Whatever metric they use to track installs has to prevent abuse like this

I would be eagerly awaiting a follow-up response from unity from this, because as it stands right now, consensus among gamedev circles is that unity won’t prevent abuse at all, which is just awful for multiple groups of people.

• someone paying for your game and then re-downloading it every hour would cost you $144 a month
• someone paying for your game and then re-downloading it every 5 minutes would cost you $1728 a month
• web games exist, and if the Unity Runtime Download metric is used there, well, that is going to be an expensive bill for anyone putting any sense of monetization in their web game

Yes but actually not by much, !technology@lemmy.world has 37.7k subscribers, which is their biggest community

I used to play burnout paradise vanity pack. Haven’t gotten into it but it seems to be on a revival since players found an older unreleased (and unfinished) version of Big Surf Island

I have a habit of taking casual glances at other people’s phones (don’t @ me), and I can tell you I can count the times I’ve seen someone use an alternative Reddit app on one hand, where as the official Reddit app is semi prevalent.

It’s really just us nerds that make the move to somewhere else, casual users would never have bothered.

I think it will be a long time until you can find casual lifestyle advice on Lemmy, if ever. Most people have a hard time grasping what the fediverse is, why it’s supposed to be good and figuring out how to follow people on mastodon. We’ll stay niche for a while