Available on Apple's iOS App Store for less than a week, Battle Dungeon has abruptly been pulled by its developers after their servers were overloaded with users who illegally pirated the game. "The high load revealed technical issues which we don't feel we can fix to the level that our paying customers deserve," Hunted Cow Studios said in a statement. The studio has released a small number of iOS games to this point, but it wasn't until the debut of its first multiplayer-focused title that the magnitude of piracy across Apple's platform became apparent.
"Around 90 percent of our signups were coming from pirated copies."
In a message on Hunted Cow's forums, senior developer Wayne Robinson revealed that approximately 90 percent of...
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