UPDATE 23/10/2014John Riccitiello è il nuovo CEO di Unity:
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/22/leading-unity-into-the-future/
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CitazioneREDWOOD CITY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced that John Riccitiello will step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective March 30. The Board has appointed Larry Probst as Executive Chairman to ensure a smooth transition and to lead EA's executive team while the Board conducts a search for a permanent CEO. The Board will consider internal and external candidates with the assistance of a leading executive search firm.
Mr. Probst has played a leadership role at EA since 1991. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board since 1994, he previously served as the Company's CEO from 1991 to 2007. As CEO, Probst successfully grew the Company's annual revenues from $175 million to approximately $3 billion, led EA into new platforms such as mobile, online and other emerging markets and expanded its international presence to more than 75 countries.
"We thank John for his contributions to EA since he was appointed CEO in 2007, especially the passion, dedication and energy he brought to the Company every single day," said Mr. Probst. "John has worked hard to lead the Company through challenging transitions in our industry, and was instrumental in driving our very significant growth in digital revenues. We appreciate John's leadership and the many important strategic initiatives he has driven for the Company. We have mutually agreed that this is the right time for a leadership transition."
On behalf of the Board, Lead Director Richard A. Simonson stated, "As we begin the CEO search, we are fortunate that Larry, who has a proven track record with our employees, partners and customers, has agreed to assume a day-to-day leadership role as Executive Chairman. He has 16 years of experience as CEO of EA and a deep understanding of the Company's strategy, management team, business potential and industry trends."
Mr. Riccitiello stated, "EA is an outstanding company with creative and talented employees, and it has been an honor to serve as the Company's CEO. I am proud of what we have accomplished together, and after six years I feel it is the right time for me pass the baton and let new leadership take the Company into its next phase of innovation and growth. I remain very optimistic about EA's future - there is a world class team driving the Company's transition to the next generation of game consoles."
Citazione di: Lettera di dimissioni di RiccitielloDear Larry,
I hereby offer my resignation as CEO of Electronic Arts effective with the end of our Fiscal Year 13 on March 30, 2013.
This is a tough decision, but it all comes down to accountability. The progress EA has made on transitioning to digital games and services is something I'm extremely proud of. However, it currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued in January, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. EA's shareholders and employees expect better and I am accountable for the miss.
I have been at the helm as EA's CEO for six years and served as COO for nearly seven years starting in 1997. I know this company well, and I care deeply about its future success. I leave knowing EA is a great company, with an enormously talented group of leaders and the strongest slate of games in the industry. I could not be more proud of our company's games, from Battlefield and FIFA, to The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Real Racing 3. We have built many great franchises that will serve the company well in FY14 and beyond. In particular, I am confident that the investments we have made in games for next-generation consoles will put EA in a strong leadership position for many years ahead.
In offering my resignation, my goal is to allow the talented leaders at EA a clean start on FY14. I look forward to working with you in the coming weeks on an effective leadership transition. I'm extremely honored to have led this company and proud to have worked with all the great people at Electronic Arts.
Sincerely,
/s/ John Riccitiello
http://kotaku.com/5991181/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-steps-downhttp://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-18-john-riccitiello-out-at-eahttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/18/ea-ceo-john-riccitiello-is-resigning-heres-his-farewell-letter/?mod=yahoo_hshttp://www.ea.com/news/from-larry-probst-ea-leadership-transitionhttp://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=525765John Riccitiello ha presentato le dimissioni da CEO di EA per via dei risultati finanziari inferiori alle previsioni.
Oltre alla carica di CEO, il 30 marzo Riccitiello lascerà anche il consiglio di amministrazione.
The Curse of SimCity™
Anche altri ci avevano lasciato le penne? :D
Citazione di: Turrican3 il 19 Marzo, 2013, 11:43:10
Anche altri ci avevano lasciato le penne? :D
Milioni di videogiocatori ci hanno lasciato gli Euri XD
Comunque Riccitiello stava in carica ormai da anni. Peraltro per curiosità su Wikipedia eng il suo stipendio viene indicato come 800.000 dollari annui.
Il "buon" John non mi mancherà.
Spero tanto in Peter Moore come suo successore. :inlove:
Intanto sono iniziati i colloqui per assumere personale:
(https://www.gamers4um.it/public/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F25.media.tumblr.com%2F5e83ba1a8b4fd3fa53d587295e8444ae%2Ftumblr_mk14slF3F81rwkpa6o1_500.png&hash=fa160c4fb5ef805e819921a3559f4c8ae1f69daf)
Quanto è vera :lol: :lol2:
Bastardissimamente veritiera. :|
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/22/leading-unity-into-the-future/
John Riccitiello è il nuovo CEO di Unity.
https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1701679721027633280
Non ho capito bene se Unity stia tentando di ammazzare se stessa, gli sviluppatori che lo utilizzano o entrambe le cose ma tant'è: nuova politica retroattiva (a quanto ho inteso) di licenza, tra le tante cosette allucinanti c'è un tot da pagare se Tizio installa, rimuove e poi installa nuovamente un gioco realizzato con questo popolare (non più?) motore. Cioè qua scatta un conteggio di tariffa per installazioni che risulterà pari a 2. :|
EDIT dovrebbero già essere corsi ai ripari con varie modifiche, vedi sotto
La butto lì: Genshin Impact usa unity, questo ha visto che il motore è sostanzialmente morto e cerca di farsi acquisire dai cinesi :hmm:
Faccia come crede, purché si rimedi a questa roba allucinante e non mettano a repentaglio Silksong. :D
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1701619573722845366
https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
Ok pare sia un po' meno peggio di come l'avessi intesa (sussistono delle soglie oltre le quali scatta l'obbligo di pagamento dell'obolo) ma continua a sembrarmi davvero una pessima idea, a cominciare dall'applicazione retroattiva del conteggio. :|
Ad ogni modo la situazione potrebbe essere in evoluzione mentre vi scrivo, stante che già ci sarebbero novità proprio sul conteggio delle installazioni dopo che gli sviluppatori sono insorti:
https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1701767079697740115
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unity-software-incs-president-ceo-050515124.html
E mentre mezzo mondo inveisce contro Unity, si viene a scoprire che qualche giorno fa Riccitiello ha venduto altre 2000 azioni (e non è l'unico dei dirigenti ad averlo fatto negli ultimi mesi), appena prima quindi che venisse pubblicizzata la nuova politica di licenza con il calo delle azioni in borsa. :look:
:sweat:
https://twitter.com/unity/status/1702077049425596900
https://twitter.com/gamedevdotcom/status/1702095059561099309
https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/1702199241538420997
Botta e risposta Unity/sviluppatori continua.
Ricciatello è re mida al contrario :asd:
Tra l'altro anch'io mi dovrò buttare su un altro engine mi sa :sweat:
Lo usavo per lavoro unity.
Ah, un altro collega. :D :gogogo:
CitazioneI know people don't want to hear this: you shouldn't be blaming John Riccitiello.
Yes, John is undoubtedly an asshole, since they don't let you be a CEO unless you are one. But he has also been the CEO of Unity since 2014 and oversaw its progress from "that engine that lets you port your game to anything" to "the platform that every single mobile game is made on and the backbone of the inde developer market." The main reason why so many of you are only hearing about him being the CEO now, is because he HAD (past tense) been doing a relatively good job.
What changed ... In 2020 Unity went public, and a bunch of shit heads bought their way onto Unity's board of directors. Ultimately the CEO works for the Board, so when these new bosses tell him to do something self destructive, he does it.
Here are the names you should be talking about instead of John:
Tomer Bar Zeev
Roelof Botha
Egon Durban.
Remember IronSource, that dog shit monetization company that absolutely everyone in the industry dumped and was circling the drain until Unity bought them for $4.4 billion? Tomer Bar Zeev is the founder of IronSource, and following the merger he became Unity's 3rd president (along with John and Marc) ... yes, this is the asshole who sold a package of malware under the guise of monetization software & ultimately the root cause of this install tax. Given the IronSource's history of malware, I feel that it is safe to say that the Unity runtime will likely start getting flagged by antivirus programs and casually request admin rights during installation.
How Unity got infected with IronSource is that Sequoia Capitol and Silver lake pledged to invest $1 billion into Unity if the deal went through. Frankly, the math doesn't add up for Unity to trade $4.4 billion to buy a plague blanket of a company, only to receive $1 billion in return. Especially when a rival mobile monetization company offered to pay Unity $17 billion if the called off the IronSource deal and merge with them instead. Unless that $1b was for the sake of C-suite bonuses, in which case all of this makes perfect sense. But who the Hell is Roelof Botha & Egon Durban, and who are they important names?
Roelof is a Director of Sequoia, Egon is the founder of Silver Lak, and both of them have ties back to Elon Musk ... which is pretty telling for how fast Unity has caught on fire. If Egon's name is familiar, it is because he was on Twitter's Board and was the one who pushed to have them accept the deal & then got thrown off the board when they realised that he was just spying for Elon during the resulting lawsuit. He also was the one who helped Elon with his fake " Taking Tesla private" scam. Roelof was the CFO of PayPal before it got acquired and has a long history of being involved with mergers that result in a lot of money for some, but absolute shit deals for end users.
Looping back to the top ... I think John is done with Unity, but not in the "yay, us consumers have protested hard enough to get him fired" kind of way the internet wants. I think he was done in 2020 when he went from being the guy actually running the company, to the guy who answers to a room full of investment fuck heads (of the 13 board members, 11 are investment managers), and then gets to take the blame for their shit decisions. I feel like the reason why he sold his stock is because he knew this was a shit idea that was going to tank the company, but these assholes wouldn't listen. So he cashed out his stock and will be announcing his retirement at the start of Q4.
Don't be shocked when Tomer Bar Zeev gets named as his replacement.
P.S. MAYBE THEY CAN MERGE WITH ZENGA NEXT!!!!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/16j23ci/i_know_people_dont_want_to_hear_this_you_shouldnt/
Ovviamente da prendere con le pinze ma se dovesse essere vero... beh potremmo scoprirlo molto presto. :D
Citazione di: Turrican3 il 13 Settembre, 2023, 16:59:04https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unity-software-incs-president-ceo-050515124.html
E mentre mezzo mondo inveisce contro Unity, si viene a scoprire che qualche giorno fa Riccitiello ha venduto altre 2000 azioni (e non è l'unico dei dirigenti ad averlo fatto negli ultimi mesi), appena prima quindi che venisse pubblicizzata la nuova politica di licenza con il calo delle azioni in borsa. :look:
Che schifo.
Ma più che altro, non è illegale? :hmm:
CitazioneTo our community:
I'm Marc Whitten, and I lead Unity Create which includes the Unity engine and editor teams.
I want to start with this: I am sorry.
[...]
https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee
https://twitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1705285934206345241
Unity fa un significativo passo indietro dopo le proteste degli sviluppatori (e non solo quelle...) pressochè unanimi sulla (ex) "nuova" politica delle licenze.
E Riccy fa ciaone.
https://twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1711487340168831163
Ma che casino bestiale hanno messo in piedi. :sweat:
Che poi non ho capito se ci fossero o meno i presupposti per tirare la cinghia in quel modo, cioè se la loro posizione commerciale nell'attuale contesto dei motori di sviluppo consentisse o meno una (per quel che posso giudicare a posteriori) spavalderia simile. :hmm:
Ahahaha che pagliacciata, vabbè almeno se ne è andato :asd:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/unity-software-cut-38-staff-company-reset-2023-11-28/?utm_source=reddit.com
CitazioneTuesday's announcement includes termination of the professional services piece of an agreement Unity struck with movie director Peter Jackson's visual effects company Weta FX in 2021 after Unity purchased the technology and engineering division of Weta FX. As a result, 265 employees whose jobs are related to the agreement will be laid off, the company said.
The company has said its total workforce was around 7,000.
In addition, Unity will shut down offices in 14 locations such as Berlin and Singapore, pending employee consultation in some countries, and significantly reduce its office footprint for the remaining offices, including in San Francisco and Bellevue, Washington.
:sweat:
Matthew Bromberg nuovo CEO Unity: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/unity-appoints-former-ea-and-zynga-executive-as-its-new-ceo/
CitazioneBromberg previously served as group general manager of BioWare, before taking global responsibility for EA's mobile business during a four-year spell with the company that ended in July 2016.
He left to serve as chief operating officer of leading mobile game developer and publisher Zynga, where he worked until 2022.