Linguica Posted July 20, 2001 Not so much Doom news, but it is being reported everywhere that ION Storm appears to have officially closed down and everyone, including founders John Romero and Tom Hall, have been laid off. Both Romero and Hall were instrumental in making Doom what it is, and it always sucks to see this sort of thing happen. Best of luck to them both, as well as everyone else from ION Dallas. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest NunoC Posted July 20, 2001 It's sad to know that, especially considering that Anox seemed to be a rather good game. God damn you, Romero. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted July 20, 2001 That's going to be rather important if I'm ever going to pick up a copy of Anox ... 0 Share this post Link to post
Killes Posted July 21, 2001 Altho i dont own anachronox i have thos to say : Well in the good old days when maybe less money was hanging on the business i remember game creators continuing support to theyr baby even if it had absolutely no profit in it and had to be unofficial. But maybe since this business has become such a megabuck business this state of mind has been corrupted but we may hope that old schoolers such as Romero would provide support for the game, after all Romero recently got back to participating in the doom community...(probly cos now Ion Storm Dallas dosnt operate anymore hes got time on his hands to do this sorta suff :P ) 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted July 21, 2001 Well, that depends on the company. Blizzard for example brings out patches for a long time, fixing the tiniest bugs. I guess that's why they are so successful in what they are doing. 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted July 21, 2001 If this means that there's no threat of Daikatana 2 then the gaming world is a better place. 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted July 21, 2001 You'd never know that by checking out the battle.net forums =( 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted July 21, 2001 Ah! Ling breaks Arioch's record for most links in a news update. Or at least the most links in a row anyway =). 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Oniko Posted July 21, 2001 (Carmack) ...and what makes you think you can work for us, Mr... um... (Romero) Jomero. Ron Jomero. (Carmack) Uh-huh. I know it's you, John; you can take off the fake beard. (Romero) No, it's not me... D'OH!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest WadEd Posted July 21, 2001 Too bad Id isn't hiring anymore, that would be interesting though.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dan Posted July 21, 2001 I wouldn't worry about fixing Anachronox - two missing developers isn't going to be much of a problem. BTW - For those of you who haven't tried out Anachronox yet, do yourself a favour and download the demo. -Dan 0 Share this post Link to post
sgtcrispy Posted July 21, 2001 CURSES!!! 16999999 visitor on ZD and I missed the print screen button! DAMN IT TO THE BLOODY BOWELS OF HELL!!! argh... rant over :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Guest Excalibur_Z Posted July 21, 2001 Are they going to start offering stuff from the ZD store if you're the x millionth visitor now? 0 Share this post Link to post
sgtcrispy Posted July 21, 2001 I think thats what SwampGas is going to do, but who knows 16999999.. so close... ARRGH!!! 0 Share this post Link to post
sgtcrispy Posted July 21, 2001 I DL'd the Anachronox demo and DAMN! 92 megs in 10 mins. (I love my Cable Modem!) I think they redeemed themselves with this masterpiece. I should grab it tomarrow, after the SpeedMapping exercise. Ling, there will be another one right? Right? 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted July 21, 2001 They closed down the Ion Storm Dallas offices too. 0 Share this post Link to post
BillyBlaze Posted July 21, 2001 I wonder if Nintendo programmers ever sit at work muttering "God, I wish we could release patches for our games like them slack old PC developers. We just get it right first time!" Improving performance in a patch is one thing but ironing out bugs??? What the hell happened to QA and testing etc. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dan Posted July 21, 2001 You think console games are without bugs the first time around? Even without show stopping bugs? lol -Dan 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted July 21, 2001 Dan: well it's far more easy to iron out bugs with consoles. Since they don't come with as many configurations as there are ussers. 0 Share this post Link to post
BillyBlaze Posted July 22, 2001 I've played a million and one console games and those that are really worth playing are tight. Some are even polished so well they make me laugh out loud at the over hyped nonsense coming out of the Dallas scene. Anachronox? lol -Wilf 0 Share this post Link to post
Gerbil Posted July 22, 2001 Good riddance for Romero. It's been known in the industry (and publically it seems) that for ages he's been an incredible fool. Daikatana was shite, and deservedly so. Romero's business plan was: 1) Get lots of investment on my name 2) Claim to be creating a game that is far beyond my ability to create 3) Hide Well, they caught up with him eventually. The only question was why wasn't the company shut up before Diakatana was ever released, since it was so obviously a money pit that would never work. The figures didn't add up right from the beginning. Anyway, let's hope he and others learn the lesson that being famous simply isn't enough. Barry gerbil@theburrow.co.uk 0 Share this post Link to post
BahdKo Posted July 24, 2001 Romero is the only one of the doom designers who still plays Doom in any publicly-known capacity. He was the only one who showed up for the CPL Doom2 tournament in Dallas, and he was there for it last year as well. I even seem to remember at least one of ID's people saying, back when Quake1 (the TOTAL piece of shit) came out, "Doom is dead." I donno why so many people seem to be rejoicing whenever Romero has apparrent problems. He's a fellow doomer. It doesent too much matter if people didn't like the games his new company made, Doom-enthusiast people shouldn't be beating him up the way i have seen in this thread. --BahdKo 0 Share this post Link to post