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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No, they have some magical "proprietary method" for determining those, with additional hand-waving for not counting "illegitimate" installs. Translation: they pull these numbers out of their ass, fuck you.

A pre-sale cut could be considered "reasonable" since there's a paper trail with real numbers that basically everyone can agree on. Unity is just trying to muddy the waters.