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You're free to believe what you want, but your message does seem to just repeat points made by YouTube videos that also get a lot of things wrong. For your mai

You're free to believe what you want, but your message does seem to just repeat points made by YouTube videos that also get a lot of things wrong. For your main point, the merger with ironsource didn't modify power dynamics in the company that much. Also trying to group an organisation with thousands of employees into a single entity that doesn't care about anything but pushing ads is just ignorant. Maybe you can make the argument for the highest level of the organization that's responsible of generating shareholder value, but I assure you the majority of the company is made of people who actually care about the engine, the community and often are developers themselves.

droopyEyelids 3y ago
Sounds like it was either your first experience with a big company merger, or you’re high ranking enough to only see what you want to see
- uthrowaway384 3y ago
  Weirdly personal attack, but then again I did say they parent message was repeating YouTube videos so my bad and somewhat warranted.
lsaferite 3y ago
The problem with your assertion is that those upper levels drive the company direction and if the lower levels won't comply, they'll be replaced.
- uthrowaway384 3y ago
  On that regard the public rage is something I don't mind. I don't know what would be enough to modify the value proposition to the point that the core product would be the most important thing in generating shareholder value. Then again part of this whole thing is exactly to reduce the dependency of ads in how revenue is generated so if the community completely shuts down the effort things are not any better. But it should never be possible to be in a situation where the costs are as unpredictable as they are in the released model.
monsieurbanana 3y ago
"Maybe"? Nobody is saying every employee of Unity is for the pricing changes, but yet here we are. Almost like what really matters is what the highest level of the organization want.
raincole 3y ago
> the majority of the company is made of people who actually care about the engine, the community and often are developers themselves. Yeah they care so much that they stopped Unity from destroying its reputation and ecosystem! Never mind. If "the majority of the company is made of people who care about the engine" is true, it just means the majority of the company doesn't really matter. Which is, frankly, the norm for companies with more than hundreds of employees.
ffgjgf1 3y ago
> the majority of the company is made of people who actually care about the engine, That used to be the case. Most of them have left since Ricitelo got in charge and were mostly replaced by corporate drones.

droopyEyelids 3y ago

Sounds like it was either your first experience with a big company merger, or you’re high ranking enough to only see what you want to see

uthrowaway384 3y ago
Weirdly personal attack, but then again I did say they parent message was repeating YouTube videos so my bad and somewhat warranted.

lsaferite 3y ago

The problem with your assertion is that those upper levels drive the company direction and if the lower levels won't comply, they'll be replaced.

uthrowaway384 3y ago
On that regard the public rage is something I don't mind. I don't know what would be enough to modify the value proposition to the point that the core product would be the most important thing in generating shareholder value. Then again part of this whole thing is exactly to reduce the dependency of ads in how revenue is generated so if the community completely shuts down the effort things are not any better. But it should never be possible to be in a situation where the costs are as unpredictable as they are in the released model.

monsieurbanana 3y ago

"Maybe"? Nobody is saying every employee of Unity is for the pricing changes, but yet here we are. Almost like what really matters is what the highest level of the organization want.

raincole 3y ago

> the majority of the company is made of people who actually care about the engine, the community and often are developers themselves. Yeah they care so much that they stopped Unity from destroying its reputation and ecosystem! Never mind. If "the majority of the company is made of people who care about the engine" is true, it just means the majority of the company doesn't really matter. Which is, frankly, the norm for companies with more than hundreds of employees.

ffgjgf1 3y ago

> the majority of the company is made of people who actually care about the engine, That used to be the case. Most of them have left since Ricitelo got in charge and were mostly replaced by corporate drones.