im gonna miss vrchat and cult of the lamb and among us and kerbal space program and bug fables and oxygen not included and wobbledogs and fall guys and hollow knight and slap city and slayers x and outer wilds and yooka laylee 
Inky | Hapless schmuck, former insomniac, comic nerd, inking enthusiast, writer, enjoyer of nachos. 18+ only
Demos are no longer installs. Is that anything? You like us now?
Uhhh sure whatever we’ll send the bill for thoes installs to Microsoft and not you I’m sure they will just pay up they are chumps lol will you fuck off now?
Okay sure charity bundle installs don’t count. Don’t ask us how were going to track that - just tell us if an earthquake or human rights violation or a war happens or something. It would be a good heads up for sniffing out new DoD contracts too.
Do you self publish? Lol your a distributor now. Does your publisher not have an existing business relationship with us? Uhh I’m sure we can just bill them and it will be fine. I do not see any issues with this plan. It’s foolproof.
There. Unambiguous. Stop complaining.
How could it possibly be wrong?!? Oh yeah, and we’re going to use AI for fraud protection. It’s so neat we just make up a number and bam! A bill aparears monthly on your dashboard! Wild huh! Did I say make up? I meant.. we model a number of installs. Huh? What’s that? The digital store that sells your game has a 90 day payout structure? So you can’t possibly pay monthly for installs if your getting paid out 90 days after a sale? Sounds like a skill issue to me.
Anyways
this is completely fucked in every way and cannot possibly be legal