This in particular is probably the worst thing to come out of this whole debacle. id was an ecosystem, not just a dev house. I’m not sure that many will be able to forgive Microsoft after this one. Out of all the studios, this one is the most damning. There just isn’t a clean logic to it other than pure corporate shortsighted greed.
No one was spared. Blizzard has been slashed as well. These big Mega companies were never going to be good stewards. No one should have ever assumed they would be. It was always a mistake to sell to them.
Hopefully something good can come up this. Such as the developers Etc unionizing widely. It’s a lesson that we unlearned that we desperately need to learn again. And hopefully many of these laid off can keep cut and form new groups of their own. Which they can control for their own benefit. And keep it that way. So what if these big Mega corporations have all this ip. It sucks that it will decay and die. But the artists and creatives we’re always the heart and soul of it. And we’ll be capable of making more. Even under a different name.
This in particular is probably the worst thing to come out of this whole debacle. id was an ecosystem, not just a dev house. I’m not sure that many will be able to forgive Microsoft after this one. Out of all the studios, this one is the most damning. There just isn’t a clean logic to it other than pure corporate shortsighted greed.
No one was spared. Blizzard has been slashed as well. These big Mega companies were never going to be good stewards. No one should have ever assumed they would be. It was always a mistake to sell to them.
Hopefully something good can come up this. Such as the developers Etc unionizing widely. It’s a lesson that we unlearned that we desperately need to learn again. And hopefully many of these laid off can keep cut and form new groups of their own. Which they can control for their own benefit. And keep it that way. So what if these big Mega corporations have all this ip. It sucks that it will decay and die. But the artists and creatives we’re always the heart and soul of it. And we’ll be capable of making more. Even under a different name.