Joystiq had this article and provided more information. In the article it stated that current employees working on Doom 4 are not being let go, it is only the ones that worked on Rage. This is the policy that Id’s parent company has for working on games and when they are finished so rest assured that Doom 4 will continue without any staff problems.
Well that’s good to know. I still think Rage got a bad rap. I picked it up in the Steam bundle over Christmas and have found it to be pretty good so far. Not ground breaking, but a lot of fun. Maybe I got on board after all the technical issues were ironed out. *shrug*
Fingers crossed Doom 4 is cause for me to soil myself.
not that I was expecting it to, I just wanted to mention AGAIN, how pissed I am I can’t return their POS game that doesn’t run on AMD/ATI gear and was so broken out of the box it took me hours and hours to even get it beyond the initial cut screen. Wherein it looked like a chessboard missing all the white bits.
Fuck you ID. Never again. Hope the whole damn company is dissolved.
Or get someone other than Plunkett to write an article. It’s really jarring to read a high quality article that the Aus editorial team writes, only to see one liners like this on the same feed.
You couldnt even take the two minutes to atleast write a paragraph? Wtf am I going to this site for when I can go to others and not feel like they are just after my clicks? Screw kotaku.
Hopefully y’all get paid by the word. Cause Luke deserves 4c for that news story. Amazing journalism. Now I’ll go Google so I can get the rest of the story. Pathetic!
Ynefel
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 2:55 PMMy hopes for Doom 4 just took a kick in the nuts. =(
Also, great article Plunkett, you’ve outdone yourself again.
Barry
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:01 PMJoystiq had this article and provided more information. In the article it stated that current employees working on Doom 4 are not being let go, it is only the ones that worked on Rage. This is the policy that Id’s parent company has for working on games and when they are finished so rest assured that Doom 4 will continue without any staff problems.
Ynefel
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:06 PMWell that’s good to know. I still think Rage got a bad rap. I picked it up in the Steam bundle over Christmas and have found it to be pretty good so far. Not ground breaking, but a lot of fun. Maybe I got on board after all the technical issues were ironed out. *shrug*
Fingers crossed Doom 4 is cause for me to soil myself.
Stu
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:29 PMAll I want is Cyberdemons. In fact, ID should put Cyberdemons in all their games. Sales would rocket, I tell ya. :)
AnalystWeresmurf
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:29 PMSTOP IT BARRY! You’re giving more detail in one paragraph than Kotaku US does in one month… jeeeez.
Robbo2332
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:09 PMRage confirmed to me that Carmack should stick to his inane twitter jabber because he hasn’t made a good game since 1999.
Bryce
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:12 PMResting on ones laurels is always the best way to go about things.
Also, digging the hell out of this new Twitter-style of article that Luke is pushing, really gets down and dirty with the facts and background.
SOX
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:20 PMDOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED
Trex
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:28 PMInfomation overload. WARNING WARNING
Robert Collumos
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:39 PMCongratulations on the indepth, informative article!
alex effing
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 3:52 PMRelax guys, ID’s just let go of the iots.
SonOfiO
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:00 PMYou take that back! My father was an iot and his father before him! We’re a proud, respectable people and this racial based layoff will not stand!
We’re iots! United! We’ll never be defeated!
whatever3003
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:00 PMyou mean Rage won’t -ever- get fixed now?
…
not that I was expecting it to, I just wanted to mention AGAIN, how pissed I am I can’t return their POS game that doesn’t run on AMD/ATI gear and was so broken out of the box it took me hours and hours to even get it beyond the initial cut screen. Wherein it looked like a chessboard missing all the white bits.
Fuck you ID. Never again. Hope the whole damn company is dissolved.
/rage
4len
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM[quote]/rage[/quote]
I see what you did there…
Josh Washout
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:22 PMNot to belittle your problems with the game chief, but I had it running on my AMD/ATI hardware without problems on launch day.
Barry
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:19 PMFor a more indepth article on the Id layoofs….go here
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/bethesda-confirms-layoffs-at-id-software-work-on-future-id-tit/
GooberMan
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:38 PMOr get someone other than Plunkett to write an article. It’s really jarring to read a high quality article that the Aus editorial team writes, only to see one liners like this on the same feed.
Lucas
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 5:01 PMThis is why you shouldn’t have sold out to Bethesda/ZeniMax.
TUALMASOK
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:11 PMI’ll wait until RAGE is a bargain bin PC game before I try it – So give it 4 – 8 weeks and I can report back.
STENDEC
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:20 PMChrist, why the hell is Plunkett still employed at Kotaku? Seriously this is a pathetic article even for him!
Azza
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 6:33 PMYou couldnt even take the two minutes to atleast write a paragraph? Wtf am I going to this site for when I can go to others and not feel like they are just after my clicks? Screw kotaku.
Ben
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8:02 PMGood riddance to the company who made RAGE.
[Razor]
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8:56 PMTo be fair guys, not all the US staff are completely incompetent. Just look at that Dark Souls article we had a couple of days ago, that was amazing.
Chazz
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:12 PMThat was written by a freelance writer not KotakuUS staff.
AshR
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:19 AMhttp://rob.nu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/73189-Misc-OhSnap_Bear.jpg
LOL @ Kotaku us
[Razor]
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 5:45 PMYou loveable bastard.
Chazz
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 12:05 AMReferring to me or the bear?
Poida
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:18 PMI’ve laid cables that were more informative that this lame excuse for an article. Nice effort Flunkett. Don’t give up your day job…
mike
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:59 PMI have played rage and can understand the layoffs….what a shite game
bogonz
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 11:54 PMHopefully y’all get paid by the word. Cause Luke deserves 4c for that news story. Amazing journalism. Now I’ll go Google so I can get the rest of the story. Pathetic!
Ty
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 1:05 AM“plunkett” heh
“article” hehehe
ninjaweedman
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 4:59 AMId can die for all i care. they are not the developers they once were. save for john carmacks programming genious.