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There's a really simple fix: Fire the execs.

It's difficult to take this company seriously when they are run by out of touch MBA's who routinely make objectively poor business decisions and then reward themselves handsomely. I think people are increasingly tired of business leaders paying themselves millions when things go well, but facing no repercussions when they don't.

"STAT | $494 million - The cumulative stock-based compensation Unity reported paying out over its past three quarters.

STAT | $152 million – The cumulative "profit" Unity reported over those same three quarters."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unitys-self-combustion-engine-...

NOBODY believes they won't try something like this again, because the people responsible are still there. Get rid of the people that broke the trust and I guarantee you'll see the community praise the decision.

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I wrote a similar comment yesterday but worth noting again. This isn't the usual group of MBAs looking for a quick buck. These are the people who have come in from ironSource. A company who has made billions by attaching malware in disguise to personal computers[1]. Executives who green lit projects like mentioned in this post really don't care about their users, its all about maximizing profits while stepping on everyone else

[1] https://www.benedelman.org/news-021815/

> This isn't the usual group of MBAs looking for a quick buck.

> Executives who green lit projects like mentioned in this post really don't care about their users, its all about maximizing profits while stepping on everyone else

Uh...that sounds exactly like a group of MBAs looking for a quick buck.

I think the implication was that this is a more insidious "milk them for all they are worth, damn the consequences" group

I think it's the difference between a shortsighted strategy to make a quick buck while running a brand into the ground, and making Unity a tool in a long term strategy to dominate the ad market.

> This isn't the usual group of MBAs looking for a quick buck. These are the people who have come in from ironSource

I'm sure that Riccitello and Unity's execs who didn't come from IronSource are more than capable of coming up with something like this.

> Fire the execs...I think people are increasingly tired of business leaders paying themselves millions when things go well, but facing no repercussions when they don't.

Does firing execs even count as repercussions when they've got golden parachutes to make sure they can fail with no consequences

Being fired is a professional repercussion, if not necessarily a wealth-related one.

Perhaps, but it's so minor as to be unimportant.

OI! Can we get this person cookie?

I remember when it dawned on my poor team lead that they had gone from being a team lead to being alone and in charge of a massive portion of Unity's systems. Just like me, they're an immigrant. However, they also have a family to consider, so what options are available to them?

Being honest mate, it's not much better out there, the games industry is wall to wall owned and operated by mostly borderline-sociopathic MBAs who are as useful as a chocolate teapot and nowhere near as delicious when you bite into them.

It's sad because I've been using Unity since it was only available on MacOS and it used Boo, but hey, c'est l'capitalisme, nes't pas? And already two prospective jobs that were using Unity ghosted me so hard that I know who I gotta call.

So I shrug my shoulders, and keep studying for my third post-graduate[1] that I can barely afford to get more skills so another useless MBA fuck hires me and pays me a pittance.

Oh! And I switched to Godot too, but that was out of spite mostly.

[1] Insert joke about over-educated millennial

> the games industry is wall to wall owned and operated by mostly borderline-sociopathic MBAs

This is why I left the games industry entirely. It's an especially abusive and horrific part of the software industry. Basically, it's become Hollywood.

Another way to interpret these stats are that these MBAs are staggeringly good at what they do (extracting cash for themselves).

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