A long-serving id Software developer has publicly criticised Microsoft after this week's layoffs, saying around half the studio was let go despite years of acclaimed work.
At the very least, who made the call to layoff id tech devs while infinity ward still struggles to wrangle their IW engine abomination?
There’s so many games in the Microsoft collection that could have leveraged a shared optimization group similar to PlayStation’s ICE Team and they just flushed an option.
Edit- upon further thought I guess that niche would be filled by the Xbox Advanced Technology Group… either way I have a lot of respect for id software and find these decisions beyond foolish.
Oh absolutely, even if they switched every game to Unreal 5/6 (please don’t Microsoft) just having a competent team develop engine tooling and support would be invaluable and id tech showed that competency
At the very least, who made the call to layoff id tech devs while infinity ward still struggles to wrangle their IW engine abomination?
There’s so many games in the Microsoft collection that could have leveraged a shared optimization group similar to PlayStation’s ICE Team and they just flushed an option.
Edit- upon further thought I guess that niche would be filled by the Xbox Advanced Technology Group… either way I have a lot of respect for id software and find these decisions beyond foolish.
Oh absolutely, even if they switched every game to Unreal 5/6 (please don’t Microsoft) just having a competent team develop engine tooling and support would be invaluable and id tech showed that competency
That would be the coalition. They’re absolute masters of unreal engine, so much so that they help epic develop it.