I’ll reiterate that, to the best of my understanding using the documents that became public during Epic Games v. Apple, the developers are paid a lump sum in advance, so (the possessed corpse of) ZA/UM shouldn’t see any additional benefit from you claiming the game as long as you don’t inexplicably opt-in to their mailing list. I’ve also not seen any evidence to support the hypothesis that claiming and installing is any different from claiming but not installing, which should make sense if you look at the data from Epic in the linked comment.
They still get the data about installs and can hype their shareholders like “look how many people love our game, our next game will be a hit so please don’t shut us down”.
I’ll reiterate that, to the best of my understanding using the documents that became public during Epic Games v. Apple, the developers are paid a lump sum in advance, so (the possessed corpse of) ZA/UM shouldn’t see any additional benefit from you claiming the game as long as you don’t inexplicably opt-in to their mailing list. I’ve also not seen any evidence to support the hypothesis that claiming and installing is any different from claiming but not installing, which should make sense if you look at the data from Epic in the linked comment.
They still get the data about installs and can hype their shareholders like “look how many people love our game, our next game will be a hit so please don’t shut us down”.