Without pay-wall: https://archive.ph/QnQtX
While I have no sympathy for the upper management behind this stupidity, I would like to remind people to ensure their fire is focused away from developers and other non-management staff. They generally have no say in these calls.
If you have the connections to pull their staff away into jobs at other companies, please do that instead. It may not feel like it, but it will do more long-term damage if you can extract their senior talent.
Death threats are not ok. Maybe just switch to Godot instead.
Do you really believe they received a death threat? I’m calling bullshit on this one.
No idea if it’s real or not to be honest. It seems pretty believable to me on its face but that doesn’t mean it’s legit.
They can stay closed.
im super on the fuck unity train right now but like, real normal people work there that need employ and have families to support. I hope unity changes course due to public sentiment but i don’t really think that death threats forcing an office closed are going to be the way to invite that change
And those people can find employment at a company that isn’t such a piece of shit.
I hope they do. But for now I’d rather them not all lose work overnight, nor do I want all of the indie devs getting blindsided by these changes to unity to have to give up on, port, or delist their projects. I want unity to change for the better more than I want them to crash and burn. But I do think this will serve as an awakening for some segments of the industry to not put all their eggs in one basket with a company as greedy as unity. I hope Godot takes off in use, or Epic keeps using fortnite money to make unreal an attractive development platform and continues to be a good steward of it. That’s wishful thinking though, given the current state of unity lol
They came after gamers
I haven’t considered myself a video gamer since “gamergate” , how is the community so awful?
It’s not. The threats were made by a Unity employee. Check the update. https://www.polygon.com/23873727/unity-credible-death-threat-offices-closed-pricing-change
