bad omens for elf/linux support.
Wait, unity is 7000 people??????
Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
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Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#62Unity is a broken company that sells a critically broken engine. Sure, it's a great engine for rapid prototyping & releasing indie titles, but not great for getting to the finish line. I know of teams that have had to take out source licenses and edit the engine to fix & work around bugs so they could actually ship their game. Unity also don't build and release with their engine, like Epic does with Unreal & Fortnite…
Things are going very well to Epic. Exclusive games like Gears of War, Redfall and the next Halo are adopting their engine (I'm not sure if it tells more about Microsoft incompetence or Unreal's virtues).
Redfall has been a complete critical failure and the last mainline Gears of War title is from 2019 (and this is a franchise that’s owned by Microsoft - I’m not sure what you mean by “exclusive”). These aren’t particularly good examples.
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#63Perhaps it wasn't wise to use so much money on a malware company [0].
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Things are going very well to Epic. Exclusive games like Gears of War, Redfall and the next Halo are adopting their engine (I'm not sure if it tells more about Microsoft incompetence or Unreal's virtues).
> Gears of War GoW is an Epic IP, so it would be surprising if it didn't use the Unreal engine
Gears of War is a Microsoft IP.
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#65It makes me sad that Unity (almost) became an industry standard for indie and mobile games. It's almost as sad as Adobe and Autodesk's relevance.
What is the industry standard for indie and mobile games?
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#66bad omens for elf/linux support. Wait, unity is 7000 people??????
*after these layoffs
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#67My guess is they are cutting glut, realizing that the free money times are over and not that there's fundamental issues (apart from relying on free money too much of course). I'm a bit nervous about them turning profitable eventually but there's enough technical merit and niche that they should. I remember they grew headcount by a lot but maybe I'm misremembering. Maybe this sounds a bit cynical but 8% actually feels…
> I remember they grew headcount by a lot Yeah, by 2x between 2020 and 2022...
And they still have a ton of job openings (in Canada at least)
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#68Perhaps it wasn't wise to use so much money on a malware company [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32096371
Pedantics, but it's actually "company who made a malware installer"
Re: Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
#69Unity stock peaked during the ZIRP COVID phenomena, looks like it’s only been downhill from there.
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#70Anticipating another exodus with unity devs joining the Godot community.