iD didn't make quake4, they seem to have gotten tired of their games, trying to make something "new and different," but we all know how well Doom3 turned out, it got 94%'s across the board for the first 2 weeks, and then people actually played it.

I think the iD guys have gotten bored of making the same type of fun DM multiplayer game that they started doing in the early 90s, after nearly 15 years I'd probably be tired of it too. So they're sending their best franchises over to some so-so dev (Splash damage has the rights for ET: Quake Wars, Wolf: ET, they made the Online part of Doom3; Nerve Sofware made online part of RtCW, Doom3RoE, RTCW Tides of War for the Xbox; Raven Software did Quake4, making the currently untitled Wolfenstein game). The problem is that iD made good multiplayer games that had okay single player. Now they've basically sold off their best brands, and seemingly stopped making Online-DM games. Hell iD hasn't made a multiplayer game since Quake3 in 99, even Doom3's multiplayer was made by Splash damage.

Blaming iD for Quake4 seems to make as much sense as blaming Infinity Ward for United Offensive, sure IW made CoD, but Gray matter made UO, you can't directly blame the quality of the game on someone who didn't even develop it. But, I think the fact that they licensed it to them lets you blame them indirectly, at least partly, more specifically you can see a trend.

iD got tired of making what they were always good at, revolutionary or at least evolutionary multiplayer games, when quite frankly thats what they were really good at.
Oh and releasing a game that ran like crap on ATi and was really only solidly playable on Nvidia cards at a time when ATi was still the gamer market leader(the 6xxx series was just out, hadn't really gotten a hold), well that can't have been a good choice.

Playing a slow game, from a fast game genre, is even less fun when ur doing it at 25 FPS on medium settings at high-level hardware.

iD got tired of making what they were good at making, so yeh, it is the fall of iD, all the brilliant guys over at iD have gotten tired of making good games, hell this next game their doing is probably going to be Carmack's last.

Yeh, sure, the Fall of iD seems to be proper, except, whose going to take their place at competing with Epic? well, step up to the plate someone.

EDIT: Some edits about how their selling off their brands. added the bit on Nerve, Raven, fixed the bit on Splash making q4.

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