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bad omens for elf/linux support. Wait, unity is 7000 people??????
bad omens for elf/linux support. Wait, unity is 7000 people??????
Anticipating another exodus with unity devs joining the Godot community.
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Probably not the main Copenhagen office as I expect Danish employee protection rights to be off the chart.
Off the charts? Compared to completely at will maybe. You generally have to pay 3 months severance + 1 month per 3 years of employment for a maximum of 6 months severance after 9 years of employment. That's it.
Frequently you need to have consultations with unions or staff representatives, present an actual business plan for the layoffs and why people can't be reconverted.
That hits the breaks on any impulsive layoffs and it adds another buffer of a bunch of months.
Anticipating another exodus with unity devs joining the Godot community.
I would hope people just go back to writing engines from scratch. It's really not that hard and unlocks being able to do unique non cookie cutter things which in the end games are supposed to contain.
Unity stock peaked during the ZIRP COVID phenomena, looks like it’s only been downhill from there.
I know someone who had >$5M worth of Unity stock (employee grants). He sold it all in 2021. Had the IPO happened a year later, his stock would have been worth 80% less.
I’m assuming a lot of these Unity insiders sold. Fortunately genius fund managers like ARK’s Cathie Wood were buying hand over fist.
Roblox is hiring. And they pay Silicon Valley salaries, not game dev salaries.[1] [1] https://jobs.roblox.com/careers
The more I read about it the more sweatshop-ish it sounded.
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I would hope people just go back to writing engines from scratch. It's really not that hard and unlocks being able to do unique non cookie cutter things which in the end games are supposed to contain.
Writing your own engine requires a far stronger knowledge of math, rendering, audio, and networking (just to start with) than the median dev has, probably by a few orders of magnitude.