6 ms·

Meta should have bought Unity. Zuck is sleeping at the wheel. They are gonna try to win at the metaverse without a dev platform. Good luck with that.

colinmhayes 4y ago
Seriously doubt regulators in the eu will approve any Facebook purchase at this point. Maybe in 2018 this could’ve happened, since then I doubt it.
- jjcon 4y ago
  And yet Amazon which is 300% bigger can buy iRobot with no issues. I’m so confused by the weird random things the EU and US block wrt to mergers and yet they don’t block massive obvious ones it seems.
  - maccard 4y ago
    It's not about size it's about influence
    - jjcon 4y ago
      Influence? Amazon and Bezos control a huge portion of retail, the internet (aws), the entertainment industry (prime, MGM), gaming (twitch), Washington post… I could go on… they are hugely more influential than anything meta is doing.
    - skinnymuch 4y ago
      AAG and Microsoft are incredibly influential and powerful.
BatFastard 4y ago
I haven't coded anything in Unity in a few years, but I did, and others I know well did. They ran into the problem that Unity wants its resources to all be defined at compile time. A metaverse is totally data driven (at least should be), so Unity and a metaverse are not compatible.
- gfxgirl 4y ago
  VRChat is written in Unity. So is/was Tilt Brush. Even. Virt-a-mate. All loading user generated content just fine.
- fsloth 4y ago
  This probably would merit context as my employer has implemented several model viewers in Unity which by definition imports resources at runtime.
phendrenad2 4y ago
They probably saw what happened when Amazon acquired Crytek and decided against it.
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
MikeTheRocker 4y ago
They apparently tried in 2015 [1]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/facebook-mulled-multi-billion-dollar-acquisition-of-unity-book-claims/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/facebook-mulled-multi-bill...
- johnnyanmac 4y ago
  interesting, that would have been very shortly after John became CEO. Wonder how that would have turned out if John was given another year or 2 to sink his fingers into Unity?
cma 4y ago
There would have to be some serious anti-trust concerns given their mobile marketshare.
ehnto 4y ago
It is surprising they didn't, and while I am glad they didn't for Unity's sake, it feels like Unity is about to get shagged anyway. There are sharks circling their value propositions to developers, and they're spending their energy on acquisitions that demonstrate their focus is shifting away from those same developers. Who wants to commit a multi-year, company wide project to an engine with lagging technical offerings AND a faltering mission statement?
- grumple 4y ago
  They are forgetting that developers don't like ad companies or being controlled. Devs will move on, leaving unity behind.
seibelj 4y ago
The US government won't let FB acquire any company that generates a headline when an acquisition is announced. We are in a period of government-incentivized small-ness.

colinmhayes 4y ago

Seriously doubt regulators in the eu will approve any Facebook purchase at this point. Maybe in 2018 this could’ve happened, since then I doubt it.

jjcon 4y ago
And yet Amazon which is 300% bigger can buy iRobot with no issues. I’m so confused by the weird random things the EU and US block wrt to mergers and yet they don’t block massive obvious ones it seems.
- maccard 4y ago
  It's not about size it's about influence
  - jjcon 4y ago
    Influence? Amazon and Bezos control a huge portion of retail, the internet (aws), the entertainment industry (prime, MGM), gaming (twitch), Washington post… I could go on… they are hugely more influential than anything meta is doing.
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    AAG and Microsoft are incredibly influential and powerful.

BatFastard 4y ago

I haven't coded anything in Unity in a few years, but I did, and others I know well did. They ran into the problem that Unity wants its resources to all be defined at compile time. A metaverse is totally data driven (at least should be), so Unity and a metaverse are not compatible.

gfxgirl 4y ago
VRChat is written in Unity. So is/was Tilt Brush. Even. Virt-a-mate. All loading user generated content just fine.
fsloth 4y ago
This probably would merit context as my employer has implemented several model viewers in Unity which by definition imports resources at runtime.

phendrenad2 4y ago

They probably saw what happened when Amazon acquired Crytek and decided against it.

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

MikeTheRocker 4y ago

They apparently tried in 2015 [1]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/facebook-mulled-multi-billion-dollar-acquisition-of-unity-book-claims/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/facebook-mulled-multi-bill...

johnnyanmac 4y ago
interesting, that would have been very shortly after John became CEO. Wonder how that would have turned out if John was given another year or 2 to sink his fingers into Unity?

cma 4y ago

There would have to be some serious anti-trust concerns given their mobile marketshare.

ehnto 4y ago

It is surprising they didn't, and while I am glad they didn't for Unity's sake, it feels like Unity is about to get shagged anyway. There are sharks circling their value propositions to developers, and they're spending their energy on acquisitions that demonstrate their focus is shifting away from those same developers. Who wants to commit a multi-year, company wide project to an engine with lagging technical offerings AND a faltering mission statement?

grumple 4y ago
They are forgetting that developers don't like ad companies or being controlled. Devs will move on, leaving unity behind.

seibelj 4y ago

The US government won't let FB acquire any company that generates a headline when an acquisition is announced. We are in a period of government-incentivized small-ness.