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Unity shuts two offices because of credible threats

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Re: Unity shuts two offices because of credible threats

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Gamers can be a really audience scary sometimes. Several developers I know have been doxxed because of delayed releases or dumped features.

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/unity-employee-reportedly-for...

Turns out the scary party was a unity employee, not 'Gamers'.

Re: Unity shuts two offices because of credible threats

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can call it whatever we want but it's a shame it's such a frequent occurance in the games industry. Is it due to the news focusing on video games, or is there something disproportionately odd that attracts that folks to games?

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/unity-employee-reportedly-for... So it turns out the threat came from...a unity employee. Not 'Gamers'. Do you understand how ridiculous all this gamers talk was?

Yeah, that makes it worse. Someone whose job it is to work on games (or at least, work with peope who make games) decided to burn their career over threatening their boss. And since it's someone who is an employee they can go postal or have accomplices.

I don't really care about the wide generalizations, I didn't make them and it's not productive to dwell on them. It's the internet, report and ignore. But I really hate how some people were downplaying this and saying it was a conspiracy all because they are mad at a CEO. Can we both hate corporate greed AND death threats, please?

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