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Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary by brave leo :

Unity continues to lay off employees with abrupt communications and 5am emails.
The company has laid off 25% of its workforce this fiscal year, costing $205 million.
Many former Unity employees report that they were not notified beforehand about their layoffs and only received a 5am email notification.
Unity has been criticized for its poor communication and treatment of employees during difficult times.

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[–] imsufferableninja 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is unreal engine not an option for indie devs?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, it definitely is, in fact I have noticed a disconcerting number of indie games I REALLY like especially 3d games with physics engines are on the unreal engine.

I have always been a massive fan of at least the creative output of projects on the unreal engine, I don't know much about the politics and details around how it is to actually create games on the unreal engine or anything though. I just don't trust Epic honestly or whoever owns them now or rather I don't trust the incentive structure... but yeah I wish the unreal engine success I am just asking how people see the state of similar engines in this moment.