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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 161 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's worse than that:

Another dev allegedly stripped to the bone is id Software, which according to 3D Realms founder Scott Miller has lost “most, if not all” of its coders.

Article: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/legendary-dev-id-software-allegedly-hit-extremely-hard-by-xbox-layoffs

Man. This is heartbreaking. The Idtech engine is dead, the engine that is extremely optimized and much better that that UT engine junk is dead.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

I swear to god if the next Doom game uses Unreal I'm gonna lose it

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 109 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

it's fucking unbelievable how these morons can gut dev studios when the product that came out of them is to the scale of Doom 2016, Eternal and Dark Ages. Ridiculous.

I hope they band together and start their own company.

Speaking of which, if you know a way for me to find games made by devs that were once part of larger studios that were gutted, I'm interested.

Apparently these devs are treated the same way as Mick Gordon

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not like they havent mismanaged the music projects...
Have the Eternal pre-orders received their OST yet?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope. IIRC they basically told us to fuck off

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Not knowing if you did order it, users were trading casette releases on discogs not too long ago

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah I pre-ordered the collector's edition, expecting to get a vinyl box set IIRC ? Oh well, I mostly got it for the other stuff anyway. The cassette I got isn't actually functional IIRC (never tried it but I recall the edition's booklet saying so) and was just a fancy download code (that wasn't even functional at the time. I should check if it at least works now).

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

So according to discogs (market place for all sorts physical music), users are selling doom eternal casettes on it.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 16 points 1 day ago

Lighting a bowl and playing Quake and Doom wads and mods only this weekend. Let's see 'em off right, lads.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/quake-brutalist-jam-iii.549/