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Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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Off the top of my head there's failing to prepare for massive changes to the ads they could run on Apple and Google's platforms and then realising that the money they were making was way less than expected, purchasing a company associated with malware, calling game developers "fucking idiots", growing the company enormously over lockdown and then realising they've pissed all their money away. I don't really know what a CEO actually does so a lot of that could be just company decisions, but JR definitely seems like a loose cannon who can't help being wildly unprofessional.
Hilarious. Thanks
Even if that decision wasn't exclusively his, he must've heard of it, and if he didn't, even worse.
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The Unity engine itself is also being badly neglected, with long-standing bugs that crash the developer tools, or so I hear.