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.
Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision
Submitted 1 year ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.destructoid.com/unity-warns-of-likely-layoffs-following-runtime-fee-decision/
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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 year ago
They were lead by a former EA CEO. It went as expcected.
BossDj@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Luckily we have plenty of laws protecting higher ups from losing their investments
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.
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.
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.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.
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.
argo_yamato@lemm.ee 1 year ago
They did but unfortunately the idiots that thought hiring him was a good idea are still there
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)
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how many millions of bonuses did the higher ups accept to get to this position
helloharu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds pretty manipulative to blame the fallout of their own shitty decisions on others.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses, that’s capitalism for ya
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.
Phegan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Capitalism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
rappo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
HDRP will be coming to mobile
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
While I hope all the code monkeys land on their feet, fuck Unity with a cactus, sideways.
Schaedelbach@feddit.de 1 year ago
The corporation, not the general product - an engine that powers tons of great games.
LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]coaxil@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just starting too??
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.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 1 year ago
bfg9k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy fuck that’s a real quote lol
MBAs are a scourge on humanity
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.”
aniki@lemm.ee 1 year ago
DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh wow that's a real quote. Marketing bros are literally cancer.
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.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
And they’re gonna fucking drag Parsec down with them