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id Software developer says Microsoft treated the team as "useless" despite best-in-class titles | AltChar

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 days ago

A long-serving id Software developer has publicly criticised Microsoft after this week's layoffs, saying around half the studio was let go despite years of acclaimed work.

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The profit part is when you crash the industry and all the smaller studios go out of business… you can weather the collapse and they can’t.

Then nobody has a choice but to deal with you, consumers and developers both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

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