Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision

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• nobleshift@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “we are not achieving the synergies that exist across our portfolio, and we are not executing to our full potential.”

  They’re doomed.

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  • bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Holy fuck that’s a real quote lol

    MBAs are a scourge on humanity

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Translation for those unfamiliar with MBA speak.

      “The executive team are all fucking morons and screwed up a easy cash cow. So now we are going layoff the people who didn’t kiss our asses properly.”

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow that's a real quote. Marketing bros are literally cancer.

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course they don’t see synergy. The vast majority of Unity game developer will never need Weta Tools or Ziva FX. And the one that might have been useful, that texture generator tool called ArtEngine, is discontinued. And all their other tools are half baked. Like their new version control system that’s based on another acquisition.

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  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And they’re gonna fucking drag Parsec down with them

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Myra station: the higher ups fucked up because they’re so disconnected with their own product, so now they are making their employees pay for their mistakes in order to keep their bosses salaries and bonuses intact.

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  • Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were lead by a former EA CEO. It went as expcected.

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Luckily we have plenty of laws protecting higher ups from losing their investments

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• alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Corporate playbook:

  When the company does well: Reward leadership by giving all the profits to the executives and shareholders.

  When the company fails: Give the CEO a golden parachute and layoff the peasants.

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• TwilightVulpine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is anyone believing they would not have layoffs anyway? They are likely just trying to pin their cost-cutting plans on game devs who protested against their ridiculous scheme. Comes to mind that the money their clients were already paying is the money that would have paid for those employees' wages.

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• bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man. Bloody corporates. You can bet your ass it won’t be any of the higher ups being let go.

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  • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “fired” is a bit of a strong word for stuffing his ass so full of money it spewing out was what ejected him from the building.

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    • argo_yamato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did but unfortunately the idiots that thought hiring him was a good idea are still there

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    • zib@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Excuse you, but Riccitiello retired. Sure, it was at the last minute with absolutely no transition plan ahead of time, but it was totally voluntary and not at all forced by the board!

      (/s if it wasn't obvious)

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how many millions of bonuses did the higher ups accept to get to this position

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• helloharu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds pretty manipulative to blame the fallout of their own shitty decisions on others.

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  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Privatize the gains, socialize the losses, that’s capitalism for ya

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  • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any more manipulative than a ceo making the decision to axe a functioning and profitable licensing structure to implement a new one with more dollar signs?

    If you told me the same exact ceo made the layoff decision, I wouldn’t be surprised.

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  • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Capitalism.

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• sirdorius@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We are committed to creating value for our customers and shareholders.

  Fixed a typo in the report

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  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks to the Dodge brothers, that’s practically a requirement for publicly traded companies.

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    • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ford did a nice end run on them eventually. He had to do twice. He never liked investors.

      At least initially Dodge released a upgraded Ford for their first vehicle before things really got into the make them different for each year to create a reason for customers to buy a new one to replace their current one mode.

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• donuts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It's a shame, but considering that Unity is deep in a hole of unprofitability coupled with high interest rates across the globe, I can't say it's surprising.

  Plan A was to rip off all of their users and Plan B seems to be to downsize.

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• notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel bad for the people that actually make Unity what it is. I hope the C-suite fucking chokes on the money they’ve taken that they don’t deserve. This whole situation is their fault.

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Used unity for my last 3 games and I’m getting really really tired of their shithouse performance over the last 3-4 years. They’ve gone from constantly making new features, tutorials and systems to barely doing anything.

  Engines need constant feature packed updates, not bare bones rubbish. A perfect example of this is DLSS, there is NO native engine support for DLSS, there’s support for dogshit FSR1 (that no one uses because it’s scaling is terrible and full of artifacts) but it’s just so much to ask for native DLSS support. It doesn’t matter that “well DLSS is only got Nvidia so that’s only a subset of cards”, the vast majority have those cards so it makes sense to support them. I’m not even talking about DLSS3 frame generation, I mean DLSS2.X which has been out for years and is super stable and reliable.

  Game engines should be rapidly evolving and supporting these features, they should take 3-4 years to get commonly implements features or to have to rely on third party plugins to make them happen.

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  • SandLight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I hate that my game is far enough along that it would be… infeasible to restart development in a new engine, but still needs enough work that the uncertainty of Unity is going to be with me for quite some time still.

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  • rappo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HDRP will be coming to mobile

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While I hope all the code monkeys land on their feet, fuck Unity with a cactus, sideways.

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  • Schaedelbach@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The corporation, not the general product - an engine that powers tons of great games.

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• LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just starting too??

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just can’t help but think how the Unity Engine is a phenomenal product. Maybe our systems don’t work as well as we think they do if this company is foaming at the mouth because the metric says its bad. I used Unity for five years, its great, it didn’t need to change, but green line needed to go up.

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