▲ 836 ▼ Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz) submitted 2 years ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 232 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] colonial@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Depending on how they generate a hardware fingerprint, fabricating random ones every check is a single LD_PRELOAD (or equivalent) away. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] delcake@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) After Unity's clarifications, I'm honestly kind of expecting the old "null-route the web address in the HOSTS file" to be a valid method to prevent their installer from phoning home to increment the counter. It's gonna be incredible if people start trying that just to frick with Unity. The fact that we can even have this discussion should be proof enough to Unity that it's a complete non-starter of an idea to let user behavior influence the developer bottom-line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] colonial@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn't stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but... like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren't listening to the engineers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] delcake@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) After Unity's clarifications, I'm honestly kind of expecting the old "null-route the web address in the HOSTS file" to be a valid method to prevent their installer from phoning home to increment the counter. It's gonna be incredible if people start trying that just to frick with Unity. The fact that we can even have this discussion should be proof enough to Unity that it's a complete non-starter of an idea to let user behavior influence the developer bottom-line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] colonial@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn't stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but... like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren't listening to the engineers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] colonial@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn't stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but... like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren't listening to the engineers. permalink fedilink source parent