Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’
www.polygon.com
The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5340114

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Original Discussion[1]

San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

  1. https://lemmy.world/post/5057297 ↩︎

    • Jaysyn
      121•2 years ago

      Even better than fake, it’s self-inflicted.

      The fact that Unity board of directors haven’t fired the CEO shows that they are A-OK with this.

      • McKeeEnglish
        12•2 years ago

        They were working from another office per the article.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      I’ve been working on an indie game project for several years now and invested thousands of dollars into it. Fortunately, I had the foresight to use Godot for it, but if I’d used Unity instead I’d be completely screwed right now. Hell, I’m still using the 3.X branch of Godot because I figured that migrating everything to version 4 would be more trouble than it’s worth. Going to a completely new engine at this stage in development would be completely out of the question.

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          No, it’s a commercial release. I’d been doing everything with placeholder art throughout most of development but I’ve recently commissioned some artists for some professional assets, and I think I’ll have enough to put together some screenshots and a demo video and get a page on Steam, etc. set up within the next few weeks.

          It’s a Metroidvania with influences from cinematic platformers (Another World, Flashback) and immersive sims (System Shock, Deus Ex.)

      • @anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I’m sorry to stifle your expectations, but if you’re working on that project on your own, you’re very unlikely to reach the 200k/year revenue necessary to trigger this new pricing scheme.

    • @TheDarkKnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Could be stock options as well. I’d be shitty if part of my compensation was stock and I saw blatant mismanagement taking place.