Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"

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• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This reads like a statement from a vulture capitalist who plans to break up the company and sell the parts to make a quick buck. One would think they would focus on building trust, not giving yet more devs reasons to use a different engine.

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  • Uglyhead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sad thing is, it lets Epic run most of the table now.

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    • codemichael@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think many devs are moving to Godot, but certainly Epic will pick up some market share here.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they really don’t, I’m not sure where you get your information from but epic do not have a majority on anything

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• knF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s all developer’s faults. If they only accepted the fair new pricing policy without protesting, this decision could have been avoided /s

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• HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  layoffs for thee and massive bonuses and golden parachutes for me (me being the execs who made the decision to sink the company)

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• DarkGamer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They did it to themselves. No one will trust them not to change the pricing model again.

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  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the pricing model was a direct consequence of being in bad shape financially.

    But obviously when you shoot yourself in the foot when you are already bleeding, it certainly doesn’t help.

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• AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wikipedia says they lost ~ 900m last year (net).

    they've been on a non-stop buying spree, the recent ipo, and vultures hold a fair chunk of the company. there's probably more than a little pressure to get the books in the black by 'any means necessary'.

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• sirdorius@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This year’s Unity story sums up my discontent with tech nicely. Impressive tech made by extremely talented people, botched by corporate parasites who care only about securing their millions.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, that’s pretty much everything that isn’t tech too.

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    • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t consider growing corn to be all that impressive. The rest holds though.

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• Deadeyegai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And the dumpster fire that is Unity continues…

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don't give a shit what happens to Unity.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unity, as a business, as a stock investment, as a C-suite and board of directors, is rotting in its casket for all I care. I have committed to never buy game built in Unity whose development started after September this year.

    This whole debacle wasn’t an engineering problem; it’s not the software development staff’s fault.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Look what you made me do to myself!!!”

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