Shitty Executive: “Oh shit, our terrible idea turned out to be wildly unpopular and we’re getting massive negative feedback! Quick, play the death threats card to make us look like the victim!”
Perhaps they could pay a small fee to not receive them.
Or purchase the Happy Customer Times Season Pass, where for 12 months they only receive feedback telling them how awesome they’re doing. Only $39.99 per employee!
*fees are liable to change at any time without notice, new prices may be applied retroactively
20 cents for every death threat not sent? Sure! Whos counting? Dont worry, our propiertary system counts every unsent message, you only need to pay up ^(works every previously unsent message, but only if you got more than 200 000 the past year, we got you)
Bit seriously, why do some people always so eager to send death threats? It almost never achieves anything, gets you on the moral low ground and doesn’t even get to the right persons the first place.
I’m sure there’s a PR playbook somewhere with a flowchart that says, did you screw up really badly and you look like the villain? - yes - There’s public outrage? - yes - say there’s death threats
Man, I wish people put this kind of effort into more important shit. Shitty wages, inhospitable environment incoming, and useless CEO fucks causing it all, BUT DAMN YOU UNITY!
Despite it’s illegality. it’s a type of protest. Better that being pissed off in twitter and the still cucking to unity in the end, but worse that just stopping using unity and porting existing games off the engine. Still, not everybody can still just do that, this is why something like this is understandable. Imagine being a indie dev team years in development with mounting costs and backers expecting a product and you expecting return for your work and then unity turns ups the leeching and fucking up your calculations and forcing you either to delay the launch, pay the financial cost of that delay, port to a different engine and learn a new skillset for that engine or bite the bullet and pay. Also Imagine the unity devs who will be out of a job because of this.
If you want to to change something then yes. A empty performance that the target can ignorance is worse than doing nothing, because then you falsely think “you at least did something”. ESPECIALLY so if all other methods are exhausted or unavailable to you and situation is a a great importance to you.
Illegality of methods does not make the cause unjust, since many unjust things in this world are completely legal and will get you imprisoned or killed if you oppose them. The most extreme example of illegality vs injustice was that in 1940s Europe it was highly illegal to protect jews from being hunted down and killed.
So now you are saying that threatening to kill people because their executives made a decision you don’t like (many Unity developers are coming out and speaking out against this) is “just”?
And… that people who have a problem with death threats being thrown at people for changing a product are equal to the Nazis?
I’m not saying I would be justified yo make death threats about this, since as you say this doesn’t really concern me personally and I have not made any. I’m just saying that people who get hurt by this have the full moral right to do this if they go down that path.
Also I’m really not buying this “Even greedy leechlike corporate suits still have the right to feel safe when doing decisions that will fuck over countless of of live and make society all the worse for it” line of argument that you are pushing between the lines. Violence is not just when somebody bleeds, you know and this is just response one one kind of violence with other type of violence. And this is not just a provider charging for a product. Many people get hurt by this and years of their lives might go to waste. And for what? Corporate greed, it’s not like unity is fucking struggling themselves and they need the cashflow. What they needed was bigger margins.
Ooh, think of the Unity’s corporate suits. You monster. they are people too. Think of their sleepless nights over this. They might have to go to therapy…
You really just base you sense of justice on legality. You really would just watch as landlords increase rents for 200% just for greed and watch people go homeless and then feel smugly superior when you condemn and report said homeless for throwing shit in the windows of the landlords. A Tennant might even have the chance to move elsewhere. Unity devs might not have such a easy path out.
You really are a awful person without a heart. Call me a psycopath all you like.
And you can’t see that violence is not just when somebody bleeds. Also you really can’t imagine that anything that isn’t legal is a justified action to a wrongdoing.
just wondering, what is your opinion of Palestine struggle against Israeli encroachment and occupation of their lands? 😜
If you are comparing a third party library changing its monetization model to israel’s systematic persecution and ethnic cleansing of a people then you are either a child or have the moral compass of one.
It is also incredibly disrespectful to the Palestinian people. Just like your previous Godwin’s Law invocation was immensely disrespectful to the victims of The Holocaust (and the general racism and bigotry throughout the world).
If you are comparing a third party library changing its monetization model
If you starting point is “it’s just money lol”, then beside your general screwed sense of justice this is another major problem in you thinking. Many people have made it blatantly clear that this is not just some price increase that devs can just wave away. It can cause cost of millions to devs at worse and that’s bad if you have a tight and fixed budget and you are years in development. It’s also a breach trust that will make nobody want to use unity ever again and that’s bad when people have sometimes invested their lives in it. That’s bad for Unity too yes, but it’s bigger that just one company. I have already told you this and why I sympathise with the devs.
Mm, I’m curious as to what the threats actually were. I’ve seen people claim they got death threats because someone tweeted “kys” at them in response to their homophobic bullshit.
Any time a gaming company does something stupid, leave it to gamers to out-stupid the company and prove that they deserved to get shit on in the first place
Gamers and death/rape threats. Is there a more iconic combo?
But yeah. Most likely this is just stupid kids. But need to take everything seriously because you never know when it is actually going to be a real threat.
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