Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes
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Unity has temporarily closed its offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas and canceled a town hall meeting after receiving death threats. The company made the call as a precaution against possible retribution after it announced a contentious change to its business model this week.
  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6810·
    1 year ago

    Fuck it, I’m blaming the victim. What did they expect? If you kill a few thousand people’s careers, some of them are gonna get angry

    • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4121·
      1 year ago

      No matter what shitty corporate excuse they give us, death threats are never, ever okay. The people working regular jobs there are never in control of these decisions

    • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      My friend works at unity. She’s a sweet person who takes care of an elderly dog in her free time. She was very opposed to this decision.

      Does she deserve to die?

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        Of course not. I actually never said anyone deserves to die. If you read through the thread a little bit further, you’ll see me say that my impotent anger (and lack of calls for violence) are actually directed at whoever is responsible for this moneygrubbing sin.

        I’m still blaming the company though. It, as a whole, is fucking over thousands of people. It should expect some people to react angrily when they see that their career, or at least the biggest part of their career, is over, and it’s because some semi-sentient suit decided he wanted more money right now, at the cost of the company’s reputation and your friend’s career after the company inevitably closes.

        • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
          511·
          1 year ago

          Wow you moved the goalposts fast. Your comment says “I’m blaming the victim”. My friend is the victim of these death threats. Backpedal as much as you want, but your comment clearly endorses violence against her.

          Of course - if that’s not what you meant and you regret what you said, then I hope our interaction makes you think about the world more complexly in the future. Violence is not the answer. We can never move forward as a society by sinking to the lowest denominator. We have to rise above. We have to be better than the villans who are trying to ruin our world.

          • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            71·
            1 year ago

            If you wanna call correcting an impulsive and misguided statement “moving the goalposts fast,” then sure

            I’m not endorsing violence against anyone. I was blaming Unity as a company for inciting those death threats. Saying “what were they expecting?” isn’t endorsing the threats against them, it’s saying that they should have known better than to yank a bunch of people’s careers out from under them.

            I hope you can understand that the hatred people have for Unity isn’t aimed toward your friend, the same way that the general public’s hatred toward Walmart isn’t aimed at the cashiers who work there.

            Are people threatening your friend as a named individual, or are people threatening the company as a whole?

            • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              1 year ago

              I’m glad you’re willing to say it was impulsive and misguided. I do understand the frustration - I feel it too. I’m on the same side of the issue as you.

              Similarly, I hope you understand that I just can’t stand for people calling for violence.

              From a practical perspective - by making these threats, all these people have done is undermined the position that you and I know is right.

              Before, Unity had to answer for what they did. Now they can just pass off all criticism as coming from nutjobs who are crazy enough to make death threats. This is a great example of why language matters, and if we want our views to succeed, we have a responsibility to be better than the villans who stand in our way.

  • StarServal@kbin.social
    373·
    1 year ago

    Unity plays the reverse victim “death threats” card because it made a universally panned decision.

    • 50gp@kbin.social
      201·
      1 year ago

      seems to be the favoured deflection strategy of gaming companies after the management attempts something controversial and you want to gain some sympathy instead

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    333·
    1 year ago

    They were really on the ball doing this, knowing them I’m sure they had the death threats ready before they even made the announcement. Wouldn’t be the first time a company fabricated its own victimization, and it’s the smart choice if your PR goals aren’t tempered by ethics.

  • shotgun_crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    186·
    1 year ago

    You reap what you sow. Death threats are no joke, but I’d be surprised if you didn’t get any after making such a shitty decision

  • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    While I dislike death threats, the idea that a bunch of rich CEOs can kill indie games devs with one decision is really bad! I support other actions against unity mainly since there is a bunch of employees who don’t have anything to do with this scared for their lives right now.

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    If only there was a way for the company leadership to make everyone happy again…

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    They are definitely deserving of many complaints and threats (to cease being customers). Of course with the sheer number, some will end up being the undeserving kind. I wouldn’t ever wish harm to the employees of Unity.

    Non-physical entities considered persons exclusively for legal reasons on the other hand…