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The_Hideous_Orgalorg, w Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle

I wonder if this will result in the shareholders holding the ex-EA CEO accountable for destroying their revenue stream.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Good luck. If the SEC hasn’t already started building a case against him for insider trading, then nothing is going to happen to him. He’ll get a golden parachute and scurry off to ruin some other company.

conciselyverbose,

"Selling shares before the announcement" was a pretty egregious misrepresentation. He has scheduled pre-registered sales on a regular basis because he gets paid partly in stock.

It was always going to be relatively soon after a sale of stock.

sinokon,

Just want to add you’re right but what pisses me off is that they still can influence decisions based on this. Let’s say his shares are sold at x day, just do some decisions before that and boom your auto sell share price is now either higher or lower. Only because it’s predetermined they still influence it and SEC now can’t do shit.

conciselyverbose,

This has nothing in common with insider trading and doesn't resemble it in any way. The shares he sold weren't a relevant proportion of his ownership. He didn't sell then deliberately tank them. He sold then announced something he thought would improve the value of his big stake in the company. The decision almost definitely cost him a lot of money by substantially lowering the trajectory of his company's ability to maintain market share.

SuddenlyBlowGreen,

He sold then announced something he thought would improve the value of his big stake in the company.

In what universe?

Revan343,

If he didn’t think the announcement would improve the value of the company, why did they do it?

conciselyverbose,

Exactly. It was plopping his dick on the table, then realizing "oh shit, no one actually is impressed by this".

Insider trading would be more "I know we're about to get sued for this egregious fuckup and have no defense, so I'm going to sell before the news leaks". Strategy knowledge can be part of insider trading, but it would tend to be more buying shares because you have advanced knowledge that a highly lucrative contract has been signed before the announcement. It would be harder to have selling because of a strategy decision be insider trading unless you were opposed to it internally, because decisions you make are intended to make the shareholders (you) money.

SuddenlyBlowGreen,

So he would get a huge bonus from the short term gains, and then dip before the company suffered the long term damages.

wccrawford,

As if you can’t schedule your announcements to fall just after the scheduled stock sales… Or just before them, if you want.

JonEFive,

Don’t you bring facts into this! We want to be outraged!

Being serious though, they ought to be investigating whether there were any changes in those sale orders. If they’ve been the same and unchanged for the last two years or some long period of time, I don’t think there’s a case. But if they’re was an adjustment a month or two ago, that would be very problematic.

Aqarius,

You know, that might just make it worse. As in, this wasn’t some 5d plot, he genuinely thought this would work.

CookieOfFortune,

I think he might autosell his stock so that wouldn’t be insider trading, but since of the board members might.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ha, yeah, that defense worked so well for Martha Stewart.

Varyag,
@Varyag@lemm.ee avatar

Why, it was THEIR idea in the first place.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

Yes, it was their genius idea, if it worked. Must be blamed on somebody else if it does not work.

AdmiralShat,

This was a board decision, not the CEO as an individual.

They are all equally resonate and if they fire him it’s to save face and kick him as a scape goat

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Going to need proof of that.

In nearly every company, CEO makes the plan. Board wants a process and results. CEO is the one who spearheads it.

Ryantific_theory,

I think you mean a nice golden parachute to reward them for taking the heat, so they can swap in a new expensive face to implement slightly less unpopular fees.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

The American dream.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

He resigns. gizmodo

Okalaydokalay, w Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

It shouldn’t be when they were talking about making that shit retroactive for games that were already released. Unity proved they cannot be trusted. Besides, developers should move to other engines for the sole reason of sending a message to the other guys in the industry like Epic’s Unreal Engine. Pull shit like this and you’ll lose out on the developers. Make them realize that Unity was a failed experiment and no one wants to be like them.

beard_hunter, w Assassin's Creed Mirage is Now One of the Lowest-Rated Games in the Series

Me : AC Valhalla is worst AC game…

Ubisoft : Just wait…

Mojojojo1993,

Why no love for Valhalla?

I’m playing out of sync. I did Valhalla Odyssey and now I’m playing through origin. I enjoyed a lot of Valhalla. I can see how they tweaked and polished from origins. I think I preferred the scenery in Odyssey and maybe the story and people. Valhalla had best fighting and slo mo. Graphics were outstanding and voice acting was pristine by Valhalla.

coffinwood,

Valhalla is a nice action game but it’s no AC game. Especially the stealth part and name-sake Assassination gameplay take up too little space. And the skill tree they copied from PoE is just ridiculously overloaded - symptomatic for Ubisoft‘s approach to the whole game: it’s so convoluted.

I really enjoyed Valhalla but as an AC entry it disappoints.

Granixo, (edited ) w Assassin's Creed Mirage is Now One of the Lowest-Rated Games in the Series
@Granixo@feddit.cl avatar

Good, Ubisoft lost the way since *Revelations.

*I do think AC3 is awesome, aside from the ending of course.

Sinnz,

AC3 had too much of that boat gameplay. Worst thing about the game imo.

Mojojojo1993,

Absolutely disagree. Literally added “boat game” on every sequel. People clearly enjoyed that. I know I did. Will get a sea shanty going

ech, w Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

For anyone paying attention, it shouldn’t be. Anyone that goes back to business as usual fully deserves the rug pull when this or something worse is implemented again.

fraydabson, w Classic Fallout fans might enjoy Space Wreck, which launches out of early access today

Bro this game looks so cool. Already bought it. Works on Linux !

iwenthometobeafamilyman, w Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t resist the urge. It’s my character.”

pastermil,

🎵 I’m giving you a nightcall to tell you how I feel 🎵

woelkchen, w Counter-Strike 2 has a lower rating than any other Valve game, ever
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

They should just have made it a public beta instead of calling it a finalized release.

Personally, I miss Practice mode with friends and bots the most. I don’t care for the people online.

ryannathans,

Last I checked there is still practice with bots, and community servers

Indicah,

Community servers don’t work yet. They haven’t released the server files.

priapus,

CS2 already has this mode

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

No, it doesn’t. Not with friends. They get disconnected and bot difficulty can’t be changed either. The skill command does nothing.

JJROKCZ, w Assassin's Creed Mirage is Now One of the Lowest-Rated Games in the Series

From what I saw watching a few streams it seemed fine, closer to the original games but still having that slight off feeling of modern Ubisoft games. Seems like a good game on sale for $30

remotelove, w Activision Blizzard do not have plans to put Modern Warfare III or Diablo IV into Game Pass this year but once the deal closes they expect to start working with Xbox and add the games to Games Pass
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

For someone who doesn’t play consoles, what does that mean? A yearly subscription or something?

cm0002,

Game pass is monthly or yearly, there’s a PC only tier as well as the Ultimate tier which includes both PC and consoles as well as xCloud

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

Thanks. That’s gross.

TrustedChimp,

Aside from the whole not owning games things, it’s actually great you get well over 100 games for xbox and well over 100 more games for pc (with ultimate) including xbox game studios games from the day they release for like 20 bucks a month and if you decide you want to own a game that’s on gamepass digitally you get a discount on the purchase price

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

Ok, that sounds better. I really don’t play that many games so as long as I still have the option to straight-up buy the ones I do play, that is cool.

Rynelan,

Yes then it’s not for you. Game pass is more for the active players that play a lot of games. If you at least play and finish a game each month, even each 2 months then it’s simply cheaper to have Game Pass instead of buying the games (if you’re going to play new AAA on release day)

cm0002,

It’s a pretty good value if you play at least 1 AAA title every 3 months or 1 indie game a month. I’ve tried games I never would have bought (Some I didn’t like and I liked game pass even more for it, because now I’m not out 20-60+$ or having to research every game or make sure I play within refund limits) and it’s cratered my desire to sail the Gaming seas.

It’s kinda like the good days of Netflix, but for games, I’d get in and enjoy it while it lasts because we all know where it’ll end up eventually…

theskyisfalling,

It would be good if gamepass didn’t disrespect your HDD by creating directories that cannot be got rid of except by reformatting the entire fucking drive. There is no reason for it to do that -_-

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

Gamepass really abuses a bunch of “window features” to drm their games. On steam: folders and games, modding is easy, moving saves to GOG/Epic/etc is easy. In gamepass, it’s a nightmare.

If you’re lucky, there are 10-20 step tutorials of how to move save games from steam to gamepass and vice versa.

cm0002,

I’ve gotten permissions wrestled away from Windows for that folder, I just haven’t figured out how to get the entire Windows Store/Default Apps put back together again lmfaooo

wildginger,

If you cant afford games, its great.

You pay ~$60 for the year, if memory serves. Then you get to play any game on the service for free.

Any game you really liked, you can buy to add to your library whenever. But you dont feel bad about trying a game you arent sure you would enjoy, and you can also just burn an hour playing a game you know you would hate, just for shits and giggles.

Honestly its the smartest thing xbox has done in a while.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

It’s a subscription service like Netflix or Hulu.

Unfortunately also games rotate because of licensing deals. Which is why Microsoft is buying studios, to reduce licensing deals since they “own” the property.

Kolanaki, w Zelda boss explains why Breath of the Wild's Guardians and Sheikah tech disappeared
!deleted6508 avatar

TL;DR - “Magic.”

jesusrp98,
@jesusrp98@lemmy.world avatar

Laziness

iegod,

Something not turning out how you wanted doesn’t make anyone lazy you sack of potatoes.

DigitalPaperTrail,

the entire game can be a monumental task, but you can zoom into a very specific part and decide to phone that part in

omgitsaheadcrab, w Sony Confirms PS5 Slim Will Still Support Expandable Storage

That is fantastically awkward looking. Look at that little stand 🙈

8ender, w Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It

You know what? Valve gets a pass here. They tried really hard to make Mac gaming a viable thing and it just didn’t work out.

remotelove, w Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

If you make weed legal, the number of people breaking the law will go down.

If you don’t make any games for an OS, you won’t have any players on that OS.

war,
@war@kbin.social avatar

Valve single-handedly resurrected the idea of Linux gaming and spent God knows how many millions of dollars making Linux a viable gaming platform after decades of everyone laughing at it and ignoring it. I think your pathetic fridge-magnet wisdom would be better suited for a context that isn't an article about Valve.

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

I was making a play at the title of this post, TBH.

Do you need a hug? It sounds like it.

Astroturfed, w Classic Fallout fans might enjoy Space Wreck, which launches out of early access today

I replay fallout 2 still occasionally. This could be fun.

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