Unity CEO Resigns and Soon After, Unity Starts Gaining Reputation Again

We have all been exposed to what happened with Unity recently. For the uninitiated, Unity has developed a scheme that would unnecessarily screw over anyone who uses their game engine to make games.

Although the engine allows for very great games to be made, it has recently started causing a lot of problems due to its rudimentary structure and ever-so-descending demand. Seeing that Unity was on its downfall, people at the company came up with a plan to commission the creators.

The commission amount was very small, about 20 cents, but how it was employed was quite sketchy and raised eyebrows immediately. Unity was asking for this cut every time someone downloaded the said game.

This would ultimately affect re-downloads, too, so the creators would be at a constant loss if someone started doing the download-and-uninstall cycle. Once this was made public, the creators were fumed by the change and announced their disagreement through Twitter posts or blog posts on their websites. 

Realizing they had made a big mistake, Unity tried to back off with their statement and undercut some of its meanings by explaining that it was not damaging at all to small creators. A week after the decision, it was entirely cut to stop all the outcry from both creators and players.

But it was too late; now, everyone lost their trust in Unity. And it seems like the decision was heavy enough to sack its CEO a month later, as John Riccitiello is quitting next month.

It is unclear whether Riccitiello's sudden resignation is related to the current backlash, but we can bet on it, as Unity hasn't faced any backlash on a scale that would last more than a month recently. Sure, most of the creators could withstand Unity’s awful decisions, but as soon as money was involved, it was a no-go. For now, James M. Whitehurst will serve as interim CEO. The next big question is: what is Unity's next big move to ease the tension between creators and the company?

Once the news of John Riccitiello's resignation was out, the entire community was in actual disbelief as Unity finally got rid of one of the most notorious people ever to be put in front of a gaming company. Riccitiello's past also includes serving as CEO of Electronic Arts during its worst years, around 2011-12, which led to the company winning the Worst Company of the Year award.