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Report: Roughly half of the id Software team have been laid off (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It sold like 4.5M copies so I'm not sure it was a failure per se

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[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I think it still lost money though it was like hundreds of millions of dollars in costs

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Just once I'd like a game to spend tens of millions on writers.

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