Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by tatersolid » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 11:50 AM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #174

thewebguyd wrote: post #112

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Its already started, within Blizzard. Communications Workers of America Union across the WoW and Overwatch teams. Also, no union employees at Blizzard were impact by Microsoft's Xbox layoffs/restructuring. Goes to show, Unions are important and work. The best time to unionize was several years ago. The next best time is now.

Agreed Unions also many times (especially with "guild" type unions) can serve other valuable functions like guaranteeing a higher minimum quality of work (generally).

Guild-style unions seem to be about setting and enforcing cartel pricing, not work quality. At least for the construction and remodeling subcontractors I encounter.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by Narishma » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

LarsDu88 wrote: post #63

Microsoft, one the world's greatest monopolists, bequeaths a game engine monopoly unto Epic Games, in one the biggest corporate blunders of all time. If they were smarter about this, they would commoditize their compliment and open source the Doom The Dark Ages engine just like John Carmack did with the Quake 3 engine.

They did the same thing with their web browser engine years ago.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by Narishma » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

ThatPlayer wrote: post #366

markus_zhang wrote: post #270

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IMO, people should stop chasing making AAA games or whatever nVidia pushed out. They should just build games instead of graphics demos that sometimes sold well. They can stick to desktops 10 years ago, make smaller teams, and either build their own engine or use something that is not UE5.

Ten year old desktop users aren't exactly known for buying new games, especially at full price. The average spending gaming hardware are the consoles. No one is going to start building a game targeting a Playstation 4 today, they'll target the 5 year old PS5.

> No one is going to start building a game targeting a Playstation 4 today, they'll target the 5 year old PS5.

That's not true. New games are still being made for and released on PS4 and will still be for the next few years. If the PS4 hardware is enough for your game, you can just release there and people can play it on PS4 or PS5.

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/new-ps4-games-release-date...

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by Narishma » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 2:44 PM UTC

storus wrote: post #296

One could have anticipated XBox getting slowly destroyed by appointing a young clueless outsider as its boss.

It's not like the previous bosses knew what they were doing either.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by Narishma » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

ranger_danger wrote: post #3

q3dm17 for life.

I never liked this map and don't get its popularity. Same for the one in UT99 with the two towers on an asteroid. They're just too brainless and chaotic for my taste.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by onraglanroad » Sun, Jul 12, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #617

onraglanroad wrote: post #604

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There's a massive difference between being perpetually employed and being fired for no reason at a job you've already demonstrated your ability at.

>being fired for no reason at a job you've already demonstrated your ability at ??? Curious to learn more about how would one ethically justify that? No one owes nothing to another (aside from what's protected by human rights).

You owe everything to other people. What do we owe to each other is literally a joke question in things like The Good Place.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by satvikpendem » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 6:37 AM UTC

_joel wrote: post #616

satvikpendem wrote: post #610

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No, but it doesn't mean the opposite will either. Some solutions are orthogonal and in reality commenters online have no idea what to do in these sorts of business situations and therefore resort to making pithy statements.

What's the opposite of pissing off your customers then? Not pissing off your customers. Pretty simple, you're reading far too much into it, but thanks, it's a while since someone acknowledged my pithy status.

We should put you at the head of a company as clearly you know so much about it. It's not as if these other people haven't tried the same thing and turns out they make no money instead. These "pretty simple" solutions sound good, don't work, as they say.

Re: Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

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Post by jacksnipe » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #326

blanched wrote: post #146

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What are you basing “it delivers more value to customers” on?

Customers are willing to spend more money on it. How else do you define value?

Measuring value that way is precisely what “from a business perspective” means. Things can also be judged on artistic or technical merits, among many other perspectives.