John Carmack, legenda gaminga, napustio je id Software, u potezu koji je verovatno bio potpuno neverovatan i nemoguć do pre samo nekoliko godina (svakako i u periodu kada je id objavljivao svoje hit igre) ali je dobio znatno na “težini” nakon što je Bethesda (tj. Zenimax) kupio id sada već davne 2009 godine. Informacije u tom smeru počele su da se pojavljuju i kada je Carmack pristupio Oculus Riftu tokom leta, tako da je John sve to potvrdio danas, na svom twitteru, kada je rekao sledeće:
“I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn’t work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging!”
I id je iskoristio priliku da se oglasni ovim povodom kroz Tima Willitsa, sada već nekadašnjeg John-ovog kolege koji je biranim rečima objavio Karmakov odlazak, uz donekle “hladnjikav” kontekst:
“John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well”
Da nije sve baš bilo tako “glatko” govori i naredni Karmakov tvit koji se pojavio ubrzo nakon svega ovoga, a koji kaže:
“If they don’t want me to talk on stage at Quakecon next year, we’ll just have to fill up the lobby like the old days. :-)”
Tako da, to je to deco, još jedna era je završena. Mada, ne možemo reći da smo bili posebno zadovoljni onim što je Džon radio proteklih godina, poput RAGE-a, Quake 4 (jel se neko uopšte seća da postoji i ovaj deo igre?) ili DOOM3. Videćemo čemu će se nadalje posvetiti.
