Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust

Interview: "It was not our intent to nickel-and-dime it, but it came across that way."

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Narrator: It was in fact their intent to nickel-and-dime it.

Two dimes, as I recall.

 

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CEO must go. The buck stops at the top

Well, yeah. The CEO puts the bucks in his pocket.

 

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So was this a bait and switch planned all along or did someone decide they want an unearned piece of other people's pie? Because when a company uses Microsoft Office to successfully conduct business Microsoft does not all of a sudden say "Our Success Comrade".

Microsoft has long been well-versed in collecting per user fees for use of their products. No surprises involved. I've been retired for five years and am still rocking the $9 license for the Office suite offered to us for home use, though I find I don't use it very often.

 

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But if you use it to write a bestseller, Microsoft isn't going to demand a cut from every copy going into people's hands.

Exactly! No surprises, except me writing a best-seller, as much as I think I have one in me, buried deep inside.

 

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Who could fire them? They're in charge. The average stockholder doesn't have a clue what a magic gathering is or what demons the satanists buying that occult D&D game are trying to summon, they only care if line go up this year.

The board, assuming it isn't captured. Which is an assumption.

The settler of my trust, when I pass, has explicit instructions to bring in multiple bidders on my MtG collection, all proceeds to go to her brother within my trust, which she will then control. She is a bad-ass attorney. I would sell off a bunch of it today. but she would probably negotiate a better deal, and I am persisting comfortably.