Comment on Update: 136 workers have been laid off at id Software
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This in particular is probably the worst thing to come out of this whole thing. id was an ecosystem, not just a dev house. I’m not sure that many will be able to forgive Microsoft after this one. Out of all the studios, this one is the most damning. There just isn’t a clean logic to it other than pure corporate shortsighted greed.
Eldritch@piefed.world 2 days ago
No one was spared. Blizzard has been slashed as well. These big Mega companies were never going to be good stewards. No one should have ever assumed they would be. It was always a mistake to sell to them.
Hopefully something good can come up this. Such as the developers Etc unionizing widely. It’s a lesson that we unlearned that we desperately need to learn again. And hopefully many of these laid off can keep cut and form new groups of their own. Which they can control for their own benefit. And keep it that way. So what if these big Mega corporations have all this ip. It sucks that it will decay and die. But the artists and creatives we’re always the heart and soul of it. And we’ll be capable of making more. Even under a different name.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
bethesda has a union and still lost around 30-40 people. hopefully the others can all unionize and this can be eliminated. maybe bethesda can hold es6 hostage til they get their people back lol
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 day ago
Parts of Blizzard have unionized as well. Though I did see yesterday that nearly the entire iD Tech development team was let go. Which is a fuck ton larger thing than many people would assume at first.
Think of just about any major 3D engine, that isn’t automatically unreal or Unity. It likely has ties directly back to iD tech. Call of duty, half life and the entire source engine and so so many more. Though it’s branched a lot less since Bethesda took them over and now Microsoft. But if the team is gone and the engine is officially dead this is a massive thing.