The Degenerate One™

Good for nothing, nothing at all.

[The Degenerate One™ @Negrizzy153]

If you think, even for one second, that I would EVER let myself be belittled and emasculated like this, you're absolutely correct.

This shit right here?

INJECT IT INTRAVENOUSLY.

[Dayo @Davidd126]

@bxbyy_g @Mrtybaba Me and one of them gonna be like this

[FunkLip @funkomi]

Who is sending these kids to Liverpool Street / Farringdon / Bond Street station to stand around in suits with a clipboard and ask for one off donations for ‘the youth’? And its not a registered charity. Where is the money going and why are people paying.

[D.K. @DanKantori]

Never change, Motoko ❤️‍🔥

[Kecho @kechogarcia]

The unceremonious decimation of ID tech is probably the biggest act of incompetence I've seen in the gaming industry.

[Panchblack @Panchblack10]

Id Software es patrimonio cultural y cualquier intento de desmantelamiento debería estar castigado con la pena capital.

[steppy 🍋 @steppy]

The Xbox acquisitions are probably the worst thing to ever happen to the western gaming industry. Such an incredibly destructive company

[Nose @NoseOfDeath]

I think I get it now.

People GENUINELY believe those servers to download your digital purchases will be up forever.

They REALLY believe that.

[Crimson_Godot✝️ @Crimson_Godot]

I’m starting to really feel the gravity of what happened to iD.

People don’t realize that iD is one of the only studios that actually delivers something extraordinary and they proved that like 3 times over with the DLC as well.

I don’t want yet another one of my favorite things to die pls

[David Freeman @F_DaVid_A]

- Crea trilogía bestial
- Da exactamente lo que te piden
- Entrega juegos en ciclo AAA de 4 años (poco habitual en la industria hoy en día)
- DLCs de calidad incluido
- Diseña el mejor ENGINE de la industria (a nive técnico)

Recompensa?

- Sé despedido y desmantelado

[Idle Sloth @IdleSloth84_]

Xbox just laid off Christiane Meister (27-year veteran), a core Bethesda artist who worked on Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4. 😢

https://t.co/NayQjy42pN

[Hurc @hurc_hv]

They could've invested into idTech and turned it into Xbox's version of DECIMA or RE Engine, but instead they do this?

What's the plan here? Just fire everybody and outsource cheap labor to milk the IPs?

[TerakJK @Terak404]

Epic makes Unreal Engine 5 but there hasn't made a single Unreal game in a decade because of a kids game.
idTech team gutted and the next Doom and/or Quake will most likely run on Unreal Engine 5.
If you'd tell this to someone in the 90s they'd think you're high.
Clown industry.

[The Degenerate One™ @Negrizzy153]

@BackupBastian I agree, but then Sony will be on even greater bullshit.

[medster101 @medster101]

id created the greatest modern single player fps trilogy period

Absolutely fucking disastrous how they’ve been treated

[BoTalksGames @BoTalksGames]

id Software put out two mega hits with DOOM 2016 and Eternal. Gets bought by Microsoft. Puts out another well received game with The Dark Ages that underperforms, but still does better than the likes of South of Midnight and Hellblade etc. Those studios get to walk away independent, but id Software gets gutted.

We don’t hate Xbox enough.

[narancia gaming @naranciagaming]

look at the amount of "Lead" "Principal" and "Senior"

this is all legendary talent and they're all getting fired because the degenerate subhuman microsoft c-suite think they can save some extra cash by replacing them all with fucking AI

[The DOOM Dominion @TheDoomDominion]

Here is the full list of impacted employees by title and number at id software

[Christopher Kai @ChristopherKaiX]

@DMC_Ryan Phil Spencer isn’t getting enough blame for all this

[The Degenerate One™ @Negrizzy153]

TL;DR - it's all fucked. Fucked if you fail, fucked if you succeed.

I should just pick up a book or something. Maybe touch grass.

(Absolutely not.)

[The Degenerate One™ @Negrizzy153]

Microsoft can go to hell, man. Probably the studio least deserving of layoffs. What good is a studio reduced to a quarter of its size?

They're basically Embracer Group with how they bought and then destroyed a bunch of studios.

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

Gamesbeat: id Software was pitching and toying with various projects, including a new Perfect Dark, a John Wick style original game codenamed 'Fury', and a co-op DOOM before Xbox cuts hit the studio

One former dev says the studio has been "nuked into the dirt" and "relegated to support studio size"

"Collectively decades of knowledge was wiped out of the studio"

➡️ https://t.co/BHQvklieHB

➡️ https://t.co/STxXgpD4gO

[The Degenerate One™ @Negrizzy153]

I won't claim to know the technical infrastructure, but it is really impossible to keep PS3/Vita games on the Store? Are they not just a bunch of files and licences? Can they not be migrated to wherever PS4/PS5 are being stored?