Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes - eviltoast
Unity has temporarily closed its offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas and canceled a town hall meeting after receiving death threats. The company made the call as a precaution against possible retribution after it announced a contentious change to its business model this week.
  • Robaque@feddit.itEnglish
    145·
    1 year ago

    Unsurprisingly, it’s likely that this “death threats” situation was made up by the ceo: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16j21jg/the_truth_behind_the_unity_death_threats/

    It’s a reddit link, ik… here’s a copy of the post:

    The truth behind the Unity “Death Threats”

    Unity has temporarily closed its offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas and canceled a town hall meeting after receiving death threats, according to Bloomberg.

    Multiple news outlets are reporting on this story, yet Polygon seems to be the only one that actually bothered to investigate the claims.

    Checking with both Police and FBI, they have only acknowledged 1 single threat, from a Unity employee, to their boss over social media. Despite this their CEO decided to use it as an excuse to close edit:all 2 of their offices and cancel planned town hall meetings. Here is the article update from Polygon:

    Update: San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

    https://www.polygon.com/23873727/unity-credible-death-threat-offices-closed-pricing-change

    Polygon also contacted Police in the other cities and also the FBI, this was the only reported death threat against Unity that anyone knew of.

    This is increasingly looking like the CEO is throwing a pity party and he’s trying to trick us all into coming.

      • Medatrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        28·
        1 year ago

        Yeah if I were the CEO I would be avoiding a town hall like the plague.

        He essentially just called a bomb threat on his highschool before a final he was going to fail. Then came home to his family crying about how scary it all was.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Yep, a lot of companies will make shit up to make people feel bad for them, and to try to make themselves seem like the victims in all of this while hiding the real victims when they are the abusers.

      It’s honestly fucking disgusting behaviour, it makes me sick.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yep it doesn’t surprise me, I’ve seen many people claim “death threats” to get out of responsibility for doing or saying something that was not respectable, or that was flat out evil.

      They do this because it works very well, death threats are so serious and so scary that if somebody said they got them you would immediately give that person a pass (unless they’re a Nazi then they deserve it, you don’t give Nazis a pass for anything) no proof required, though it also would be incredibly easy to forge proof of such an event for anyone skeptical and it would be enough for 99% of people, the remaining 1% of dissent would then be written off as crazy people.

      I’m willing to bet that this will continue to happen and people will continue to go along with it because there are enough cases of people making real death threats to innocence cover up the false ones and make them seem more real than they actually are.