Black Raven Dragoons

Read about that last week. As the Oculus and similar devices become a thing, someone like Carmack working in that market will make things a bit more interesting. It's sad to see him move on from ID but it's not like we didn't see that coming once Bethesda acquired them. To be fair, Carmack has his hands in all kinds of stuff and it makes sense he would like to focus more on his other ventures.

Grimblast wrote:Read about that last week

Yeah, saw it on HN and forgot to post it a while ago. I was going through some forgotten tabs.

This is the second major resignation at id, so I suspect Bethesda's pressure probably has something to do with it. Particularly since they've dramatically changed much of how id works internally (Rage got rushed after the acquisition) and how they treat their game engines (Tech 5 will never be open sourced or licensed to 3rd parties, for instance). It seems stupid, and I'm sure the market competition for game engines factored partially into the decision, but if Bethesda wants to trash id, that's fine. They haven't produced anything overly interesting since Doom 3, and that felt like a tech demo more than a game.

Sad but true. There you go, creative destruction.