It's wild when companies commit suicide, reminds me of when tumblr banned porn.
Unity is eliminating 265 jobs and terminating Weta FX partnership
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 months ago
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always go back to one of my favorite CollegeHumor vids literally making fun of that. 🤣
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Buddies doing social media!
It stands FOR WHAT?!?
alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
dumdum666@kbin.social 11 months ago
If the percentage of 3.8 is correct - there are almost 7000 people working there
Holy shit
badmemes@feddit.de 11 months ago
Wait isn’t this the company that wanted to cash in big time with some shady payment model a couple months ago?
DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yup. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they would have done these layoffs regardless for what it’s worth. Apples privacy stance for advertising companies (what unity wanted to be) and the lack of easy access to additional investment this past year meant that it’s not been a sustainable business for a while
ShadowRam@kbin.social 11 months ago
While Epic has been pouring money from Fortnite into Unreal Engine and making significant progress in updating the engine.
Unity has been sitting on its ass for years doing absolutely nothing in the way of R&D.
As a result, Unity is now left behind.
Valve has given up on being an Engine developer.
Epic with the Unreal Engine will have a monopoly soon if it doesn't already.
Anyone attempting to make their own modern game engine these days are way behind the ball. All the big players are switching to Unreal.
And it's not only Game Engine, but movie making engine as well.
The only company I could see that would have the $$$ and talent to compete against Epic for a Graphics Engine would be nVidia.
AMD doesn't have the R&D and Scientists specializing in Graphics/Physics/Rendering/Simulation/InformationLoading like nVidia does.
Valve has the $$$ and talent, but they are focused on hardware now, and are even farther behind than Unity.
Having a single Game Engine monopoly will be bad for all of us in the end.
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…which is why Godot now is quickly slipping into the niche that Unity largely used to be for.
And since Godot is FOSS, there is no going back for Unity once Indie game devs have shifted, since - like with Blender being free to use - it destroys the competition by becoming the defacto king when it comes to things like video tutorials - since the audience is less likely to be a niche of people willing to pay thousands for a license to an application they don’t yet have any professional reason to pay for. Being open source in any way also usually then leads to a snowball effect of gaining popularity and then people extending its functionality.
This is also what I think will soon happen to Plex with Jellyfin since the Plex bigwigs have decided they want to be Netflix more than people’s personal media server frontend.
All it will take is one big mistake and the ground will fall beneath their feet just like with Unity.
All fascinating and frustrating to watch as I used to work with Unity a ton since its early days.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Has Valve actually given up engine development? Source 2 only just released recently, although not much is using it, to be fair