Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Still an enormous nope. Both for the developers and the users. How do you check if a game has already been installed once? What data are you gonna steal to check if it has been installed already?

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      1 year ago

      Lol get this, I don’t know if I heard right, but the install count was based on their own telemetry added to the game. SO if someone pirated your game, it could still count as an install.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yep. Unity gets to decide how much you owe them. And there’s no way you can verify that they’re telling the truth.