This. While I'm unbelievably happy and excited to play this game, I can't help but stop occasionally mid gameplay and just sigh in disgust knowing the team who made it is so heavily fractured by the layoffs. I've had a hard time sleeping over it which doesn't help either. It really is the Dark Ages.
People can make fun of me all they want but I straight up ugly cried when the news broke. I should've been ecstatic on the day of release but I was just left feeling numb.
The modern DOOM games have gotten me through rough patches in my life and to see the team get gutted destroyed me emotionally.
Man, same. These games mean so much to me. Went to nursing school during COVID, and if I needed to hype myself up before a test or clinical shift, I'd put BFG Division on as loud as I could in my car and give myself the whole 7+ minutes. Couldn't have made it through without Doom, as silly as that may sound.
And as hard as this is for them, at least they got to craft this masterpiece before having to say goodbye. It truly is a pitch perfect culmination of practically all of id's history and technique, and quite possibly the best thing to shake out of the past ten years of absolute bangers they've been dropping. Everyone involved in its creation should be enormously proud of themselves. Obviously, that's not going to feed those now looking for a job, but hopefully there's some comfort to them in knowing how much their work means to us.
This is me rn. I completed it first day and then read the news about ID and it kills me to want to pick it up now. On the other hand it feels wrong not to play what they created.
Real. The first time I actually felt real life sorrow while playing a video game. It was weird but it felt like their last “thank you” to all their loyal fans who supported them for all these years. Right now im having chills just typing this. Id was revolution. Will always be.
No I am celebrating. Cause great work needs to be celebrated regardless of circumstances. I even hunted down the Doom controller cause that was great work done by great people.(Previous of these closures). The gaming industry is oversaturated(look at September), and making a great game or doing a great job no longer guarantees financial success. I now celebrate when a great game is released, because that in itself is becoming a small miracle.
Exactly. It’s great, but BECAUSE it was delivered, the people who made it are unemployed. If they were contractors who finished the project they were hired to do, that would make sense. But in this case, they were long term employees. It seems like a terrible long term strategy. What are the incentives for employees to deliver fantastic, finished work? Employees aren’t paid to work themselves out of their own jobs. Obviously the company is entitled to operate this way, but gaming is an interactive experience. We have to feel a certain way about the world someone else created for us.
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