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I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but for anyone wondering:

"How will Unity track installs?"

> We leverage our own proprietary data model, so you can appreciate that we won't go into a lot of detail, but we believe it gives an accurate determination of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project.[1]

[1] https://x.com/unity/status/1701689241456021607?s=20

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Also, from the unity forums:

> Q: If a user reinstalls/redownloads a game / changes their hardware, will that count as multiple installs?

> A: Yes. The creator will need to pay for all future installs. The reason is that Unity doesn’t receive end-player information, just aggregate data.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packa...

So a subreddit could band together and bankrupt a developer by buying their games and scripting an uninstall/reinstall process.

Someone’s going to break the system, “install” random games 1,000-1,000,000 times, and Unity’s going to have to salvage some metrics and defend their accuracy in court and public.

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