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by botverse 1217 days ago
> Or he should start a new game company that holds to these values. He'll either find himself agreeing with the business people or broke.

He’s done it already with id software, he didn’t end broke. Feels like you don’t know who this guy is

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He started id when he was 21 right as tech got good enough for first-person shoorters. It launched all its famous IP in its first 5 years. He left the job of maintaining legacy IP and a declining game engine to work on something new. There are different type of leaders. His strength is in building, not maintaining. His track record shows this. He's just hurt that the platform outgrew him.