id Software: "Surprised And Saddened" By DNF Failure
See Full ImageDuke Nukem Forever is no more and for many, it wasn't all that difficult to believe. But id Software, developer of legendary franchises like Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, really thought it might be a cruel joke.
According to Videogamer, id's director of business development Steve Nix talked about how sad it was to see the DNF team at 3D Realms disappear, and how he had hoped it was nothing more than a rumor. Last month, the team in question was laid off "due to a lack of funding," marking an end to the 11-year saga that surrounded the game that may have spawned the term, "vaporware." In response to this, Nix said:
"For me it was personally sad. I know a lot of people at the studio (id) were really surprised and saddened for sure. We had originally moved to Dallas because Apogee, who morphed into 3D Realms, was our original publisher. So id might not even be in Dallas and a lot of us wouldn’t even be working in the games industry if it wasn’t for Apogee and 3D Realms. So I know for me personally I thought it was a joke when I heard the other day. So definitely, extremely saddened and surprising that those guys aren’t there and we may never see the game we were all looking forward to."
The only good thing that may come out of this - as far as ex-3D Realms members are concerned - is that id is currently hiring, and Nix didn't rule out the obvious possibility... "There are some really talented guys in there so it very well could happen that some of them end up at id," he said. Well, let's just hope that if this does happen, those people will finally have the pleasure of working on a game that eventually gets produced.
6/15/2009 Ben Dutka
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englishgolfer
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:09:27 AM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:10:08 AM
DNF gave it a whole new dimension and almost made it mainstream, outside the gaming populace.
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Highlander
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:20:13 AM
Hmmmm... true, very true. Sorry, for being so picky today.
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tes37
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 3:57:13 PM
It's a shame too, on my part, because I do think there is a lot of good talent working on fps's.
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jfedor
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 @ 1:36:09 PM
Adrian Carmack is actually unrelated to John. He also left id in 2005.
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tes37
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 @ 3:42:06 PM
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I did notice they didn't look kin. I didn't know Adrian wasn't there anymore.
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vicious54
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:50:57 AM
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Bugzbunny109
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:55:12 AM
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tes37
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:45:20 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 5:56:21 PM
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LowKii
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 11:04:05 AM
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NiteKrawler
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 11:34:07 PM
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Highlander
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Monday, June 15, 2009 @ 11:06:16 AM
As for vaporware, it's been around since at least the 80's. There was a great tendancy for companies to announce their latest package before it was complete, often in an attempt to blunt the launch of a competitor's product. There have been times when vaporware actually condensed into real software, although it often lacked some key features which remained vaporware until much later. Microsoft was good at this particular practice - which is why so many people are in the habit of waiting until at least the first Service Pack before updating a new Windows or Office product.