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Unity offices are closing due to death threats. Things going smoothly after their pricing change. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/video-game

Unity offices are closing due to death threats. Things going smoothly after their pricing change. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/video-game-company-unity-closes-offices-following-death-threat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/video-gam...

mrtksn 3y ago
What up with the gaming community? I get the the players being carried away or be from a special demographics but aren't the game professionals aware that they are doing business? Underpaid developers, death treats after some pricing changes. Wow.
- musicale 3y ago
  The developers are revolting.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    Rent goes up 200%: [we sleep] Unity changes pricing: [ we riot ]
    - johnnyanmac 3y ago
      let's be real: there's good odds that the people doing this hail from countries where they feel they can be safe from legal avenues of (the US-headquarter) Unity. Also, these are children or the privileged who are complaining about video games on thee internet. They have no issues with rent.
- skeaker 3y ago
  "The gaming community" consists of an insanely large number of people. Some percentage of people on Earth are willing/crazy enough to use death threats to get their way. The gaming community is large enough that that percentage manifests itself in the form of death threats being used. The question isn't so much "what's up with the gaming community" as it is "what's up with this small percentage of humanity."
  - saurik 3y ago
    There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't seen news reports of any offices at Warner Brothers or Disney being closed due to credible threats of violence.
    - skeaker 3y ago
      I suppose you haven't looked hard enough, then: A 5 second google search for "marvel movies death threats" turns up multiple articles about threats against directors for killing off Marvel characters. To your point I'm not sure that they closed their offices over it, but how they react isn't really up to the people making death threats.
- mardifoufs 3y ago
  This is not necessarily the gaming community. If anything, the devs who are currently revolting are usually pretty critical of said community
- vor_ 3y ago
  This death threat came from an employee. Some are suspicious of the timing because it conveniently ended up cancelling a town hall event with the CEO.

mrtksn 3y ago

What up with the gaming community? I get the the players being carried away or be from a special demographics but aren't the game professionals aware that they are doing business? Underpaid developers, death treats after some pricing changes. Wow.

musicale 3y ago
The developers are revolting.
- pixl97 3y ago
  Rent goes up 200%: [we sleep] Unity changes pricing: [ we riot ]
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    let's be real: there's good odds that the people doing this hail from countries where they feel they can be safe from legal avenues of (the US-headquarter) Unity. Also, these are children or the privileged who are complaining about video games on thee internet. They have no issues with rent.
skeaker 3y ago
"The gaming community" consists of an insanely large number of people. Some percentage of people on Earth are willing/crazy enough to use death threats to get their way. The gaming community is large enough that that percentage manifests itself in the form of death threats being used. The question isn't so much "what's up with the gaming community" as it is "what's up with this small percentage of humanity."
- saurik 3y ago
  There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't seen news reports of any offices at Warner Brothers or Disney being closed due to credible threats of violence.
  - skeaker 3y ago
    I suppose you haven't looked hard enough, then: A 5 second google search for "marvel movies death threats" turns up multiple articles about threats against directors for killing off Marvel characters. To your point I'm not sure that they closed their offices over it, but how they react isn't really up to the people making death threats.
mardifoufs 3y ago
This is not necessarily the gaming community. If anything, the devs who are currently revolting are usually pretty critical of said community
vor_ 3y ago
This death threat came from an employee. Some are suspicious of the timing because it conveniently ended up cancelling a town hall event with the CEO.