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In fairness - and I'm a massive id fanboy - the company that gave us quality games and trailblazing tech disappeared when they went to Zenimax.
The publishers admittedly treated them well at the start (Mick Gordon... less so), but this soulless bottom-line thinking was always going to hit them eventually.
Shame.
The arrogance with which Gordon was treated soured me on the whole franchise which is a shame because Doom 2016 is one of my all time favorites. No small part due to his soundtrack.
amen, Loved Doom/doom eternal, but completly skipping the dark age due to that.
I applaud your sense of honor, but Dark Ages is still an excellent game.
Standing on principle requires us to skip games that are good sometimes.
Boycotting serves no purpose if it's a product you weren't goimg to buy anyway.
oh, i was gonna buy it, got the first two on steam.
This. Right there with you. Dead company walking.
Weren't they bought back in the early 2010s? Doom 2016 was great and Doom Eternal has also a great reputation (I own it but haven't played it). So they made good games even after being bought by ZeniMax.
Doom 2016 was also the second attempt. They were struggling hard, with the lackluster sales and reception of Rage and the new Doom being stuck in development hell, before management decided to cut their losses and scrap virtually all of it, save for the quick kills system.
So even more evidence that it wasn't all downhill from the moment ZeniMax bought ID.
Don't get me wrong, fuck ZeniMax and all the big corporation that gobble up smaller corps just to push their share prices and sell them off or close them as soon as it looks like it would help their share price. But in this case it seems a little bit more complex than just ZeniMax bad.