DOOM's Developer id Software Has Supposedly Lost Around 50% Of Its Team

Xbox: "We need more, better games..!"
Also Xbox: "Close these studios and let's get rid of hundreds of developers."

Sometimes I think Xbox completely forgot how (good) games are made..

It kills me how Sony can kill physical games and Microsoft can kill hundreds of jobs and some people still think Nintendo is the scum of the earth.

Not saying Nintendo is perfect. Rather, everyone else is so much worse in comparison.

Lesson here: Don’t let yourself get bought by Microsoft. They are an awful company and don’t care. For them there’s no intrinsic value in any of this - gaming is a thing they want when it’s popular and they kill when something else comes along.

@Bizzyb

While I understand the gut reaction to lay offs and agree they suck, it's important to put things in perspective.

Over the last 5 years, Xbox added over 20,000 people, 13,000 from buying activation alone. Because you're more likely to comment if you're angry and comments are the business of news sites, we're getting articles about how 3200 people were let go and the sky is falling, even though that hasn't happened yet (it's only 1600 today and the other 1600 might come from normal attrition rather then lay offs) rather then a more measured representation of how Xbox has actually increased the size of their work force by 10s of 1000s of people, even after this restructuring.

They also have not closed a single studio or cancelled a single game. They moved the leadership from 4 studios outside of Xbox (meaning no guaranteed funding in the future), but all 4 of them are still receiving full funding from Microsoft for all current projects.

To add even future perspective to that, in the same time period Sony has closed 5 studios (Japan Studio, PixelOpus, London Studio, Firewalk Studios and Neon Koi) and has reduced their overall staff by around 1100. They have also cancelled 21 games that we know of.

But because everyone loves Sony (until recently!) and everyone loves to hate Microsoft, Microsoft adding staff, not closing any studios and not cancelling any games is the END OF THE WORLD, while Sony reducing staff, closing studios, and cancelling more games then they have released isn't even worth an article.

I tend to be wiry of articles that try to get people worked up by picking on easy targets, and I try to look at the bigger picture when they pop up. I don't know, I think it's a good habit. I sure spend a lot less time angry!

Missed opportunity to say in the sub-header that the layoffs have been, “Hell on Earth.”

@HeadPirate call me crazy, but everyone seemed to get pretty mad at sony recently. microsoft is definitely more of a punching bag but i think it's just a failure of your own exploration if somehow you've never seen articles lambasting sony.

@JR150 Nintendo wins by doing less than nothing

@squiddu-real

"But because everyone loves Sony (until recently!)" is literally in my post.

Sad times, especially if you've been working somewhere for as long as Michael Maynard did. I agree that it does feel as if they're just another bunch of assets. Which bring us to exactly the point; big corporations don't (usually) care about people, they care about profit margins, revenue and keeping stakeholders happy.

Horrible news. Not even 40 years of success can save you.

@HeadPirate thank you to be rational for once. Too many people get immediately worked up without thinking logically.

Xbox didn't do anything crazy here. There's too many people working in these companies and they said it themselves, too many layers of management and everything take ages to be decided.

Also to respond to some people above, you definitely don't need studios made of 2000/3000/4000 people to make a good game. There's a point where that create more confusion and less cohesion in the project you're trying to create.

And another thing. Where in the world can you except to release nothing of value for 6- 7 years and expect to keep your job?
Some of these company has only made games that were not successfull or no games at all over that period of time.

WTH is wrong with Microsoft//Xbox all they do is ruin great IPs. I remember being totally dejected when they bought Rareware - look at it now. Urghh. I just wish they could stop hoarding IP and give it to someone who would make it shine.

@HeadPirate THIS!!!!!! THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!!!!!!! Well said! The hypocrisy is extreme.

At the end of the day people are NOT buying Xboxes or Xbox games. At some point they have to do what they have to do.

@HeadPirate While it's important to put things in a broader perspective, the layoffs at Id in particular are significant enough to warrant some level of outrage.

Idtech is one of the very few AAA custom game engines left and its future is now in doubt. The way things are going, all AAA development will be on Unreal only. There's a real danger of expert game development knowledge being lost here.

I think what they’ve done to ID is beyond stupidity

@HeadPirate I think you are missing the bigger picture regarding ID in particular. These layoffs just show just how clueless this leadership is. It’s about money and nothing else. Xbox don’t care about games anymore.

People see news like this and their first reaction is to defend it and parrot out rhetoric in bad faith so they can be seen as enlightened by others who don’t know any better.
@GoldenSunRM
Id before this had around 200 employees possibly even less than that and has consistently released high quality games since 2016 and that includes the meaty expansions to Eternal and Dark Ages so what are you even going on about? If you’re going to attempt to move the goalposts then don’t bother replying.

@Aerona Literally doing nothing.

@SalvorHardin Spot on. This is a terrible strategy that will backfire in the end. The leadership have no clue.

And with my view of the nu-DOOM games, all I have to say is the old saying: "Nothing of value was lost"

(except for those poor employees jobs which I hope they get back on their feet asap)

ATARI should but ID Software like they bought Nightdive.

Just think how many creatives we could save by cutting just one or two of these clearly effective CEOs.

@Bizzyb MS promoted the MS AI CEO to XBOX CEO. So....

This is the problem with fewer, bigger companies buying up all the other companies.

@HeadPirate I'm not so sure about adding 20,000 jobs in 5 years. For 1, they didn't really add jobs by buying studios, they just slapped their name on someone else's homework. I also came across a few articles listing their headcount in 2024 as 22,000 total. It seems unlikely to me that they went from 2,000 people to 22,000 in that time frame.

All that said, sure, it's ragebait if they had only laid off people just now.

But that would ignore the mass lay offs in January 2024, May 2024, September 2024, and July 2025. It would also ignore the studio closures at Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.

@JR150 To be honest, I've always respected Nintendo way more because of how they treat their employees.

The CEO then, Iwata, even cut his salary in half just to avoid layoffs when Wii U flopped. Yes, they are very aggressive with their own IPs and they don't have sales that much but they also protect the people who created them aggressively. It's one of the reasons that Nintendo always have a special place in my heart.

P.S. their conservative business strategies really prove them right all these years.

teaming up with MS doesnt end well

@HeadPirate there have been mass layoffs out of MS over the last four years. A number of games were cancelled, including Perfect Dark and Everwild. I believe The Initiative also closed when PD was cancelled. Redfall killed Arkane Austin. Arkane Lyon is in trouble. They’re gutting studios and acting like the games aren’t going to suffer because of it.

IOI had a contract with them for a game, the contract was ended, and now they’re closing a studio and the game is on indefinite hold. I’m sure there are plenty of other examples I’m forgetting.

Both Sony and Microsoft have mismanaged their acquisitions in different ways, but leading to the same ends. And yeah, they’re not done.

@Bizzyb to be fair, A LOT of thr studios they closed and people they laid off were involved in making games that were financial failures. (Compulsion games: South of Midnight was a Flop. Double Fine: Keeper and Kiln were massive flops. Undead Labs: hasnt made a single game since 2018, Obsidian: Avowed and Outer worlds 2 both underperformed).

I get that it sucks when people lose their jobs, but Xbox had waaaay to much fat that needed trimming in their studios. Specially considering the new CEO said their projects had 14 layers of middle management.

They had a very "hands off" approach to their studios, mostly letting them do as they pleased and that obviously wasnt working, and a good chunk of them were not making money. So I totally see why a reset was deemed necessary.

@ottoecamn but shouldn't the idea of having a large, diversified business be that you can let people take some swings and have some misses? I would note that in their own email, they don't say they're losing money, just that their profit margins aren't as good as some competitors.

It reminds me of the strategy a different company takes, with a few tent pole franchises surrounded by a lot of less successful games that occasionally fall flat on their face.

In other words, in Microsoft's world, bye bye Metroid. Bye bye, Fire Emblem. So on and so forth.

I hope Microsoft implodes and just disappears from the face of the Earth. It'd be better for humanity as a whole

Xbox should've NEVER been allowed to buy Bethesda or Activision. This was a known result from the beginning and it happened regardless.

I wonder if offering switch 2 upgrades for some of their switch 1 games, even at like 1$-5$ apiece, could have helped increase some revenue.

That's sad. As far as quality goes, i would say id are the kings of the FPS genre.

I know Phil Spencer ruined too much over decade since 2013 and left earlier this year then woman took over now since March this year yet she continues ruining Xbox other then bring some stuffs back. Lmao don't trust Microsoft at all!!

@CRASH64
They were in the 90's. But that crown has been passed around quite a few times since then.

I love my Xbox Series X but Xbox have been rubbish lately and for long time now since Xbox One launched. Disappointed with everything Xbox offers.

Nintendo Switch 2 best!! 🎮🎮🤩😍🤩 😍

Xbox wanted to buy Nintendo. Nintendo laughed in their face reportedly. They dodged a COLOSSAL bullet there

Sony and Microsoft can continue kissing and shooting each other foots while Nintendo having good and fun time!!

If they were completely shuttering companies, that might be one thing. But to be fired because you've been deemed a "redundancy", that's terrible. They're maintaining the value of the brands they own, while eliminating the people that built it up. "We'll just find other people who can do it, and most likely at a lower cost to us." This is just one example of what companies do all the time, and seemingly now with more frequency and reckless abandon.

@NintendoWife Sony has also been killing studios.

@-wc- Nintendo does just as much shady stuff as they do.

Super depressing ☹️

I just got dark ages on PC and it’s incredible. This is a terrible way to treat such a talented team.

After playing the Doom TDA dlc last night, I miss Doom 2016 even more now than ever. Doom TDA is just missing that 2016 atmosphere and I remember enjoying the gameplay loop so much more in that game. Add to that , we will probably not get another Doom game for at least a decade due to Microsoft’s poor business decisions.

I hope that idSoft went independent or gets bought by Atari like Nightdive did so we get more titles coming to all platforms. I'm still hoping we get Doom RPG 1 & 2 for Switch or Switch 2 someday.

@AG_Awesome I would certainly pay for a Doom 2016 switch 2 upgrade

sony and microsoft imploding on themselves which is wat we call FAFO with their really dumb decisions as of late.

I was starting to consider picking up my first non-Nintendo console since the 360 just to get true physical versions of some of these key card games, but now I don't think I want to risk giving Microsoft or Sony a single cent.

Feels like I'm on a ship that's taking on water while the only other big boats in sight just rammed straight into an iceberg. I don't really want to swim to the Steam sandbar and start building up a castle that could be washed away at any time or to hitch a ride on a pirate ship, so I guess I'll just keep bailing ineffectually and hope we avoid sinking any further.

id Software is one of the OG developers that knew how to marry limit-pushing software with incredible game and level design.

They deserve better than this.

This industry is way too bloated. This HAS to happen. Time for 'devs' to get a taste of the real world.

I really wish Nintendo would start spending some of that mind boggling amount of wealth they have and start purchasing some western game developers and make their first purchase ID Software.

Both companies have had a good relationship for many decades, I purchased Doom on the Super Nintendo for example, they would be a great investment.

Imagine ID software developing a Metroid game 😳

@LeJuiceCup I don't care for Sony either. But MS is so clearly ice-cold... whenever one of their figureheads proclaimed their "we are gamers at heart" shtick I was in disbelief how anybody could fall for it.

@OpheliaDynamight the thing about taking swings and having some misses is that you gotta get some homeruns in that make up for the misses.

People aren't owned jobs, and no business in their right mind is gonna keep paying people who do nothing but lose money.

You compare it with Nintendo but, in their case, Fire Emblem WAS gonna go bye bye until Awakening revitalized the series and proved it was worth keeping around.

Microsoft actually had that same mentality as Nintendo for years, they were very hands off with their studios ans IPs. And the result was the various financial failures they had.

What they need now is smaller teams, solid visions, and agile development. Not 14 layers of l bureaucracy and thousands of people not contributing.

You read this stuff and think its somehow bad for gaming, when the reality is that a pretty large percentage of the people getting laid off are actually middle-managers that served no obvious function, served a redundant function, or just plain didn't do their jobs. Yes, we're hearing more from the vocal minority-actual creators who built great things-but a lot of this is simply long overdue consolidation that Phil Spencer either didn't have the courage or the interest in addressing himself along the way.

It sucks when anyone loses a job, sure, but when the only real noteworthy game getting cancelled here is a sequel to an IP that was generally ignored (Avowed), what difference does it make to the end consumer?

And for the record, Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, AND Nintendo are all rather shady if you look at them without rose-colored glasses. Their businesses first and foremost. Their business just happens to be selling us entertainment that we consider to be art in many cases. I can't honestly say I love any one of them, despite being a customer of all 4.

Shocking consequences of totally inept and shortsighted management. Microsoft do not deserve to own id software and I hope they go independent before its too late.

@GoldenSunRM I haven't logged in here in years but I had to for this article because absolutely none of what you said applies to id.

id lost 136 people, over 50% of its staff. This studio wasn't made up of 4000 workers, it was no more than 250. That's roughly half of other large studios.

iD also did not take 6-7 years and produce nothing. They consistently released Doom games every 4ish years. Compared to any other game studios like 343i or Bethesda Game Studios. id was very well organised and efficient.

The biggest problem that Doom TDA faced was the price tag that MS placed on it.

Edit: I have to edit my comment because id did not lose "roughly 50%", they lost closer to 75%. They lost 136 staff members out of 186. They now only have 49 devs at the studio.

Asha has killed id Software.

@Liam_Doolan according to other's reporting its upto 73% now which means they can no longer make games themselves

I can certainly empathize with these individuals and contrary to what some posters have said I imagine these are mostly front line assets doing the tough work with a smaller percentage being leads. The same thing happens more and more in the tech industry as interchangeable corporate folks are moved into roles previously held by people with real world experiences. This happened to myself and others when the company cut everyone above a certain level. I had well over 20 years there and everything I worked on myself or with a team made a lot of profit. They call it a “business decision” to make it less personal. I worked some small contracts and landed at another company doing hardware and software design but they made poor decisions during COVID and over hired and then the contraction hit. They fired 75% of the employees but I survived this one but they cut everything like pay and benefits. Things just aren’t the same anymore.

@uncleMike

I understand where you're coming from, but for me, I don't know, I just find it hard to think Microsoft is thinking "just close all the studios" when they literally did not close any studios, or that they are thinking "get rid of all the developers" when they have increased staffing levels.

Redundancy happens when you buy studios. Far be it from me to defend a trillion dollar corporation or a practice I find distasteful, but if you buy 6 studios, you end up with 6 human resources departments, when your parent company already had one. You now have 6 new "heads of marketing" and 6 new "social media managers". You don't need these people, and there is no where you can reassign them in your organization. Some of the people they got rid of were developers, sure, but the bulk is redundancies like this.

More so, look at a studio like Compulsion Games. An important flip side of this argument is that WITHOUT Microsoft, they absolutely close after South of Midnight. We Happy Few already under preformed and they used all their money on the next project, which also failed. If they were independent, or if they were owned by Embraceor Group or some other investment fund, that's it. Closed, everyone out of work. But Microsoft funded one more game, and is still paying for that game to be made after moving Compulsion outside of Xbox, even though that game is pretty big risk given the studio's track record.

It's just hard for me to look at that and see Xbox as cackling bond villains firing everyone they can and closing everything they can close. To me, it looks like these decisions were given a great deal of thought, and in all honesty, I think it turned out a lot better for these studios then if they were owned by someone else.

@OpheliaDynamight

Excellent points.

It's really hard to pin down number for "Xbox" because Microsoft has a history of moving people between teams. Some of the teams that "support" Xbox, including developers, work under different Microsoft umbrellas. But the gross over simplification would be to focus on what we know for sure; Activision came with 13,000 people. Lay-offs in the last 5 years do not total 13,000 people. So unless they are hiding the majority of Activision in a closet somewhere, staffing has increased and not decreased.

As for other mass lay-offs, you're not wrong. But mass hiring also happen. New studios open all the time. Projects get expanded all the time. We can again simplify things be simply asking when the last time there has been an article about Microsoft, or EA, or Ubisoft, or any other large but generally disfavored player the game industry adding people? We hear about studios closing all the time, when was the last time you read about one opening? The industry saw growth and added jobs in 2025, so stories about INCREASES in staffing should be more common then stories about staffing cuts, seeing increases happened more often.

But that is absolutely not what we get. I mean, not to make this a rant, but we can go enough further and notice that when we DO get the rare article about staffing increases, it's always from the "White Knights" like Monolith Soft or some indie darling. So we get people who are always mad at Microsoft because they think everything Microsoft does is awful, and love small studios because they only do good. Yet the only time anyone writes an article about Microsoft is when they do something negative and we only hear about small studios when they do something great!

Don't get me wrong, Microsoft is an evil trillion dollar multinational and I absolutely do not defend them or think the world is better because they exist. But people should be more aware of how they are being manipulated.

I've been saying that Microsoft is wildly mismanaging its studios since January 9, 2017. Folks insisted that Phil is a great guy. I still think he is great guy, just like he always has been a horrible manager though. Asha is worse though. Phil couldn't handle spreadsheets, I figure, Asha can't look beyond them, not for the life of her. That is a great skill in certain setups, but not when you are meant to produce lasting brand value in an entertainment biz.

It's not on Asha Sharma though, it's on Satya Nadella. He ended id Softs' legendary 35-year-run in the industry.

That is not just a huge disservice to "XBOX", but to the industry at large. I would even argue to our very culture. id made great interactive art. The fact that Nadella is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is a disgrace.

It is absolutely astonishing that Xbox can lay off their most talented and hardworking teams while executives get huge bonuses for cost cutting.

Contrary to what many of the comments here are saying, the vast majority of those laid off will be individual contributors, not managers. They are the ones who bear the brunt of Microsoft’s pure greed.

@HeadPirate Are you aware of the numerous studios Microsoft has closed over the years?

In 2024 alone, they closed Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), Arkane Austin (Redfall), Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom), and Roundhouse Studios.

Previously, Microsoft shuttered Lionhead Studios (Fable) in 2016, Press Play (Max: The Curse of Brotherhood) in 2016, and Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires, Halo Wars) in 2009.

@Richnj well I thank you for the clarification, as I wasn't well informed about the situation of ID Software in particular.

Still, that post was more talking about Microsoft Studios as a whole tough.

@Qwiff

I think you're saying two things. Let's start with the part I completely agree with. Getting rid of some of the more experienced people at ID is hard to justify, and seems the exact type of lay-off that makes Japan the current powerhouse of gaming. The guy who worked at Monolith Soft was 20 years isn't a number to Nintendo. He's a asset. He's worth his paycheck for the experience he brings to the team and his ability to mentor others well beyond what he beings to game development directly. Even if his team put out some bad games of had a run of bad luck, his job wouldn't be on the chopping block because he is basically irreplicable. Don't fire your specialists! And while the cuts to ID make sense from a "cycle" standpoint (they are currently not involved in any major project and are instead wrapping up support for the new DOOM), the logic of cycle hiring and firing is itself extremely flawed to begin with. But it's hard to pin that on Microsoft, it's an industry wide standard ... at least in the West.

As for unreal ... I would have to do some actual research (and I'm not really at a place where I could right now), but my gut tells me that when you're speaking of true AAA releases, custom engines are going to be more common then unreal. In fact, I would go as far as too say that's kind of a hallmark of the triple A game. If you don't have the budget to make your own engine or the pedigree that means you already have one, you use unreal. It is something you do because you have to, not because you want to.

I think what you're saying is true, that more and more games are just relying on unreal, but I also think we need to look at how we are tossing around terms like AAA and Indie. To me, who's been around the scene far too long, a game like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor isn't AAA. It's just big budget. AAA comes from movies, where it means you have an A list studio, an A list director and a A list leading actor. Judi Survivor is from respawn, sure, but the creative director, lead developer, and most team leads have very little star power and it uses unreal.

So it's like we agree at a conceptual level, but I'm personally more likely to look at a game using unreal and say "no custom engine, not AAA"

@HeadPirate Thanks for your thoughts.

We agree conceptually, yes, but I do wonder if it's useful to define a "true" AAA game as not using a third-party engine. It depends on whether the dev is using the engine as an off-the-shelf solution or is investing in building expertise.

For example, CD Project Red is moving to Unreal from their internal RED engine for the next Witcher, but also contributing to Unreal development in general. The upcoming Halo remake is another example of a studio making the switch to Unreal from an internal engine. On the other hand, Gears of War has always used Unreal and its dev probably has the most Unreal expertise outside of Epic. I would consider all these franchises to be AAA.

The loss of Idtech would be a blow to the industry, because it would mean there'd be less diversity in engine tech and thus less opportunity to learn from each other.

The industry is going through some dark times. Studios closing left and right, and the anti-consumer decisions the platform makers are pushing through just keep piling up.

So like...does this mean we will never get a port of Doom the Dark ages on Switch 2?

@Bizzyb no man they bought activision for a insane amount of money and the hundreds of IPs activision owned from Atari -ps5 games hundreds of IPs and games for complete ownership of more software and in the deal they said we’re gonna let go of all the developers from most of those IPs . There probably letting go of all the people who complained about the purchase of there games and such let go of the disgruntled developers and slowly build up your own company of devs . They knew that when they bought all those games they were going to fire all these people they had to . Too many people who didn’t want to work for Microsoft now suddenly working for them wasn’t feasible. In 10 years most if not all those dev teams be replaced by new devs .

@RumandCohibas

While there are a variety of reasons this is unlikely and probably a bad idea even in the minds of Nintendo's execs. . . if it did happen, number 1 consequence you would have to accept? Doom now being a Nintendo exclusive. Because make no mistake, if Nintendo bought Id they would expect Id to only produce games for Nintendo consoles from then on out. No Doom on Xbox, no Doom on Playstation, and no Doom on PC. Period.

( Which is the biggest reason why Nintendo wouldn't really consider buying Id in the first place: too much of their value as a brand and studio would need to be written off on day 1, since its sales on platforms that would not continue, to a large percentage of customers who would not follow them. )

@SausageLink So then what was the point? Why not just create special promotional or "timed exclusivity" deals?

There's literally no reason to outright BUY all of these studios/IPs if you're just going to completely Gut, Fire and CLOSE them all in the next few years, losing Invaluable talent, knowledge and Experience in the process.

These IP/Studios mean absolutely NOTHING without the people...the Knowledgable People there that made them what they are. Nintendo Fully Understands this and is a Prime reason why they are not only Alive but Still VERY Relevant 40 years later, still in the game (so to speak)

Make it Make sense...🤷‍♂️

Well id software's problem, along with most of the rest of the industry, is one and the same. Their tent pole is exactly one game... And it's a AAA game... They need to have AAA games, but they also need to be putting out other smaller games that are not so ambitious, I would absolutely love it if they made an old-timey Boomer shooter.. it would be easy enough to make and if they had high quality they could sell a lot, make a lot of money, I don't quite get this business model. They have that you should spend gazillions of millions of dollars making one game and then sell that one game and then go on to the next AAA game, they need to diversify.

On a second note, I hope this does not slow down any work on switch. 2

@Bizzyb the point was Sony and Nintendo had a solid dozen ips they kept cycling through making banger games and all Microsoft had was perfect dark banjo kazooie and halo and gears . They had alot of exclusivity on there original console . The 360 had a lot at first then a lot of those games went to ps3 they fell behind and had the money to buy Minecraft first then they bought zenimax which Bethesda was very vocal about not wanting to make there games for Xbox only when they were bought. Starfield was projected to be a huge success and Xbox got scared and bought the entire zenimax to really buy doom , wolfenstein elder scrolls and fallout plus starfield. It was leaked in a email the guy who ran Bethesda and elder scrolls was super pissed about being bought out and made to make Xbox only games. Then activision shopped around call of duty and a couple ip only for 20 billion id i remember that was all they wanted to sell then the owner of activision sold them all out for 89 billion dollars just thrown all those devs life work to Xbox . It’s greed Xbox was being made fun of for not having as many ip as Nintendo and Sony and they now own 10 times as much if not more than both companies together. They don’t need any devs they can fire them all every single one and make money off all the games they own in subscription based services that was there plan then Gamepass something happened with it after that deal i stopped paying attention but they were always gonna fire everyone mostly. They bought rare and a lot of rareware employees were vocal about not wanting to listen to Xbox leadership they didn’t want to be bought by them they tried selling 100% company stock to Nintendo and Nintendo sold there 51% to Xbox and Xbox bought the rest . They were the first to get screwed by the company. Not the last rareware is still one of the greatest companies ever in gaming but they lost motivation after they got bought I’d expect the same from id software and Bethesda and the other hundreds of studios that were bought activision sold them hundreds and hundreds of developers Xbox didn’t want developers they wanted the game library and got it thinking now we got games . They were never interested in making games they wanted to buy Nintendo and just own gaming . Nintendo didn’t sell funny last point here .Xbox bought activision for 90 billion dollars and let go of most of the devs . Nintendo just invested that amount into a new Nintendo building they invested in themselves and the company future. You gotta look at the big picture. A lot of devs are going to start new studios and stay independent. Xbox did what they thought was best for their company. I blame activision not Xbox .

Well… I think I’ll give up on doom dark ages for switch 2
Also switch 2 versions of 2016 and eternal

My company retrenched 50% of its staff. That included me and was only me. That's how small were. Obviously no one cared. As much as this situation stinks with id, it's the reality of the corporate world. Id likely decided this path of selling itself to Microsoft and enjoying the short term riches and security, and the marketing and financial force of Microsoft. That's the risk taken! Who knows if id keeps all its staff if it stayed independent. Making games is incredibly expensive now. The current Xbox generation could hardly be described a success, and Game Pass was a money loss. Wasn't it only a few months ago that consumers recoiled at the price of Game Pass increasing?

I'm pleased id still has 50% of its staff. If that comprises mostly of designers, then there's probably no great loss. The more generic duties can be done by other employees or automated tools.

M$ strikes again!