• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    Oh yeah… I can’t see this being weaponed by the bad side of the consumers.

    Game comes out, it does something stupid or just “woke” and pisses people off. They attack the dev by installing more copies. Company goes bankrupt. Dickhead gamers win.

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      1 year ago

      I got some clarifications from Unity regarding their plan to charge developers per game install (after clearing thresholds)

      • If a player deletes a game and re-installs it, that’s 2 installs, 2 charges
      • Same if they install on 2 devices
      • Charity games/bundles exempted from fees

      Regarding this being abused by bad actors:

      Unity says it will use fraud detection tools and allow developers to report possible instances of fraud to a compliance team

      - @stephentotilo

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      1 year ago

      Also, what counts as an install? Ive seen many unity based games that don’t have an installer and just run standalone? Would a standalone game count as already installed? Is it a first run thing in that case? Honestly this, and the additional clarification raises more questions than it answers?