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Sounds like Weta FX will be hiring back most of the laid off Unity x Weta staff and will continue to develop the tech IP. I’m glad that Weta Digital folks will get to keep doing what they’re doing; they have a ton of really smart people and cool tech.
@yiningkarlli
Oof... with all the turmoil going on at Unity, I'm not surprised things have gone bad. Great to hear that the staff are being taken care of though.
To be honest I kind of thought this would eventually happen since the day the deal was first announced. This entire deal never really made sense for Unity IMO; every production pipeline I've ever seen is basically impossible to really productize because it's all super purpose-specific tools tailored to super specific studio environments, written by tech staffs that are like, either PhD/research types or hackers and nothing in between.
@yiningkarlli @aligorith yeah, the whole deal, besides “oh wow that cool” made zero sense to me in all other aspects.
@aras @yiningkarlli @aligorith it was one of the most absurd acquisitions I've ever heard of, nothing made sense about it - other than maybe some prestige points towards investors "look we can buy Weta and we actually do it, lol".
Pure insanity, I feel sorry for everyone below the C-level involved (then, throughout, and now), but hope that splitting is for the better.
@BartWronski @aras @yiningkarlli @aligorith From the outside it seemed like a "Epic is working with Disney? Well then!" and then it was settled.
Epic> "Annnd we're helping make Star Wars"
Unity> "Anything you can do, I can do better!"
Epic> "Buddy, we're not making money on this. We're just throwing Fortnite money around to boost our tech."
@BartWronski @aras @yiningkarlli @aligorith It was definitely a strange match. I had a sense it was all about increasing the "addressable market". If Unity runs out of game devs, they need a wider market for 'stock market reasons'. With such a high proportion of game devs using Unity already, the suits see "not enough growth potential". Just speculation though.
@yiningkarlli I really hope that it works out that way - that’s a lot of world class talent caught in a bad situation