Translation: the higher ups fucked up because they’re so disconnected with their own product, so now they are making their employees pay for their mistakes in order to keep their bosses salaries and bonuses intact.

Corporate playbook:

When the company does well: Reward leadership by giving all the profits to the executives and shareholders.

When the company fails: Give the CEO a golden parachute and layoff the peasants.

Is anyone believing they would not have layoffs anyway? They are likely just trying to pin their cost-cutting plans on game devs who protested against their ridiculous scheme. Comes to mind that the money their clients were already paying is the money that would have paid for those employees' wages.

Man. Bloody corporates. You can bet your ass it won't be any of the higher ups being let go.

how many millions of bonuses did the higher ups accept to get to this point

Sounds pretty manipulative to blame the fallout of their own shitty decisions on others.

We are committed to creating value for our ~~customers and~~ shareholders.

Fixed a typo in the report

It's a shame, but considering that Unity is deep in a hole of unprofitability coupled with high interest rates across the globe, I can't say it's surprising.

Plan A was to rip off all of their users and Plan B seems to be to downsize. I wonder if it'll be enough to right the ship...

I feel bad for the people that actually make Unity what it is. I hope the C-suite fucking chokes on the money they’ve taken that they don’t deserve. This whole situation is their fault.

Used unity for my last 3 games and I'm getting really really tired of their shithouse performance over the last 3-4 years. They've gone from constantly making new features, tutorials and systems to barely doing anything.

Engines need constant feature packed updates, not bare bones rubbish. For example there's no DLSS support for URP, it only works in HDRP. There's also "no plans" for it according to the devs, which boggles the mind considering URP is arguably the better platform for mobile, console and regular console gaming.

Game engines should be rapidly evolving and supporting these features, they should take 3-4 years to get commonly implements features or to have to rely on third party plugins to make them happen.

While I hope all the code monkeys land on their feet, fuck Unity with a cactus, sideways.

These positions were doomed before the licensing fee change. They just want to blame someone besides themselves.

I just can't help but think how the Unity Engine is a phenomenal product. Maybe our systems don't work as well as we think they do if this company is foaming at the mouth because the metric says its bad. I used Unity for five years, its great, it didn't need to change, but green line needed to go up.