[HN Gopher] Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in 'company rese...
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       Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in 'company reset' continuation
        
       Author : nycdatasci
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-01-08 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | minimaxir wrote:
       | The company reset after the failed company reset, anyways.
        
       | MichaelTheGeek wrote:
       | Not good.
        
         | shrimp_emoji wrote:
         | _Great_.
        
       | fwsgonzo wrote:
       | They've fired so many employees that they (the employees) may as
       | well band together to create a new game engine.
        
         | mdev23 wrote:
         | https://godotengine.org
        
         | rplnt wrote:
         | Very much depends of what kind of employees they fired.
        
       | EA-3167 wrote:
       | I'm rarely in favor of a company self-destructing, but Unity
       | absolutely inflicted this on themselves. It's just a shame that
       | the first to pay the price are the furthest from that sort of
       | demented decision-making.
        
       | TillE wrote:
       | The industry needs Unity, for the sake of competition and
       | diversity of options. It needs a good, well-maintained Unity.
       | 
       | Maybe they'll be able to refocus, maybe their new licensing
       | scheme is good enough. If not, I really hope they get acquired
       | quickly by a company that cares about games. Probably Microsoft.
        
         | __loam wrote:
         | I don't think the industry does need unity. Godot is quickly
         | becoming the engine of choice for smaller projects and Unreal
         | exists for larger and more complex ones.
        
       | atoav wrote:
       | Do they also cut 25% of the top-brass salaries? You know, as a
       | result of the _responsibility_ these people always refer to when
       | asked why their wage needs to be so high.
        
       | afhfah834 wrote:
       | Seems like they overextended the company back when the metaverse
       | hype was happening
        
       | boeingUH60 wrote:
       | Reminder that Riccitiello wasted $1.7 billion on Weta Digital,
       | which Unity recently all but abandoned, and sold $400 million+ of
       | shares before getting fired [1].
       | 
       | It's good to be CEO!
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       | 1- https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1193857.htm
        
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