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Let the wars begin: - Unity itself can hire dark botnets to beef up their profits at any time - game developers need to start selling with the caveat "5 re-in
by beefnugs 3y ago
Let the wars begin:
- Unity itself can hire dark botnets to beef up their profits at any time
- game developers need to start selling with the caveat "5 re-installs included" and of course you change the price to over-sell how many installs the average person does
- game developers are now incentivized to make huge huge huge game downloads for no good reason other than to make people think twice about uninstalling and reinstalling later since it takes so long
- steam and game distribution platforms now need to start limiting re-installs and downloads for everyone, more complexity, more hassle, more bugs
- everyone needs to start running whitelist firewalls again, since automatic private data exfiltration is getting so out of control we need to block all internet access by default now
- gmerc 3y agoThis exactly (minus the huge downloads, no point). If they were successful with their “trust us, we can magically figure out number of installs” game; the incentives of the entire industry would be reconfigured to the 2000s of EA downloader expiring your purchase after 5 installs. We can thank the heavens for Steam to murder that in its crib and we can hope they, still privately owned, won’t be tempted by the ultimate sin here.