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Reading this on the face of it... - What about pirated copies? - What about maliciously installed copies? (4chan: "alright frens, time to install-bomb <gamewe

Reading this on the face of it... - What about pirated copies? - What about maliciously installed copies? (4chan: "alright frens, time to install-bomb <gamewehate.exe>! Remember to click the IP address rotation button each time!"

teraflop 3y ago
And even if you assume they only charge for legitimate, authorized installations -- what about free demos? This seems to create a massive disincentive to make those available.
- gs17 3y ago
  I think demos would be fine, if you create a separate project for the demo. It's effectively a separate game with no revenue. Development builds, on the other hand, would be the same game.
  - Karliss 3y ago
    Information provided by Unity says that they can merge numbers for multiple games if they decided that they are sufficiently similar. So clever tricks of making separate game will not work. It depends on how greedy they are whether Unity will apply this rule to demos.
danjoredd 3y ago
I posted this update in a discord server and that was the first thing a friend of mine said. Said "Great, lets reinstall [game they don't like but I won't name here] over and over again!" There is a real risk of this happening.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  I have spare SSD drives I'm willing to burn out. Fuck review bombing, this is definitely the way to go to disincentivize bad game publisher behavior.
  - hightrix 3y ago
    You probably wouldn't need to install the entire game, possibly just install the first bits and then cancel. I'm sure our wonderful friends over at 4chan and other places full of honorable, upstanding citizens will come up with some interesting ideas.
    - mrguyorama 3y ago
      I cannot wait. Allowing us to directly punish game devs and ruin their business is the most consumer friendly thing anyone has done in this space!
      - dang 3y ago
        Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

teraflop 3y ago

And even if you assume they only charge for legitimate, authorized installations -- what about free demos? This seems to create a massive disincentive to make those available.

gs17 3y ago
I think demos would be fine, if you create a separate project for the demo. It's effectively a separate game with no revenue. Development builds, on the other hand, would be the same game.
- Karliss 3y ago
  Information provided by Unity says that they can merge numbers for multiple games if they decided that they are sufficiently similar. So clever tricks of making separate game will not work. It depends on how greedy they are whether Unity will apply this rule to demos.

danjoredd 3y ago

I posted this update in a discord server and that was the first thing a friend of mine said. Said "Great, lets reinstall [game they don't like but I won't name here] over and over again!" There is a real risk of this happening.

mrguyorama 3y ago
I have spare SSD drives I'm willing to burn out. Fuck review bombing, this is definitely the way to go to disincentivize bad game publisher behavior.
- hightrix 3y ago
  You probably wouldn't need to install the entire game, possibly just install the first bits and then cancel. I'm sure our wonderful friends over at 4chan and other places full of honorable, upstanding citizens will come up with some interesting ideas.
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    I cannot wait. Allowing us to directly punish game devs and ruin their business is the most consumer friendly thing anyone has done in this space!
    - dang 3y ago
      Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.