(18/07/2016 06:35 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(17/07/2016 10:39 PM)DataKRASH Wrote:  Apparently the servers are crashing from people who illegally obtained the game since it's not out in their country yet.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to verify the claim.  I would've expected "piracy" to be rather low, for such a casual oriented game.  And piracy is just generally an easy scapegoat to lay blame on.
(not sure if this is exactly piracy, as it's more like a grey import; at least in Australia, using geo-unblocking tools is considered legal (though contract law may get affected; ahh, the joys of laws))

True, it was just a theory I heard and it seemed logical enough. I'm not really trying to blame piracy, because I was one of those people who jumped the gun and downloaded the .apk file from an unofficial source, only for it to be officially released the next day in the US. It is a free game, so I doubt there are as many pirates as people claim.