Light of domestic games destroyed by cracking

 

“ May there be no dream in the long night , May the black star rise as usual ”

This sentence comes from the drama 《 Lord in yellow 》, It's also a game 《ICEY》( Ash ) The lines in the plot . With a novel Meta Elements and clever plot settings , Before official release ,《ICEY》 Namely selected IGF Chinese exhibition works , get IndiePlay Best technology award .

2016 year 11 month 18 Japan ,《ICEY》 launch , It only takes two days to 95% The high praise rate of Steam National service first , And rushed to No. 1 in the global sales list 9 position , The first year of sale includes “taptap Game of the year ” etc. 8 Item Award , Total sales over 150 ten thousand , Praised by players as “ The light of domestic games ”.

《ICEY》 Cumulative sales breakthrough 150 ten thousand  

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And behind the brilliance , But there are countless black hands trying to drag it into the abyss . Only one day after the official launch , Then a website was released 《ICEY》 Download address of cracked version . More magical is , Game developer Mark Trying to protect rights was beaten by website editors with words , In desperation , He chose to expose this behavior .

A stone makes a thousand waves , The incident triggered a heated discussion on the Internet , Players are defending against injustice for developers and supporting 《ICEY》. After the publisher communicates with the website , The cracked version will be off the shelves soon , But because of the unprecedented heat , All kinds of cracking platforms also want to get a piece of it , From then on, a tug of war lasted for several years .

2017 year 10 month 20 Japan ,《ICEY》 Mobile game on the shelf , A cracked version of the platform was released in only one hour , The number of downloads is as high as 23 More than ten thousand times , The loss is incalculable . The publisher has adopted legal means to safeguard its rights , After a year of evidence collection 、 litigation , Finally, the Pirate Party compensated more than 1 million yuan to safeguard its rights , Win the first battle of safeguarding rights in China's game industry . 

 《ICEY》 Successful rights protection

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The good news that people enjoy talking about , The effort behind it is immeasurable . The threshold of legal means to safeguard rights is high 、 It's hard to get evidence 、 The long cycle discourages many developers , producer Mark I mentioned the difficulty of developing games on Weibo more than once 、 The helplessness of being invaded by piracy and the pain of being stigmatized .

We search on Baidu “ AI Xi cracked version ”, Can find 203 Ten thousand related results , Some cracked websites are still updating Games , What's more, it's updated “ Unlimited gold coin 、 Unlimited HP version ”, Its “ Tenacious ” The degree is comparable to that of a small strong .

Updated on a website 《ICEY》 Cracked versions

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The main problem faced by stand-alone games is cracking . If the game code is not encrypted , It is easy to be decompiled and modified by the cracker , After repacking and signing , A pirated game was born .

The emergence of some software has greatly reduced the threshold of piracy , such as MT Manager , With APK Editing function , Can be done DEX edit ,ARSC edit ,XML edit ,APK Signature 、 Remove signature verification, etc .

So how can we prevent the game from being cracked ?

That requires deeper protection of the game code ,FairGuard Original none API Signature verification technology , Start from the bottom , And encrypt the game engine and code , Ensure the safety and intensity of the game , Fundamentally prevent the cracker from a series of operations .

FairGuard Our exclusive technology has been favored by many head manufacturers , Dozens of protected games have not broken the contract again .

Now , stay TapTap On the platform 《ICEY》 Commentary , Many players leave messages “ Played a cracked version of the game that year , Now let's support the ticket replacement ”, There are also those looking forward to the sequel , But it seems that everyone has acquiesced “ Because piracy is rampant , The producer gave up 《ICEY2》”

 TapTap Players on 《ICEY》 The comments

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2022 year , We still haven't waited 《ICEY2》, The black star did rise , But the black hand of piracy took her off .