Totally. The classic MBA move of firing important people who’s role he doesn’t understand, seeing short term gains from lack of salaries, and exits the company just in time for it to tank because it can’t operate without those people. Walks away with a few cool million, on to his next company to suck dry.

Those stock grants aren't going to grant themselves son. Literally Lord Farquad. "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

damn. I need to be an exec. sounds like they fuck

They don't need a future. They want profit right now. Pump and dump.

None for unity, but I have tons for the employees. Company execs made some dumb decision and now they are losing their jobs.

New CEO now though. Old CEO fucked Unity hard. Jim is the old RedHat CEO before IBM bought them. He was super well liked there. So I have some faith in him getting things back on track and having a good company culture. Just takes time and unfortunately wrecking ball some times. I speak as someone who has been laid off from corporate restructuring before. I found bigger better things with more pay.

I've done a little bit of game development and the thing is if you've already started you don't have a lot of choice it takes a huge amount of work to refactor to another engine and to be honest it's basically the same as just starting again.

Sure you can reuse a lot of the art assets but depending on how far through production you are, they may not actually you've been finalized yet anyway so you've basically got nothing you can reuse. People might have decided that since the changes that were announced (the licensing fee only applying to new versions of the engine) it's worth it for this game and then they can move to another engine for later projects.

I suspect most developers will go to Unreal rather than Godot.

So punish developers that chose an engine years ago for something they had no control over? How does that help anything?