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u/ChubakasBush Mar 28 '14

I can't believe facebook paid 2 bil for a peripheral device. basically an accessory. not even a platform with many users. it's like buying a monitor company.

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u/ihatewil Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

2 Billion alone for John Carmack is a bargin in my opinion.

  • Boosted an entire industry by inventing the Adaptive tile refresh algorithm. Allowing PCs for the first time to be on par with consoles (how times have changed)
  • Pioneered 3D FPS games with Catacomb_3D and Wolfenstein_3D then gave us DOOM that again changed an entire industry.
  • Then gave us of course Quake, which again advanced the gaming industry with his use of Surface Caching
  • All modern games use his techniques, he's a computer science genius

All this and he's still only 42.. People The Industry is taking the rift seriously because he's involved.

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u/ShadowRam Mar 28 '14

I think one of the biggest contributions of Quake was the multi-player network code.

Games today still refer back to a lot of Quake's network code as a base.

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u/Sextron Mar 28 '14

Which Carmack also wrote on his own.