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Report: Roughly half of the id Software team have been laid off (www.gamedeveloper.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well the one potential silver lining to firing an entire team at once like this is that hopefully they can turn around and start their own new gaming studio free from the corporate overlords. In which case we all win.

At least, until the leaders of that studio get greedy and sell out and repeat the shit cycle all over.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There isn’t any money out there, and a production team trying to run their own studio typically doesn’t work out. „Just go indie“ is not a realistic option. More than likely a handful of these people might be picked up (though likely will have to uproot their lives to do it) but the rest will leave the industry. It’s an incredibly destructive thing MS has done, because id folks often did a lot of knowledge sharing at conferences.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    There's plenty of money out there in the economy, we just keep letting private equity buy up everything and funnel it to billionaires while enshittifying the entire world of commerce.

    But aside from that you make a good point, if no one will invest in a new studio then that's a pipe dream. And yeah IIRC the ID folks were regular leaders at conferences like SIGGRAPH so yes this looks bad for the industry 😞

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