John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

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The guy looks soulless!!! Good riddance!!!

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Yeah, after burning down something popular, he get off without any repercussions (aside maybe a big bag of cash) and is likely to go find the next successful thing to burn it down, to get another big bag of cash.

Can we purge these people out once they failed everywhere?

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He didn’t fail. He did what the board asked of him which proved to be more unpopular than they all had expected. So they gave him an obscenely generous severance package and sent him on his merry way.

He’s been rewarded and they’re just trying to position it so it looks like the company leadership gives a shit and won’t try the exact same thing at a later date.

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Presumably with a generous severance package and pension.

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27 points

Why do we call it “retiring” when we all know he’ll be CEO of some other company in 2 months?

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I can’t imagine who would hire him. He fucked Unity badly.

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Just a reminder that Unity hired him after EA.

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Yeah, yeah, I assume he got like 4727928 bazillion golden parachute or some bullshit

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