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The more I read about this mess, the more I believe this is the work of one or multiple CEOs who have absolutely no clue about the field they are in and started giving orders.
You know what kind of boss I mean. That kind who can’t handle a NO and throws a fit every time they are proven wrong. But you still do as they will, because they are disgusting human beings and you are already in talks with a new workplace.
What's weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he's asking for per install themselves.
It's clear that professional CEOs don't know anything about tech, but this isn't a tech issue.
I bet he justified it saying something cliche like gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.
Buzzword salad. Yum
MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES HERE, JACK;
CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY EGG.
They absolutely do know. They’re well aware of the impact this will have on small devs. That was their goal. They want to price out those free or low cost games that use Unity and never make a profit to avoid paying royalty fees.
This wasn’t incompetence. It’s straight up malice.
They don't want to price out small devs, they want to get them onto their ad platform. They've said games that use their ad platform will have the fee waived.
Of course, he may not realize that this dries up one of the largest sources of the Unity developers the clients he does care about uses.
Agree 100% same with reddit. Malice not incompetence
I've been suspecting this is one of those "do 200% horrible damages but increases revenue (or at least make the company seem more profitable)" then have a "management change" that comes in as the savoir but they only roll back 10% of the changes to show they've fixed things.
Beast Rabban --> Feyd-Rautha
Their CEO is the guy who was leading Electronic Arts when it was voted the worst company of the year, implemented first lootboxes and who was openly suggesting to charge people real money per reload.
crowning shit, should be his ign
The problem is, I don't think the CEO would be in anyway getting the consequences of their actions. Of the company is sinking, they will just "be fired" and get those extra money (like huge amount of money). The company will close and announce bankruptcy. The "person" isn't punished.
Gotta change the system and hold the responsible, accountable