[SOLVED] Are activations per device, per app, a combination?

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I renewed my Object Desktop and noticed I had 2 out of 5 current activations, a Start11 on my home productivity station and my game PC.

I then installed Fences on my productivity PC and noticed I now had 3 out of 5 activations.

Does this mean I can activate 5 apps total, even if some of them are on the same system? When I read "With an Object Desktop subscription, you can install our applications on up to five devices." I figured it meant you can have a maximum of 5 devices, but you can install the apps from the suite on all those devices (which is the main selling point of a "suite" after all).

But the way it is behaving now I can not even install all the apps from the suite on a single device since there are more than 5 apps.

Can somebody explain how this works? Did I get it correct? Do I get a maximum of 5 apps activated even if they are on the same device? That would really suck, since Start11, Groupy and Fences would make 6. And that's not even considering playing with multiplicity.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
For Object Desktop you will have 5 activation per application. There is an error on total activation count on Object Desktop page. As an example, on my page it shows something like screenshot below.

As for the activation count on systems. It count one activation count per system. For example if you have a PC that on it you have 4 virtual machine running Windows system and on all 5 system you have Fences 5 running (1 main + 4 Virtual) that will count as 5 activation for Fences. And if install in only 4 system Start11v2, that will count as another 4 activation. etc etc. Hope that answer your question.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Ah, so it is a bug? If I install Fences, Start11 and Groupy on 2 devices it counts as 2 activations, 1 per device, for each of those apps? All apps have their own activation count? If so, thank you. That makes me feel a lot better.

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes, that is correct.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant