Can they tell the differences between installs or can't they? Either way, they're definitely lying to their users.
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Even worse, https://unity.com/pricing-updates is posted on their site:
"We leverage our own proprietary data model and will provide estimates of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project โ this estimate will cover an invoice for all platforms."
Estimating how many copies you sold based on your own 'data models' which is impossible to track? Isn't that like a giant red flag for laundering money?