John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of the pricing controversy.

The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    40·
    9 months ago

    Nice postering, but CEOs are not ideas guys, this likely wasn’t even his brain child. The people responsible are still likely there and will continue to push the company in the wrong direction.

    • Naatan@lemmy.one
      11·
      9 months ago

      Whether or not it was his idea is irrelevant, he’s the one who approved it.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        I mean, realistically these days nothing gets done without the investment boards decision. Investors control fucking everything, and IMO are directly the root cause of the enshitification of everything.

        • Naatan@lemmy.one
          7·
          9 months ago

          Sure. And whether he was a sacrificial goat here is not for us to know. But let’s not pretend that the CEO had no responsibility.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        If I hadn’t seen this play out so many times before the fall guy theory might seem crazy, but it’s totally plausible if he’s only been there a short time, but I thought he said in his message he’d been there 10 years?