Id Software founder John Carmack mourns layoffs: "Games need to succeed, not just be beloved"
Id Software co-founder John Carmack expressed sadness over recent layoffs affecting over half of the studio's workforce, attributing the cuts to increasing business pressures rather than executive malice. He reflected on the need for games to be commercially successful, not just critically acclaimed, to ensure long-term production, and pondered potential design or marketing changes that could have improved Id's financial standing.
- Entities
- Game: Minecraft
- Company: id Software
- Company: Microsoft
- Game: DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Game: DOOM
- Topic: First-Person Shooter
- Person: John Carmack
- Topic: Layoffs
- Company: Xbox
- Game: Quake
- Game: Wolfenstein
- Game: Doom Eternal
- Topic: Game Development
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