Technology @lemmy.world ram @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee

www.polygon.com Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’

The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5340114

ghostarchive
Original Discussion^[https://lemmy.world/post/5057297]

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.

151

Technology @beehaw.org ram @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee

www.polygon.com /23873727/unity-credible-death-threat-offices-closed-pricing-change

Technology @lemmy.ml ram @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee

www.polygon.com /23873727/unity-credible-death-threat-offices-closed-pricing-change

151 comments

Permanently Deleted
Three years ago after trying Unity for a month I chose to learn Godot instead. I see now how right that decision was. Well done past self. Have a future cookie.
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.
"an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media"

Wow. That's... probably against their internal social media policy.
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
They should not be getting death threat from employees. They should be getting legal threats from the SEC, and prosecuted for insider trading.
Honestly at this point I feel worse for the guy who made the threat than anyone else. Can you imagine what is like working with those sort of bosses with such exploitative tendencies and an utter disregard for an entire industry? They get to ruin countless lives but if anyone gets mad that's the unacceptable one who is punished.
I can just see their PR team last night planning to spin Unity as a victim after the death threat, in an effort to stop the bleeding, only to find out it was one of their own employees.
Seriously, tf is going on over there at Unity?
Now I'm just curious, did he do it to make the company seem like the victim or did he do it because he disagrees with what the executives are doing?
As always is the case. It's a pr stunt
Didn't we call this yesterday? I am certain I saw multiple posters on here predicting pretty much exactly this.
Based
https://youtu.be/KTa6fWgl7us?si=gotlanLsDBHSrT0c Hank: Peggy, it’s for you. It’s Dale. Peggy: Hello Dale Dale: YOU DONT KNOW WHO I AM BUT I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE
This has been a hell of a week for Unity.
As requested by the CEO for cover.
That's gonna be spicy! 🌶️
What is a community? Recommended reading: Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson.
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.

You've viewed 151 comments.