▲ 900 ▼ Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes (www.engadget.com) submitted 2 years ago by Namahanna@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world 246 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Wogi@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Bruh it's video games. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Bruh it's people's livelihoods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wogi@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Video game development is some of the worst paid tech sector jobs. Most developers will be able to move on to other work with relatively little interruption. It's not ideal by any stretch but it's not nearly on the same level as price gouging life saving pharmaceuticals permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think devs that work for corporations really care about this change, if their group used Unity for some reason, they will just move on to their next job (and they're the ones who are worst paid). Every indie dev or otherwise small dev company that has used Unity ever in it's last ten years are now open to serious bad actors. A single person running a script can cost a dev hundreds of thousands of dollars on their own, whether a troll, just same guy pissed off for some reason or another, or even a competing dev. Hell, the one idiot living in his mother's basement who sent death threats to Unity could also do it. There is no "relatively little interruption", as not only have people lost a lot of work on something they already paid for, they also have to remove all previous work they've made or published with the engine. It's all susceptible to attack. I agree it's not on the same level as pharma scum, but saying "it's just a video games" is much too far off the other end of the spectrum. At least Shkreli never managed to bankrupt people who had purchased anything (from him) in the past, or made them 'regurgitate' any benefits they had seen. Though I'm sure he'd have loved to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SCB@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago People here are having a fuckin real one man. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Bruh it's people's livelihoods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wogi@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Video game development is some of the worst paid tech sector jobs. Most developers will be able to move on to other work with relatively little interruption. It's not ideal by any stretch but it's not nearly on the same level as price gouging life saving pharmaceuticals permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think devs that work for corporations really care about this change, if their group used Unity for some reason, they will just move on to their next job (and they're the ones who are worst paid). Every indie dev or otherwise small dev company that has used Unity ever in it's last ten years are now open to serious bad actors. A single person running a script can cost a dev hundreds of thousands of dollars on their own, whether a troll, just same guy pissed off for some reason or another, or even a competing dev. Hell, the one idiot living in his mother's basement who sent death threats to Unity could also do it. There is no "relatively little interruption", as not only have people lost a lot of work on something they already paid for, they also have to remove all previous work they've made or published with the engine. It's all susceptible to attack. I agree it's not on the same level as pharma scum, but saying "it's just a video games" is much too far off the other end of the spectrum. At least Shkreli never managed to bankrupt people who had purchased anything (from him) in the past, or made them 'regurgitate' any benefits they had seen. Though I'm sure he'd have loved to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Video game development is some of the worst paid tech sector jobs. Most developers will be able to move on to other work with relatively little interruption. It's not ideal by any stretch but it's not nearly on the same level as price gouging life saving pharmaceuticals permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think devs that work for corporations really care about this change, if their group used Unity for some reason, they will just move on to their next job (and they're the ones who are worst paid). Every indie dev or otherwise small dev company that has used Unity ever in it's last ten years are now open to serious bad actors. A single person running a script can cost a dev hundreds of thousands of dollars on their own, whether a troll, just same guy pissed off for some reason or another, or even a competing dev. Hell, the one idiot living in his mother's basement who sent death threats to Unity could also do it. There is no "relatively little interruption", as not only have people lost a lot of work on something they already paid for, they also have to remove all previous work they've made or published with the engine. It's all susceptible to attack. I agree it's not on the same level as pharma scum, but saying "it's just a video games" is much too far off the other end of the spectrum. At least Shkreli never managed to bankrupt people who had purchased anything (from him) in the past, or made them 'regurgitate' any benefits they had seen. Though I'm sure he'd have loved to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think devs that work for corporations really care about this change, if their group used Unity for some reason, they will just move on to their next job (and they're the ones who are worst paid). Every indie dev or otherwise small dev company that has used Unity ever in it's last ten years are now open to serious bad actors. A single person running a script can cost a dev hundreds of thousands of dollars on their own, whether a troll, just same guy pissed off for some reason or another, or even a competing dev. Hell, the one idiot living in his mother's basement who sent death threats to Unity could also do it. There is no "relatively little interruption", as not only have people lost a lot of work on something they already paid for, they also have to remove all previous work they've made or published with the engine. It's all susceptible to attack. I agree it's not on the same level as pharma scum, but saying "it's just a video games" is much too far off the other end of the spectrum. At least Shkreli never managed to bankrupt people who had purchased anything (from him) in the past, or made them 'regurgitate' any benefits they had seen. Though I'm sure he'd have loved to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago People here are having a fuckin real one man. permalink fedilink source parent