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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they have the web play question in their FAQ somewhere and it does include as a download. There's no real way to know how their telemetry is calculating this though.

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Q: Does this affect WebGL and streamed games?

A: Games on all platforms are eligible for the fee but will only incur costs if both the install and revenue thresholds are crossed. Installs - which involves initialization of the runtime on a client device - are counted on all platforms the same way (WebGL and streaming included

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates.1482750/

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Wow... I expect that WebGL telemetry to be less reliable than from an installed app. "No cookies found, guess this is a brand new download, chaps!"