It’s worse than that:
Another dev allegedly stripped to the bone is id Software, which according to 3D Realms founder Scott Miller has lost “most, if not all” of its coders.
Man. This is heartbreaking. The Idtech engine is dead, the engine that is extremely optimized and much better that that UT engine junk is dead.
it’s fucking unbelievable how these morons can gut dev studios when the product that came out of them is to the scale of Doom 2016, Eternal and Dark Ages. Ridiculous.
I hope they band together and start their own company.
Speaking of which, if you know a way for me to find games made by devs that were once part of larger studios that were gutted, I’m interested.
Apparently these devs are treated the same way as Mick Gordon
This is so infuriating.
I get gutting and selling studios that don’t hold their own but seriously, id has been delivering banger after banger for 20 years now. Good luck trying to rely solely on fallout to stay afloat you asshats
that don’t hold their own
It never was like that. Studios that do badly are never gutted, not as far as I’ve seen from online reports.
I think the reason why studios are gutted after success is that it’s almost guaranteed that the money will keep flowing even after they are fired, BECAUSE of the success.
If you make a game and it sucks the company can’t afford to fire you because they don’t have guaranteed cash flow regardless if you’re there or not.
In fairness - and I’m a massive id fanboy - the company that gave us quality games and trailblazing tech disappeared when they went to Zenimax.
The publishers admittedly treated them well at the start (Mick Gordon… less so), but this soulless bottom-line thinking was always going to hit them eventually.
Shame.
The arrogance with which Gordon was treated soured me on the whole franchise which is a shame because Doom 2016 is one of my all time favorites. No small part due to his soundtrack.
Weren’t they bought pack in the early 2010s? Doom 2016 was great and Doom Eternal has also a great reputation (I own it but haven’t played it). So they made good games even after being bought by ZeniMax.
zenimax
This. Right there with you. Dead company walking.
It feels like enshittification has come for the games industry in a big way lately.
Why do we tolerate this as fans?
Do you have the money to buy out id software and pay all the payroll for its coders?
