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Is their trust broken forever or is there any chance for redemption?

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is their trust broken forever or is there any chance for redemption?

Not while the current management is in place and that will not change, so the first one.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you nailed it with that comment.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Unity Technologies went public back in late 2020.

The creators/venture capital funders got their payday and the MBA's are now in charge as the company must keep increasing profit every quarter...forever.

They cannot/will not change course now.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is their trust broken forever or

Yes.

is there any chance for redemption?

No.


Anyone that trusts unity after this will get exactly what they deserve next time greed make unity put thier privates in a vice to squeeze out more profit with unreasonable terms then half backpeddle to less insane but still obviously unpopular changes.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope this reduces Unity to perpetual irrelevance, but I fear it might not.

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 4 points 1 year ago

It won't, but hopefully people looking to get into game development are more hesitant to pick Unity. If people aren't learning Unity in school or on personal time, the work force for it's going to shrink, and it'll eventually fade to nothing.

This doesn't even need to be a boycott. Just a negative suggestion will slowly wile away the numbers, as their engine fails to innovate, gets outpaced by competitors, and lives in the shadow of its former self, entirely thanks to Unity Technologies making the biggest PR disaster I've seen this month.

[–] indigojasper@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yankeDoodleDo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Red Dead Redemption 3

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Fuck them. I hope everyone for whom it is feasible switches to something like Godot.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 1 year ago

Short of an "Act of God", Unity has no chance at redemption lol.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Di$Unity

UnitEA. Monetize everything.