John Romero blasts, then calms down, on id acquisition news

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John Romero blasts, then calms down, on id acquisition news

Posted Jun 25th 2009 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, FPS

It certainly was surprising news on Wednesday when ZeniMax Media announced that it had purchased id Software and its properties. It certainly was surprising to John Romero, one of id's original co-founders but who hasn't been part of the company since 1996. While he's been working in secret at the MMO game developer Slipgate Ironworks since 2005 he certainly had some . . interesting thoughts on this week's news.

On his Twitter page, Romero first stated, "ZENIMAX??????? Disgusting." and later added, "Fallout 3 bought DOOM. Wow.." Later he seemed to calm down saying, " i am positive about the Zenimax deal. my initial reaction was harsh. sorry." His last "tweet" on the subject was downright melancholy, as he stated, "i guess i was shocked and sad to see the id Software of old changed forever today. it's a new day and a new id."

Tags: id-software, john-romero, slipgate-ironworks, zenimax-media

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Like anyone cares about John Romero's opinion on any subject related to the game industry anymore. Sure, he was awesome at id, but really, after Daikatana and the spectacular failure of Ion Storm, does anyone care what he has to say?Posted at 5:34PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Clyde Cash

Well ion storm had some pretty awesome games published Like Anachronox, Thief3 and Deus Ex (which was awsumz!)
thats a pretty good lineup for such a short life. And daikatana wasnt that bad as people said it just wasnt what people did expected and were pretty much pissed at John"Ya'r all ma biach"Romero.
At least he created the opportunity for Deus Ex.Posted at 5:55AM on Jun 26th 2009 by overflow