RIP Id Software

[Nidstang]

I am absolutely devastated by this news. DOOM is my all-time favorite game franchise. I love Quake. I love Wolfenstein. 136 employees fired from Id Software out of around 180. All of the key engineers and artists. Ex-employees indicating that Id will now be allocated to a support company, and will convert over from Id Tech (one of the best gaming engines ever designed) to Unreal Engine (ugh).
All this done THE DAY before the DOOM The Dark Ages Revelations DLC came out. The year of the 10th anniversary of DOOM 2016. The 30th anniversary of Quake. One month before Quakecon. I genuinely cannot believe Xbox is this stupid. I'm so angry and depressed about this. We'll likely never get another DOOM or Quake ever again, and if we do, it will be a hollow shell of what Id is capable of.

One of the absolute best studios in the industry, with decades worth of talent, and legendary status IPs destroyed by corporate greed and stupidity.

Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software

The news comes with Xbox preparing to 'reset' its video game division by eliminating 3,200 roles.

www.gamedeveloper.com

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/id-software-dev-claims-its-been-relegated-to-support-studio-size-as-136-layoffs-confirmed/

 

[MorriganW0lf]

It is sad to see them "go" like this, I remember playing Doom 1 as a kid and being scared but intrigued by it, when i was a teen i remember trying to play Doom 3 at 2 am on my shitty laptop back when it was new. Most of my formative gaming memories have Doom in them. This is trully the timeline where everything is bad.

 

[gwardojones]

I almost never play AAA games anymore, but the new DOOM games (and even the ports of the older id games) were a bright spot in an industry full of greed and disregard for consumers and devs. I'm not shocked that this is happening, and I'm frankly expecting most of the other devs under Microsoft to eventually follow suit, but this definitely hurts.

 

[bratish]

doomed...

 

[nyka]

Really feels like we're heading towards another crash of some kind; I mean indies continue to knock out great games; but the AAA and even AA markets might be dinosaurs of a fading age.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Thanks for all the slaughter, ID.

We had fun.