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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Somehow I get the feeling that this may not just be some unhinged internet troll throwing out online drivel from his mom's basement. Unity's pricing changes are posing an existential threat to smaller studios that meet the minimum income threshold and are placing the livelihoods of countless thousands of smaller game studio workers at stake. This is one of those changes that is going to impact whether you can continue to put food on the table.

John Riccitello has pissed off a lot of people with his disgusting levels of corporate greed, to the point where even the fourth circle of Hell may not be enough to punish his avarice once he pops his clogs. This move may even be worse than the crap Martin Shkreli pulled as a big pharma executive.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's bad, but it's not "denying medical treatment to millions of sick people because they can't pay" bad.

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

Martin gave the medication for free/reduced prices to people who couldn't afford it. It was literally a smear campaign.

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

Really? Everyone who couldn't afford it had access through him? This is certainly a revelation, and not something made up from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/martin-shkreli-pharmaceuticals-ceo-interview

his real goal is to invent new drugs for rare diseases. Turing recently announced discounts of Dara­prim for hospitals, and Shkreli says that for people without insurance it will cost only $1 a pill. For everyone else, insurance, which he argues is paid for by corporate America’s profits, will cover the cost.

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

I'm surprised, it does seem that this is true. I read a lot of articles where he announced that people could apply for medication, or medicaid would pay $0.01 per pill. I couldn't find anything about where to apply or one people who have applied and been able to get this medication, but there is already a generic alternative, so this program might be dead in the water.

As for smear campaign, I'm not so sure. Everytime I read quotes from him, it seems he just really likes to play the "bad boy". Maybe he just wants people to think pharmaceutical companies are scumbags, so when he ran one he purposefully made himself look bad. Shkreli definitely didn't seem to care that people got a bad impression of him.

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

You are correct but in the opposite way, it seems it was a single employee at their company instead which the boss took and decided to say we're getting death threats we're going to close for the day, basically so he could go home early and people would feel bad for him and maybe not give him the flak that he deserves for such an awful decision that's going to ruin the lives of smaller legitimate game developers who use unity.