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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depends on who they fired… they were doing a lot of weird stuff unrelated to game engine development.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll bet the people who decided to do that weird stuff didn't get fired though. Though I guess in this case it is a new CEO?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean the old CEO did effectively get fired for it. The new CEO is fixing the problem, presumably.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The old CEO did exactly what the board asked him to & got his golden parachute as a reward for taking the flack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The old CEO was a pawn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am sure they only fired the useless employees, they went looking for red staplers and people who forget the TPS cover sheet!

/J

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately it takes more than just game engine engineers to run a company. IMO it might not have been the smartest idea to acquire all the companies they did, though, just to have them. I don't even think their acquisitions ever fully merged or did anything useful.