It's great to see the majority of workers paying for the mistakes of that big pricing fuckup that was approved by a minority of people in power. Just a normal day for capitalism, nothing to see here.
How do you expect a business to run? Every major business decision go to a vote? Or should a company that is bleeding cash not lay off anyone until the company shuts down and everyone is out of a job?
"If we don't do what they say they'll bring the entire economy to a halt, yes this is the best most flawless system imaginable" is definitely an objective and emotionless assessment and not ideological cowardice.
Yes, especially when you plan to fuck over all your existing customer base, as was the case here. A lot of Unity employees knew this was a major fuck up, and would have never went with the plan
Or should a company that is bleeding cash not lay off anyone until the company shuts down and everyone is out of a job?
Y. E. S.
This isnt as absurd as you think, its not the goddamn employees fault the execs suck ass. If there are performance issues from an employee that is different, but in general these moves are wholely driven by failure at the exec level.
Hoping it's not a mistake but I'm early enough in my career I'm still prepping for my first indie game and I'm currently pivoting to godot. I want to make pc and mobile titles, and I was already upset over how unity treated their customers and now they're laying off 25%... I'd rather try something else while I have time to learn
The main issue with Lua isn't the language, but the API, which doesn't want to play nice with my program, and is poorly documented with the assumption that people only want to use the API in the simplest possible way, even at the cost of not using certain functionality.
Does it though? It clearly backfires on the rank and file employees who had no part in the decision. I'm sure the executives responsible for this whole mess will end up with a nice golden parachute if they don't just get a bonus for making the staff "leaner."
I buy everything I can on GoG due to lack of DRM. If something is not on GoG, I buy from Epic simply because they pay a bigger share to developers than Steam. When I buy a game I want that money go to the devs, not middlemen.
GoG also integrates well with Epic, so I can have all my games there.
I support gaben simply because of what he has done for linux gaming. Epic CEO is openly hostile to whole ecosystem and that's why his company wont get a penny from me. And thats the joy of the whole PC gaming industry - we have a choice of who we want to support and how we want to support, and in the end we, as a consumers, will win, because of competition.
Lately Microsoft has been friendly with Linux. They even released a guide in their website on how to install Linux alongside Windows. If anyone is guilty of actively trying to fight against Linux is Epic. For now, at least.
Until Microsoft opensources Windows, I won't trust them. Maybe not even then. The most dangerous thing they could do is become a linux distro, actually. Make a bunch of proprietary linux kernel modules required to run "Winux"-only applications and any distro unwilling to have proprietary kernel blobs will be killed.
Microsoft is known for Embrace Extend Extinguish. Their greatest feat would be killing linux.
They are pushing Linux hugely and one of its largest contributors.
Before the cloud you were spot on but they've realised windows can't compete in that area and actually costs them more when relating to their cloud services.
.Net is now open source and cross platform for exactly this reason.
WSL was created for exactly this reason as well and is awesome.
They won't create their own distro because, let's be honest, Linux isn't a competitor to windows as a desktop OS.
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