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Soooooooo it wasn't "the gamers" making the credible threats after all, even if I wouldn't put it past the gaming community to make threats of this nature.
What even is "the gaming community" anymore? Basically everyone except boomers play games.
I'm not sure if anyone at Unity ever accused the gamers, we all just jumped to the conclusion because that's exactly the kind of thing the scene would do.
I'm pretty sure back when I made games, it wasn't Unity employees sending me unhinged tantrums because a number was changed from an 11 to a 12.
Why would anyone be surprised?
That Unity employee could have been put up to make those threats to smear the policy's detractors for all we know.
That's an implausible take. Loyal employees wouldn't go for such a ploy and disgruntled employees ... well, conceivably would take such action on their on volition.
True. They also could've just lied.
I wonder if/when someone can FOIA the police records. I really want to know now
A nice company has a great product and is well liked by its customers.
New executive manager comes in and thinks "how can I quickly get a huge bonus"? The answer always is implement new changes that will tuin the company in a year and a half, but that manager will have received his bonuses and is gone, leaving the company in ruins.
I can't say 100% for sure that this is what happened, but whenever something like this happens, it's just somebody deciding they want a quick buck
"an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media"
Wow. That's... probably against their internal social media policy.
As always is the case. It's a pr stunt
Seriously, tf is going on over there at Unity?
People with passion wanted to work on a great project only to see how the vision was corrupted and turned into a monster.
Like, the regular employee isn't excited about shit changes either.
I don't think "regular employee" should be used anywhere close to this story lol. Imagine your passion project being building something for someone else and when that gets upset you resort to death theeats against your employer? Jesus.
Edit: Lol when this story first came out the consensus here was that death threats were not cool, now that it's an employee everyone is sympathetic? Alright, let's spin this story to fit our bias, why not!
Maybe it's different people with different opinions replying
That's ignoring voting though, which is a good way to get the average sentiment of a community regardless of who is doing the commenting. Is it more likely that the community's average opinion of death threats flipped overnight or that the new information changed the average opinion?
I don’t know who needs to hear this:
Unity sucks, but death threats are not okay.
If you really want to stop shit like this, vote in progressive legislators. So we can codify the fact that corporate actions influence more ppl than just the shareholders and their actions should reflect that.
Edit: thanks everyone for correcting me. I meant not okay.
Unity sucks, but death threats are okay.
Would you rather change 'but' to 'and', or change 'are' to 'aren't'?
You're gonna die!
But before that, let's go see this unity, I hear she's handing out good times.
As requested by the CEO for cover.