Comments on: id Software: Why We Sold To ZeniMax http://www.cursethehype.com/CTHWEBlog/id-software-why-we-sold-to-zenimax/ Your Source for Tech, Gaming, Movies and Music. Thu, 20 May 2010 06:33:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J. TECH http://www.cursethehype.com/CTHWEBlog/id-software-why-we-sold-to-zenimax/comment-page-1/#comment-624 J. TECH Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:39:28 +0000 http://www.cursethehype.com/CTHWEBlog/?p=1575#comment-624 Well I always knew id software as a company has been weak and lagging behind in the development department for many years now. And to be honest It wouldn't have surprised me if the news was more about them going out of business. With games taking forever to be released one can only draw the conclusion that id software didn't have the developer muscle to back up the marketing spin it was once known for. Seeing them being bought out is not at all surprising to me. I'm a fan of their games but when you have John Carmack going off and playing with rockets or wasting time trying to develop cell phone games instead of staying focused on his company one can not be shocked that id as a company has gotten lazy and wasn't fitting in anywhere. So do you see this sellout as a positive or negative? Depends on how you look at it. More money pumped into the development stream doesn't always equate to better game development but it helps. And the way id has been under producing of late and being left behind by other major developers in the industry, any help id software can get should help, hopefully. However, out of the 3 major companies that started the FPS gaming scene - 3d Realms failed now out of business - id Software sells out now owned becoming the peasants and Epic Games makers of Unreal seems to be the only one that got it right with multiple Titles and licensees in the market and still going strong. Which proves Being one of the first in a business doesn't always guarantee constant success and if you sit back and get lazy for too long you will definately be left behind and be known as a blip in history. So lets hope for the best. Well I always knew id software as a company has been weak and lagging behind in the development department for many years now. And to be honest It wouldn’t have surprised me if the news was more about them going out of business. With games taking forever to be released one can only draw the conclusion that id software didn’t have the developer muscle to back up the marketing spin it was once known for. Seeing them being bought out is not at all surprising to me. I’m a fan of their games but when you have John Carmack going off and playing with rockets or wasting time trying to develop cell phone games instead of staying focused on his company one can not be shocked that id as a company has gotten lazy and wasn’t fitting in anywhere.

So do you see this sellout as a positive or negative? Depends on how you look at it. More money pumped into the development stream doesn’t always equate to better game development but it helps. And the way id has been under producing of late and being left behind by other major developers in the industry, any help id software can get should help, hopefully. However, out of the 3 major companies that started the FPS gaming scene – 3d Realms failed now out of business – id Software sells out now owned becoming the peasants and Epic Games makers of Unreal seems to be the only one that got it right with multiple Titles and licensees in the market and still going strong. Which proves Being one of the first in a business doesn’t always guarantee constant success and if you sit back and get lazy for too long you will definately be left behind and be known as a blip in history. So lets hope for the best.

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