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It feels like any game developer or publisher big enough to be dictating engines top down probably has their own engine?
Do you really think that a 10 person indie shop is going to have every single person choose their own favorite engine?
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It feels like any game developer or publisher big enough to be dictating engines top down probably has their own engine?
For a lot of studios, even very large ones, that's not the case anymore, and even those that have their own engines don't use them for everything. Nintendo has several engines, but Pokémon Go is made in Unity, as was Mario Kart Tour and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl. miHoYo has over 5000 employees but they still use Unity for Genshin Impact and some of their other games. Blizzard surely had the…
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He was perfecting the “rest and vest” while I was there.
Clearly worked at a different part of Unity. Joe was very involved on the DOTS side while I was there. Arguably a bit too involved at times. But I'd take that 1000x over what other c execs were doing at other places I worked at.
Basically had no input on the AI side which I found odd given that (at least at the time) JR etc were suggesting that AI was going to be leading the future of U
Obviously we saw what happened so *shrug*
Why can't we just come out and say that the agent / capital model is consumer antagonistic and work on fixing it? This is just a symptom, the cause needs to be addressed by the legislature.
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Oh they didn't walk it back. It's now one of two ways for them to get a percent of your revenue - that did change. (It also was only going to kick in once your revenue hit a certain point.) The CEO John R. didn't chime in here, and that would have meant him being accountable for this decision and its effect on Unity. His mask slipped here.
If you're working on strategy at Unity in good faith right now, I think you announce like they did rather than having the CEO take accountability. Because I think the CEO apology strategy depends on the CEO's ability to convince people he's sincere and contrite. That's a tall order under these circumstances.
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I haven't seen any evidence that anyone smart was involved in this decision. There's been some hints that the actual smart people (devs, customer support folks) were screaming bloody murder that it was a terrible idea, but the execs pushed it through anyway. This is yet another entry in the enormous list of evidence that becoming the head of a company does not require any intelligence. Quite the opposite, apparently.
Don't mean to defend the execs that made this decision too much, but I think saying "they're all just idiots" is probably not what really happened. Basically, execs (especially public company execs) have the responsibility for growing revenue and earnings. Ideally they do that by just making better products, but some times you do need to "thread the needle" by charging more for your products while not pissing off cus…
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This is such a weird post. Why the Biden mention?
Because Biden endorsed Unity so many times in his inaugural address. It was a such refreshing departure and contrast from Trump's obsession with Unreal lies and propoganda. The 41 most Unreal Donald Trump quotes of 2018: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/trump-lines-of-t... JANUARY 20, 2021: A National Day of Unity https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action... President Joe Biden 2021 Inau…
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Because Biden endorsed Unity so many times in his inaugural address. It was a such refreshing departure and contrast from Trump's obsession with Unreal lies and propoganda. The 41 most Unreal Donald Trump quotes of 2018: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/trump-lines-of-t... JANUARY 20, 2021: A National Day of Unity https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action... President Joe Biden 2021 Inau…
i just feel like there needed to be a good transition from the serious beginning about the riticiello to the meme at the end. Like it was too jarring to suddenly do the 180 to the presidential speech.
Did you watch the video of Autodesk attacking Ton Roosendaal with falling ceiling plaster? (I didn't make that part up: It happened just after Ton mentioned Autodesk, so he immediately joked: "That was Autodesk!")
Ton Roosendaal gets hit by ceiling at Blender Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwG-qt-sgk
>During his Blender Foundation/Institute panel, Ton Roosendaal gets almost hit in the head by a piece of plaster falling from the ceiling of the conference center.
I think it might be too little too late. I do wonder if this was always the plan with classic door-in-the-face technique, but I can't imagine they would have anticipated the absolute magnitude of backlash. Their product certainly isn't as special as they clearly think it is, and the fact that they attempted to unilaterally change the contract in as egregious as way as they did is unacceptable and not behaviour I woul…