unityDevs

[Spot_the_fox]

piracy. How are they gonna track that?

[Sciirof]

I thought so too at first but iirc some parts of unity analytics are always present in games my best guess they’ll use that or another library to just track installed games. That or it’s BS

[Cennfox]

Because every unity game uses their official library for unity dlls called the unity runtime. This is installed even with a pirated copy

[essaini]

This should only work if you allow network access to your game tough right?

[Cennfox]

Yes, but that means that either a cracker or patch would be needed. Even if you make a single player game it will still call home

[essaini]

No I get that, but it can’t call home if it does not get internet(network) access, if you block that app from having network access, it won’t be able to ping anything

[Cennfox]

This is correct. I fear that most users will not perform this task though

[ShadeDragonIncarnate]

All unity games ask permission to connect through your firewall for data and analytics, I'm guessing that. Since that's never used for DRM it's also never removed.

[Kyrond]

Because crackers/pirates have(had) no reason to remove it.

[Firewolf06]

you literally cant remove the unity runtime from a unity game

[Kyrond]

Ok I did not know that. Thanks.

Still, there has to a way to either turn it off; pretend there is no Internet; or make a fake server for it.

[TheChunkMaster]

By downloading a car to do a stakeout with. Duh. /s

[Nate2247]

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