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 ↩︎

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
    322·
    1 year ago

    They know exactly what they’re doing.

    They’ve been collecting metrics for months and plugging them into spreadsheets to figure out exactly how profitable this will be, just waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger.

    They knew it would be incredibly unpopular. They knew it would likely kill the company one day.

    But the spreadsheet doesn’t care about any of that so neither do they. They sold off stocks then made the announcement.

    When the changes go live, they’ll squeeze everything they can out of successful projects, who will be left in a position of “losing 50% to Unity is better than losing 100% from pulling the game”.

    They’ll stuff their pockets with us much of that money as they can and when the spreadsheet tells them to, they’ll pull the plug and strip the company for parts.

    It was the best thing for them and that was all that mattered.

    • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Not to mention money can be made litteraly betting on the stock price swinging from the bad news. Calls and puts plan far enough in advance and automate/preset triggers via broker agreements and can even avoid getting nailed for the obvious insider trading a lot of the time.

    • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This shit should be illegal. If it isn’t already.

      Destroying a company for your own personal gain is why America is falling under

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        It’s not going to change as long as the only people to vote for are “red neoliberals” or “blue neoliberals”.

    • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      They also made the announcement right after an iPhone announcement. Unfortunately, the iPhone was completely underwhelming, so the news didn’t get buried like they probably expected.