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Positive users praise John Carmack's measured and honest take on the Id Software layoffs as intelligent and refreshing, while negative users accuse Microsoft of incompetence and destroying acquired studios.
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MS has essentially killed every game developer it bought for over 2 decades now, at best a few escape and manage to separate. This a repeat of their antics back around the OG xbox, bought up FASA interactive, rare and others, destroyed everything then hold popular IP hostage. Shareholders should demand the nonsense is ended before they vapourize the entire $80b spent on activision and zenimax buyouts. It really just seems as though their corporate culture is fundamentally incompatible with video games. Their gaming plans are schizophrenic, they claim to want to rejuvenate the xbox brand by refocusing on exclusives yet they're culling everything they needed to make exclusives in the first place. The survivors will presumably be made to make exclusives for a platform with one foot in the grave, then when confined to a minority platform the games will be wildly unprofitable prompting management to shut more down.
@ID_AA_Carmack Microsoft leadership are completely inept and incompetent, judging by the way they’ve handled their Xbox brand throughout the years, it would’ve been easy to assume that allowing them to own a legendary studio like Id Software could’ve only ended in a disaster such as this.
@ID_AA_Carmack Love your insights. Your work at Id inspired me to pursue computer science and build software.
@ID_AA_Carmack This is one of the most intelligent responses regarding a situation like this, I expected nothing else
The offer follows recent layoffs at parent company Microsoft's id Software studio
@ID_AA_Carmack It’s definitely refreshing seeing a level headed take. This is spot on
@ID_AA_Carmack @mov_axbx Appreciation and respect for the honesty.
I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs. My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved. Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal. You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games. Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don’t know. The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.
BTW, if the XBOX division is scrounging for loose change under the sofa cushions, I’m still willing to put up a $1M guarantee to allow @TeamBeefVR to commercialize the legacy open source games on VR.
«Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.» https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2075319665564234012
Positive users praise John Carmack's measured and honest take on the Id Software layoffs as intelligent and refreshing, while negative users accuse Microsoft of incompetence and destroying acquired studios.
Based on 29 visible X reactions from 162 accounts; directional sample.
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@ID_AA_Carmack @mov_axbx Appreciation and respect for the honesty.