id Software Technical Director John Carmack speaks up about the recent aquisition by ZeniMax and what it means for fans. Industry Gamer has the story.
IG: So were there any other players for id software, or was ZeniMax the only serious bidder?
JC: Throughout our entire history, we've had an endless stream of buyout offers, none of which we followed up on for a variety of reasons. We did have a long term plan for expanding out, but the ZeniMax deal came a long and we decided this is what we wanted to do to boost our plan in the short term.
We had all of these tentative steps to growth in building a third team. We were a profitably private company, but we were growing cautiously and certainly not at the rate of some of the larger studios out there. With Zenimax, we can grow out more aggressively. We have two teams now and we'll develop out a third team in relatively short order. We think that three studios is the maximum; we can keep a handle on that number. We don't want to potentially get four and five studios and get unmanageably large.
On a related note, John Romero put his foot in his mouth after making a harsh remark about the merger on Twitter.
