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by peteforde 1006 days ago
It's really telling to me that we've heard not a peep from co-founder and CTO Joachim Ante.

Oh wait, apparently he is no longer CTO as of May 2023.

Well, what was his last official statement?

https://blog.unity.com/community/updated-terms-of-service-an...

"When you make a game with Unity, you own the content and you should have the right to put it wherever you want. Our TOS didn't reflect this principle - something that is not in line with who we are.

We charge a flat fee per-seat -- not a royalty on all of your revenue. Building Unity takes a lot of resources, and we believe that partnerships make better services for developers and augment our business model -- as opposed to charging developers to pay for Unity’s development through revenue share.

When you obtain a version of Unity, and don’t upgrade your project, we think you should be able to stick to that version of the TOS."

Well, that all sounds pretty good to me! Perhaps its time for Joe to pull a Steve Jobs style comeback.

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He was perfecting the “rest and vest” while I was there.
Clearly worked at a different part of Unity. Joe was very involved on the DOTS side while I was there. Arguably a bit too involved at times.

But I'd take that 1000x over what other c execs were doing at other places I worked at.

Fair

Basically had no input on the AI side which I found odd given that (at least at the time) JR etc were suggesting that AI was going to be leading the future of U

Obviously we saw what happened so *shrug*