Unity has announced that President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors - John Riccitiello, is leaving "effective immediately". This follows on from the ridiculous pricing changes Unity tried recently, with the press release making no mention of it at all.
Riccitiello is no stranger to controversy who said some developers were "some of the biggest fucking idiots" in an interview with Pocket Gamer. Riccitiello was also EA CEO when they first launched loot boxes in FIFA 09, and even went as far as suggesting gamers would pay to reload their weapons in games like Battlefield. No doubt many will be happy to see Riccitiello leave. From the press release:
“It’s been a privilege to lead Unity for nearly a decade and serve our employees, customers, developers and partners, all of whom have been instrumental to the Company’s growth,” Mr. Riccitiello said. “I look forward to supporting Unity through this transition and following the Company’s future success.”
Perhaps under new leadership, Unity can begin to fix up their image.
James M. Whitehurst has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the Board while the search process begins to find a new permanent CEO. Whitehurst was previously CEO at Red Hat and later President at IBM. Statement from the press release:
“I am honored to join Unity as Interim CEO and President at this important time in its evolution,” Mr. Whitehurst said. “With the Company’s experienced leadership and passionate employees, I am confident that Unity is well-positioned to continue enhancing its platform, strengthening its community of customers, developers and partners, and focusing on its growth and profitability goals. I look forward to working closely with the Board and our talented global team to execute on our strategy, and I anticipate a seamless transition.”
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Linux_Rocks Oct 9, 2023
InhaleOblivion Oct 9, 2023
StalePopcorn Oct 9, 2023
Mohandevir Oct 9, 2023
Business as usual...
Getting rid of him alone doesn't solve things.
He certainly wasn't the only one behind all that shitstorm.
Getting rid of him alone doesn't solve things.
Does it need solving though ?
A corporate game engine entity like this can be bad for gamers & Linux in long run as you never know when the next draconian policy is going to come along and create issues. Not just effecting future titles, but potentially any past titles on said engine you might want to revisit in years to come.
GODOT on the other hand is less of a liability and is more future proof and trustworthy.
Maybe we have to let Unity engine wither away, and support new increasingly capable and upcoming opensource technologies.
Last edited by Lofty on 9 October 2023 at 11:51 pm UTC
Mountain Man Oct 9, 2023
And nothing of value was lost.
Yeah, it's not a CEO that does the work... only implements policies to make investors/shareholders money. This is not necessarily aligned with making good products.
ElectricPrism Oct 10, 2023
This isn't a win. The players behind it have the 2nd largest GDP in the world and even these losses are just "chump change" to them.
It was a calculated loss for a cultural win bringing us more in line with their hellscape vision for our future feudalism under fief lords.
Last edited by ElectricPrism on 10 October 2023 at 12:41 am UTC
TheRiddick Oct 10, 2023
. They clearly haven't learned anything from this debacle.
Sociopaths rarely do, as far as their concerned the problem is everyone else!
The Hard Drive is supposedly a satire site, but boy does it sometimes give the most accurate version of things.
redneckdrow Oct 10, 2023
And nothing of value was lost.
Yeah, it's not a CEO that does the work... only implements policies to make investors/shareholders money. This is not necessarily aligned with making good products.
I mean, Ayn Rand was less self-absorbed than your average CEO these days. Sigh, the older I get, the more I understand that unscrupulous tactics are the main pitfall of Capitalist/Free-Market economy. Yet, though it may be scummy, I'd take a scummy free-market over any other form of market.
Extremes in any form of market are terrible, no matter who that market is controlled by.
I had to write a paper on Free vs Closed vs Single vs "Post-Free" markets as a teenager, and my A.P. Government and Politics teacher gave me an extension after I showed her the first six (Unspaced!
) pages. It was double that before I was done. I have never had that much to say on a topic since. I went way beyond the assignment, because I went "down the rabbit hole" as it were; I've been burned out on writing for nearly a decade-and-a-half since.Spoiler, click me
Capitalist, Communist, Republican, Monarchist, Oligarchic, Theocratic, Fascist, and Anarchist economies all have things that make economics equally nightmarish. Not to mention that any of those governments can any/multiples of those economies, irrespective of their politics.
Doesn't mean I have to tolerate scummy CEOs! My grandfather was a member of Local 89 his whole life! He even paid his dues every year after he retired! I'll be a union man 'til the day I die and stand judged. Power to the people!
Last edited by redneckdrow on 10 October 2023 at 1:24 am UTC
companies never learn somehow.
Kimyrielle Oct 10, 2023
Ahh, the joy of seeing good news, even in this time and age.
Provisionally good news for the indie gaming space.
However, still need to keep an eye on where he's going next. Not to mention that unity software itself still needs fundamental changes, not the least of which are that they still haven't fully abandoned the stupid pay-per-installs and them not having sworn off their malware producing acquisition.
Last edited by emphy on 10 October 2023 at 4:53 am UTC
From soulless corporate leaving blabla to soulless corporate replacement blabla and generic corporate statement as glue between those events.
Nobody would notice if any of those things were or were not written by a human being, as everything is just meaningless platitudes anyway.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 10 October 2023 at 7:30 am UTC
You could basically let AI write the entire play at this point.Technically, we don't know for sure that isn't how it was done.
From soulless corporate leaving blabla to soulless corporate replacement blabla and generic corporate statement as glue between those event.
Nobody would notice if any of those things were or were not written by a human being, as everything is just meaningless platitudes anyway.
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