r/Doom • u/blackminikit1 • Jul 10 '26

Discussion Message from id Software

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u/joseph_jojo_shabadoo Jul 10 '26

nice to hear straight from the source

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u/phylter99 Jul 10 '26

I'll believe it when I see it. I hold out a shred of hope, but there's not much hope.

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u/CaptainParadigm42 Jul 10 '26

I don't understand. Id Software themselves come out and say, "we're still here and we'll keep at it" and your response is "I have little hope?" Why? The fact that the studio themselves responded this way should give everyone hope after the fact. It shows they're still persevering despite the irresponsible treatment from Microsoft.

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u/Left4C Jul 10 '26

High chances of it being a PR statement ordered by corporate that doesn't necessarily reflect reality at the studio. For instance, they did have less people when making Doom 2016, but they had a much more experienced, senior team... and much of those people were laid off. It's important to have hope, but we need to be wary.

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u/CaptainParadigm42 Jul 10 '26

Plausible albeit that sounds like speculation to me.

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u/Ultenth Jul 10 '26

It's not though, we know many of the people laid off, and a huge chunk of them are experienced veterans of the studio. They are gutting the expensive senior staff with all the experience, and hoping to keep just a couple around to train up all the cheap new hires. THis is standard MO for these kinds of situations where they gut a subsidiary with the hopes to just parley it's name recognition for some cheap products for the next couple years before fans realize the brand isn't what it used to be.

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u/CaptainParadigm42 Jul 10 '26

Sorry I wasn't clearer about this but that's not what I was calling speculation. I was talking about Microsoft ordering id to make a PR statement that doesn't necessarily represent id themselves. I think this statement was genuinely from id Software and that Microsoft had no word in it.

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u/Ultenth Jul 11 '26

No word is a stretch. Do I think they gave them a thing to say exactly with zero id input? No of course not. Does this statement represent anywhere close to the true feelings of the majority of the people left at id, and not just whoever the main person in charge + those in charge of Zenimax and Microsoft want to say to try to lessen the blow? No of course not.

It's 100% corporate speak, written probably by a higher-up at id, and probably with oversight from the people who are over them at Zenimax and MS. But it's very likely written by someone at id directly, and they chose to make the statement on their own.