I don’t know if people realize how amazing this is.
People who make games work so goddamn hard and are treated like trash… usually thrown out right after working hundreds of hours in unpaid overtime because they’re so passionate about making something they love…
…And for a studio as major and long-standing as id Software AND it being physically located within the heart of TEXAS is also big.
The techno-artisan work of game development might finally become a field worth getting back into and actually sticking with - instead of how it has been now since the mid-2000s - where people burn out and leave the industry all-together… meaning we have almost zero long-term master game makers except for a handful of people who are at the very tip top.
I personally left games after the studio I worked at for 2 years (making them literal millions per day in revenue at one point) closed down only about a year after our hit game was released.
My heart goes out to the guys at id. They are some of the GOATs and this is something they’ve long-since earned.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Man, I hope the general software industry unionise as well. Its rough out there right now
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It’s also the only way to save it from destruction driven by its major shareholders.