[aikah]

Yes indeed, it's time to move from Unity to something else because I don't want to pay for that kind of people's salary:

> Devs not baking monetisation into the creative process are “fucking idiots”, says Unity’s John Riccitiello

https://mobilegamer.biz/devs-not-baking-monetisation-into-th...

If he talks in public like that, imagine how this guy talks to his employees behind closed doors...

[hertzrat]

> I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.

Nobody tries to hide anymore that a lot of game companies just create skinner boxes

[Kiro]

The HN thread about the quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097752

[potemkin_buster]

It's not suprising, he's the same guy who tanked EA's quality

[yomkippur]

Or calling developers "code monkey" like in Vancouver

[BoorishBears]

He didn't say that.

"mobilegamer.biz" is betting on you not reading before getting outraged, and it looks like that paid off.

[jibe]

Full quote for context:

Riccitiello: Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.

[dwallin]

To be fair, the full comment is even more belittling than the sound bite. It’s almost dripping with contempt for those who have a different set of values than him.