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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds
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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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The fraud detection is especially bad because they have a financial incentive to ignore, or under-report installation fraud.
Exactly! I'd put money on a group abusing it, admitting to abusing it, and the game devs still being charged in the near future.