn’t raise the price just for the hell of it, they raised the price to avoid being defrauded.

And never mind that dropping their in-app unlock would have required significant development effort, and that it would have taken weeks to rearchitect and to get approved. Had they magically snapped their fingers and simultaneously dropped the in-app unlock, their game would have been suddenly free, in its entirety, for every user who ever downloaded what’s essentially the trial version of this game.

Why would they do this? This is a premium title, and hopefully it’s making premium dollars. Why would they give it away for free, legally, to everybody, when the whole reason I’m speculating that they raised the price was to avoid giving it away for free to a tiny subset of users that might’ve otherwise pirated the app.

Think.

[Connector]

Originally Posted by Drummerboycroy

I could have done without the needlessly provocative flame-bait part, but sure...

DBC

Think.