Gamers: pointlessly sacrificing the moral high ground since 2014.
Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes
Submitted 9 months ago by Namahanna@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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Ertebolle@kbin.social 9 months ago
pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Fuck a moral high ground
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Death threats? Really now…
This is pathetic. Why send death threats because a company made a change to their product. Why are these people so entitled? Or maybe they just know there are no consequences to their actions so they behave in a shitty manner. If you don’t like the changes then use a different product.
stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 9 months ago
First time on the internet? That’s all they do and swat people which results in real deaths. This isn’t anything new, same ol vile behavior that police do handle and do punish for because phone lines are not secure.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How to destroy your company 101
snek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is this because the gaming community has an unfortunate number of hateful trolls or what exactly?
Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
It’s because of loose definitions of “death threats” and the fact that when you piss off millions of people a couple of them are bound to tweet “i hope u die” at a ceo
snek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If they had to close their offices, I think that’s a good indication of it being serious.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fucking g*mers.
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
1v1 me?!
excel@lemmy.megumin.org 9 months ago
Any time a gaming company does something stupid, leave it to gamers to out-stupid the company and prove that they deserved to get shit on in the first place
blazera@kbin.social 9 months ago
Nice to see some repercussions for corporate greed
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A sane response from the gamer community as usual.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Man, I wish people put this kind of effort into more important shit. Shitty wages, inhospitable environment incoming, and useless CEO fucks causing it all, BUT DAMN YOU UNITY!
donuts@kbin.social 9 months ago
Godot users don't give death threats, just saying.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gamers and death/rape threats. Is there a more iconic combo?
But yeah. Most likely this is just stupid kids. But need to take everything seriously because you never know when it is actually going to be a real threat.
Countdown to “Waaaa. #NotAllgamers!!!”
Korkki@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Holy shit! I knew people got pissed, but this…🤣
Despite it’s illegality. it’s a type of protest. Better that being pissed off in twitter and the still cucking to unity in the end, but worse that just stopping using unity and porting existing games off the engine. Still, not everybody can still just do that, this is why something like this is understandable. Imagine being a indie dev team years in development with mounting costs and backers expecting a product and you expecting return for your work and then unity turns ups the leeching and fucking up your calculations and forcing you either to delay the launch, pay the financial cost of that delay, port to a different engine and learn a new skillset for that engine or bite the bullet and pay. Also Imagine the unity devs who will be out of a job because of this.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sorry, did you just say that sending death threats is better than being angry on the internet?
Korkki@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you want to to change something then yes. A empty performance that the target can ignorance is worse than doing nothing, because then you falsely think “you at least did something”.
Illegality of methods does not make the cause unjust, since many unjust things in this world are completely legal and will get you imprisoned or killed if you oppose them. The most extreme example of illegality vs injustice was that in 1940s Europe it was highly illegal to protect jews from being hunted down and killed.
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not sure that I have a lot of sympathy for devs who entered into a contract with a for profit company, who are now changing the playing field.
Open source software or bust.
anlumo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Big corporations need service contracts. If something in the engine is broken where it impacts the game in development, engineers are flown in to fix it at the customer’s site (if that’s necessary). That’s not something available with most open source tools.
nodsocket@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Relax it’s just a game
MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not a game it’s a game engine, atleast get it right
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm sure they got a threat, but I'm also sure it's not the first one they've ever gotten and I'd suspect the offices don't usually close and press event get canceled. Again, I'm sure they got a threat, but they're sure going to use it to get to the "be the victim" stage of the PR cycle where they get to hide for a few days while a segment of the media clutches their pearls about how the backlash has gone too far and defends Unity. This is the part where Unity talks a lot about their employees and how much they care about them to put them front and center as a shield from criticism for executive's decisions.
This shit has gotten so predictable.
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Hopefully no one tries to kill the rank & file employees who have no decision-making power. Save it for the execs!
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Or just don’t send death threats… what a bunch of petulant lunatics people are.
Disagree and express your disagreement, don’t use the opportunity express your violent inner child.