Carmack, who was the lead programmer of Id\u2019s classic games, wrote on X<\/a> that he was saddened by the news, but conceded that he was struggling to feel anger without knowing the full details.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software<\/a> layoffs,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy \u2018Microsoft<\/a> will probably be a good steward of the brand\u2019 statement isn\u2019t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cI\u2019m saddened, but I can\u2019t muster anger or outrage over it. I don\u2019t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe the reports that Minecraft<\/a> revenues have been carrying several other studios,\u201d he added, referencing a claim made in a Bloomberg article<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cTo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018You can\u2019t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots\u2019 Carmack said he couldn\u2019t \u201crule out the possibility that executives are idiots\u201d, but added that he felt that \u201cshouldn\u2019t be your default belief\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games,\u201d he wrote. \u201cCould 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?<\/p>\n \u201cCould 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\u2019t know. The game isn\u2019t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Id Software studio head, Tim Willits<\/a> replied<\/a>: \u201cYou said it well, John.\u201d<\/p>\n Four years after Id was sold to Bethesda<\/a> parent ZeniMax, Carmack left Id Software in 2013 to join VR firm Oculus<\/a> as their CTO. In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his artificial general intelligence startup, Keen Technologies.<\/p>\n Asked by an X user if he would consider buying back Id Software or its IP, Carmack responded: \u201cI\u2019m sure they value the IP at substantially more than my personal net worth, even if it was just sitting on a shelf for potential future use. Regardless, I don\u2019t think I am the right person to lead a modern game studio.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Id Software co-founder John Carmack has responded to the news that the Doom and Quake studio has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n