According to what Unity reps said elsewhere, they have no way of knowing what's a bought install, what's a demo, what's a charity bundle, what's a pirated install, and what is someone loading a webpage with a WebGL program integrated (every page view = 1 install).
Instead, they want to estimate how much people owe them. Using secret methods with no accountability.
Now I can finally download a game 100000x to bankrupt a game company, just like they always said we could.
RED FLAGS!! red flaaags. RED FLAAAGS, get your red flags heeeeere folks 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
It would mean every Unity game was not-so-secretly shipped with code that phones home to the Unity company upon install.
Either they've been egregiously spying on gamers for years (and by extension, game developers using Unity have just been fine with that), or they're lying through their teeth.
I love their response to (paraphrasing) "Are you going to do another Darth Vader and alter the deal on us in the future?" - "Oh yes, potentially every year."
Why couldn't someone set up a script to install, uninstall, and reinstall Unity games on a loop? That would fuck with their numbers hardcore.
If they could tell an install is pirated then they would lock it down
They either count all installs as legitimate or pirated copies are not picked up by their telemetry
All points made in that post are LMAO.
They estimate the installs. Or least thats what remains between they wont track installs and they have a proprietary data model to calculate them.
Enshittification takes its course.
Can I pirate just the Unity bits, so they don't telemetrize?
Which company will become insolvent 1st, Twitter or Unity?
Oh it's our fault for being confused is it, ok.
What a jackass.
Oh and look at that they are 100% going to increase the price on you down the line.
No, they can not. This is just a standard PR response.
So those who aren't victims of piracy will be "fairly hurt"?
Unity jumped the shark.
Engine was trash anyway. Unreal for lyfe.
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