I think there's little way around the model itself being very bizarre? Unity asserts they'll be able to reliably track a number of installs that accounts for tr

I think there's little way around the model itself being very bizarre? Unity asserts they'll be able to reliably track a number of installs that accounts for trolls, multiple downloads, and also carves out exemptions for charity, demos, etc. all while not collecting predatory amounts of information on each install. I'm virtually certain it's a complete fabrication; that their entire model (and, by proxy, the health of entire companies) relies on this claim is deeply worrying. Unity's model is still WAY kinder than Unreal's for virtually all pay-upfront games, but there are degenerate failure cases, particularly around f2p mobile games, where you're on the hook for catastrophic amounts of money; Unity's seeming unkindness around that (e.g. not implementing a 5% revenue cap, like Unreal) is also concerning, and I'm not really sure why they're not handling this with more care.