[aikah]

Yes indeed, it's time to move from Unity to something else because I don't want to pay for that kind of people's salary:

> Devs not baking monetisation into the creative process are “fucking idiots”, says Unity’s John Riccitiello

https://mobilegamer.biz/devs-not-baking-monetisation-into-th...

If he talks in public like that, imagine how this guy talks to his employees behind closed doors...

[hertzrat]

> I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.

Nobody tries to hide anymore that a lot of game companies just create skinner boxes

[Kiro]

The HN thread about the quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097752

[potemkin_buster]

It's not suprising, he's the same guy who tanked EA's quality

[yomkippur]

Or calling developers "code monkey" like in Vancouver

[BoorishBears]

He didn't say that.

"mobilegamer.biz" is betting on you not reading before getting outraged, and it looks like that paid off.

[jibe]

Full quote for context:

Riccitiello: Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.

[dmitriid]

Full quote doesn't make it better in the least

[nnq]

At least appreciate his honesty - it's way better for everyone to be so blunt about it.

[amatecha]

Full interview is at https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource...

[dwallin]

To be fair, the full comment is even more belittling than the sound bite. It’s almost dripping with contempt for those who have a different set of values than him.

[BoorishBears]

It's ironic you say that because as someone who arguably fits in the category he's talking about (see: my bleeding heart comments about Unity's for-profit asset store from yesterday) it feels somewhere between belittling and insulting for people to act like grown adults would really miss what his point was.

There seems to be this "rainman-esque" infantilization of people who put craft before profit that I truly deeply hate. He spoke like he was having a frank, open, conversation. That relies on everyone involved being somewhat mature and not jumping to the worst possible interpretation of everything.

But I don't know, maybe people are right to treat "the creatives" with the kiddie gloves based on the reaction I've seen.