I don't understand how Unity burns through up to a billion in revenue every single year, yet their engine still feels so half-baked and unpolished. Where's all that money going?
Company wasted so much money, then the org shut down for spending $500 per customer per year in maintenance (this was a health insurance company) whereas the main company would only spend $70 per customer per year. You'd think leadership of the org would get fired for this but they were rewarded with other positions within the company to do the same thing.
Unreal. Why do shareholder's put up with this? I guess the healthcare monopoly is the only reason to.
Edit: some companies have >20k employees. My first years at MS (late 90s) had these "war room" like 2x a week, 50 people, multiple VPs in the room, 2h. But there were other groups doing their war rooms too.
> 2 hours
> weekly
Kill me
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EDIT: also, 200 people for 2 hours is only 100k if average salary is $500k/year
They'll want a new feature, for example new scriptable graphics pipelines which will allow them to modify the core rendering a lot easier. Ok that's fine, but then instead of implementing one they try to implement two, while at the same time completely ignoring the existing pipeline which everyone is currently using. The time to get the new pipelines working properly and onboard everyone is counted in years in this case.
Those features they actually "finished", but there are so many experimental packages that just sit there forever, or work in a half-baked manner.
https://unity.com/features/ui-toolkit
I really love TextMesh Pro and Zoltran's mesmerizing tutorials, I learned a lot about Unity reading his code, and he was totally into what he was doing and hyper productive when he was a highly regarded indie developer, but I got the impression (just guessing, no inside knowledge) that he was wasn't 1/100th as productive working inside Unity as he was on his own, or maybe they put him on something else than he originally went there to do.
It's been my experience that user interface toolkits are often turf war shit shows. I hope he's doing ok there!
https://www.youtube.com/@Zolran/videos
i.e. the classic 9-year-old Unite 14 demo:
Every project managed by a dedicated servant-leader Six Sigma Kanban certified Scrum ninja-coach project has been a bureaucratic shitshow, with constant cargo culting to agile priniciples and forced ceremonies.
> Every project managed by a dedicated servant-leader Six Sigma Kanban certified Scrum ninja-coach project has been a bureaucratic shitshow, with constant cargo culting to agile priniciples and forced ceremonies.
The engineer-led project sounds more agile than the latter Agile insanity.
No True Scotsmen would do programming this way!