Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy : gaming

[+] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 130 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My only argument against your opinion, is that he actually has a trackable history of poor performance as a CEO and a trackable record of very bad monetization schemes. He's the reason EA is the way it is.

This isn't the first company he's ruined the reputation of.

Granted, the board that elected him is still there. That's an issue that will persist for a while.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

My only argument against your opinion, is that he actually has a trackable history of poor performance as a CEO and a trackable record of very bad monetization schemes.

...which could be because he has offered this service to many boards in the past.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Him being fired is a necessary step for unity to regain an ounce of trust

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago

Hope his golden parachute doesn't open

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 26 points 2 years ago

Good. Whoever thought he would be a good CEO at Unity should also be fired. Time to clean house and promote people who have a fucking clue.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So which company will he destroy next? He devastated EA before he did all this to Unity if I'm not mistaken.

I hope people will still learn from this and come to Godot and help making it a better game engine ^__^

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I misread your last sentence and thought you wanted him with the godot team.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Haha, o god, no. Bit a guy like him would probably not even for a second think about working for them even of they would give him 100% of the funding they receive now (50k?)

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 years ago

Too late, Unity ain't getting that lost trust back up anytime soon.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

He heavily endorsed the bad decision made by Unity and his comments really didn't help the situation so this is a welcome decision. Of course this will likely not change Unity's direction.

[–] Sivick314@universeodon.com 11 points 2 years ago

@chloyster good, he's been a plague on the industry. When you see your customers as wallets with legs you are bad for the people and bad for the company.

[–] Chinzon@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Good. Fuck him- I hope he retires from the industry

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

We did it Patrick! We saved the town.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He almost destroyed EA. Switched to Unity and almost destroyed Unity. Now what project does he join next?

[–] takeda@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe Comcast, Facebook or Twitter? Do something good for a change.

[–] riplin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I hope he goes to nestle.

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