140. Unity's CEO Resigned

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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An update on the Unity system, and an important question: do you own any baskets? Why?

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0:00.0	This podcast and every other podcast that I make is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.
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0:06.5	If you'd like to support, check the link in the description.
0:08.2	Yeah, hi, Mike.
0:09.0	Welcome.
0:09.6	We did just have a long chat that is not part of the episode.
0:13.4	It happens.
0:14.2	Though we did touch a little bit on layoffs at Epic, which I was reading a statistic that this year, the amount of layoffs, it's like 8,000 jobs lost or something like that across the games industry.
0:28.5	Like just an absurd amount of layoffs.
0:33.2	Again, for companies that are profitable, though, technically I hesitate to say Epic is profitable.
0:41.2	They are year over year increasing in value.
0:47.5	But...
0:48.2	It also depends by department.
0:49.8	Like, Fortnite is profitable.
0:51.3	For sure.
0:51.7	The engine, possibly not as much.
0:54.2	I also suspect they spent a lot of money on that court case.
0:59.8	I do not think the Apple court cases would have been very cheap for them.
1:02.6	But regardless, it sucks, like such a awful series of things to happen in an industry
1:10.8	that so many people are so passionate about
1:12.6	and I don't know, just fucking bummer.
1:14.6	But I did also want to talk about unity today
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