Die Nachricht hat uns genauso überrascht wie euch:

John Carmack schrieb in seinem .plan darüber, daß id Software ein neues DOOM Spiel machen wird. Die ganze Spekulationen in den vergangenen Monaten scheinen also recht gehabt zu haben. Hier ein Ausschnitt aus dem .plan von John Carmack:

Several factors, including a general lack of enthusiasm for the proposed plan, the warmth that Wolfenstien was met with at E3, and excitement about what we can do with the latest rendering technology were making it seem more and more like we weren´t going down the right path.

I discussed it with some of the other guys, and we decided that it was important enough to drag the company through an unpleasant fight over it.

An ultimatum was issued to Kevin and Adrian (who control >50% of the company): We are working on DOOM for the next project unless you fire us

[…]

t wasn´t planned to announce this soon, but here it is: We are working on a new DOOM game

Eine weniger erfreuliche Nachricht ist, daß Adrian Carmack und Kevin Cloud Paul Steed gefeuert haben, hier ein Auszug aus John´s .plan:

It went smoother than expected, but the other shoe dropped yesterday.

Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.

Paul has certainly done things in the past that could be grounds for dismissal, but this was retaliatory for him being among the „conspirators“.

I happen to think Paul was damn good at his job, and that he was going to be one of the most valuable contributors to DOOM.

Man könnte den Eindruck kriegen, daß id Software sich wegen dieser Entscheidung zerstritten hat… es lohnt sich auf alle Fälle mal den neuen .plan von John Carmack zu lesen, einer der interessantesten der letzten Monate.