The Unity boss was at the head of the maligned plan to make devs pay up based on the number of game downloads.
After nearly nine years of ruining the reputation of what was once one of the most popular open game engines in the world, Unity President and CEO John Riccitiello announced he was stepping down from his role as the most hated man in gaming. In a release, Unity said Riccitiello would “retire” from his position and would leave the company’s board of directors “effective immediately.
San Francisco police said that one Unity employee made a “credible death threat” toward his employer, though that staff member didn’t work at the company’s California headquarters. It took just five days before the company backpedaled and declared it had a more amenable solution for the dev teams. The new pricing model essentially limits developer fees depending on if a game makes less than $1 million in the first year of release.
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