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MentalEdge, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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That’s fucking funny. Lots of faith in their own decisions, huh?

LEDZeppelin, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

SEC: we don’t see nothing, we don’t hear nothing, we don’t do nothing.

Arcane_Trixster,

It’s been a day since the announcement, and a few hours since people noticed the stock dump. What the fuck do you want them to do? Fully research the case, send out subpoenas, call hearings, listen to testimony and level fines all in less than 24 hours?

Sanctus, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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record scratch I-I-I-Insider trading!

vlad76, (edited )
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We’re bored of this business. Let’s just suck it dry, let it whither away, and take our money elsewhere.

Customers…? Who?

Sanctus,
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Curse spreaders, rich and bored.

geosoco, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more

If folks didn't see, Nvidia released a driver update in the last day or two as well that improved performance on their cards.

BallShapedMan,
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It’s better on my 4090. Though I do have the DLSS patch too.

Hyzerflip, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

Curious to see if he actually buys any of it back, then that’s an issue. Pump stock and sell high, tank it to buy low.

Norgur, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

Riccitiello made EA the money guzzling shithole it is today. Who thought he might change when he was given the reigns of unity?

Sanctus,
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Remember when he wanted to charge players per digital bullet fired in FPS games?

IWantToFuckSpez, (edited )

Nobody at Unity expected him to change. It was the entire point that this shit heel got to helm the company. The three founders are billionaires now, that’s why. Two years ago one of the founders, Joachim Ante, sold $40million in stock. They dgaf anymore they just keep selling.

Jaysyn, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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The irony of a bunch software devs about to sue the shit out of Unity to get EULAs invalidated.

Hazzard, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more

Oh, good! I honestly kinda expected Bethesda to do nothing about the missing PC options, especially DLSS. The platform clearly hasn’t been their priority.

Cosmonaut_Collin, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more
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This is stuff that should be available on release day for all fps games. I can’t believe companies keep getting away with releasing beta version of games as a full release.

redcalcium,

Could’ve been worse. Microsoft actually delayed Starfield for 2 years so Bethesda can supposedly fixed as much bugs they can before release.

wesker,
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But if you don’t preorder, you wont get the special costume and mount.

Fjaeger, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

This isn’t insider trading?

ShadowCat, (edited )
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My friend told me about this earlier and that’s exactly what I thought. They knew this wouldn’t be popular and would drop the value so they sold before the announcement, that’s got to be insider trading

Aux,

Now the share price will drop and he will buy his share back at a discount. Then they will revert the policy and share prices will rise. Boom! Free monies!

Daisyifyoudo,

And when it’s all said and done, we just have to wait, on our knees, for the trickle down Yay! Unfettered Capitalism working just as intended.

WYLD_STALLYNS,
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When you think about it, trickle down economics is essentially getting a golden shower from the rich.

Daisyifyoudo,

Oh, if we’re lucky its just a golden shower…

NewNewAccount,

Trickle on me, daddy.

Bartsbigbugbag,

He’s actually sold over 50,000 shares and not bought any. It’s just unloading.

Aux,

It’s too early to buy back.

Whirlybird,

Read even the text posted in the OP. They’ve been selling all year, likely due to being paid in stock.

TimLovesTech,
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I think the part where they had a trend of selling over the course of a year makes this not insider trading (or harder to prove if they were playing the long game).

mean_bean279,

They probably have automated sell of dates or automated sell of prices.

This is part of a consistent pattern over the last year.

He probably hasn’t bought any stocks due to receiving stock as part of his employment contract.

It could be insider trading, but considering how companies have been doing pricing structures and rapid shifts from free to subscription based and then seeing sales/profit increase I imagine it’s worth it for them to simply keep the stock long term, but an initial sell off was put in place at a certain price. Sometimes there’s smoke and there’s fire, and sometimes it’s just simply the fumes of capitalism creating a system that’s uniquely imbalanced for everyone else, but isn’t really insider trading.

IWantToFuckSpez,

Not if it is an automated scheduled sell and reported to the SEC.

Ajen,

Still insider trading, just not the illegal kind.

EnderofGames,

I feel like a scheduled sell shouldn’t mean insider trading investigation is off the table.

Does it really matter if they decided to sell just before they devalue their company, or they devalued their company right after a sell? They knew about both before hand, and they can have the same intent either way.

Bluescluestoothpaste,

I suppose, but that’s a different crime under a different statute Im guessing. (Tanking the company because gou have a scheduled sell, versus selling because you tanked the company.)

Whirlybird,

They’ve been consistently selling off stock for the last year as noted in the article. Many of these execs get paid in a combination of cash and shares. To get their full wage they sell shares.

BlazeDaley,

According to the Form 4 filed with this sale, the trade was planned at least as of May 19 using a 10b5-1.

The sales reported on this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on May 19, 2023.

www.sec.gov/…/wf-form4_169420518678431.xml

Anticorp, (edited )

Yes.

Whirlybird,

No, as the article says they’ve been doing it all year. Many execs and important employees often get paid a big chunk of their wage in stock. To get cash they need to sell stock.

Seytoux, do games w Square Enix games misfire due to being "single producer's fiefdom", report suggests

My two cents …

As much as I have loved FF and other Square Enix franchises since I was a child, as of late, I feel like they want to continually disrespect their fan base. I should be clear that I am not anti-capitalist, by all means, they work in those games and deserve to be paid (even more so the devs to be compensated fairly), that said, there have been this trend over there in the last years, imo, that it’s ok to release unfinished games and sell you the complete version of this games either on dlcs which … not ok, but still manageable, or making you purchase a whoooole new game, sometimes not even being available on one console or the other, just to enjoy the game as originally intended. I’m looking at DQXI, and FFXV, which I love, both of them and feels like a F you to buy a whole complete 60$ game just for added content (not extra, part of the main story) or features.

So, came FFXVI, I decided I’m not a little kid anymore that can’t wait for something, also have already a monstrous backlog from years since I don’t have the time to play so much anymore and I can wait one or two years till they release of, inevitably, the finished/revised version: FFXVI “Royal” “Plus” “Definitive” or whatever “cute” name they are going to slap on that to justify the re-purchase.

Atlus, pulls this also.

That’s the rant.

GregoryTheGreat, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

CEO runs his business like a business that makes him money. This and more at 10.

Heavybell, do games w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4
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Want that couch? It’ll take your sim 4 real time weeks to earn it with their pay, or you could just spen $15 in real dollars and get it now. Another for the guest room, or because you lost the first in a cooking fire? $15 more, please.

greenskye, do games w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

I’ve basically never seen a free to play title cost less than a paid one (for similar content). Typically free to play has some sort of completely uncapped money-sink as well. Given that Sims 4 already costs $500+ for all content, I can only surmise that Sims 5 will cost thousands for the same amount of content.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, my wife has spent far more on Lost Ark than she ever spent on WoW…

I hate F2P, so I’ll be passing on this, but the model does work.

space, do games w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Game is free but now you pay real money instead of sims money for building the house. No more motherlode and rosebud for you.

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