"My Coronary heart’s With All of You" — John Romero Says id Software program Has "Executed a Nice Job" Shifting the Studio’s Legacy Ahead and Hopes Somebody Is Working to Protect It All Amid Xbox Layoffs

>“I’m so sorry for everybody at id Software program affected by these layoffs,” Romero tweeted.

>“I do know what it looks like to go away id whereas id goes on. It’s an odd and painful factor to step away from a spot that holds a lot of your work, friendships and historical past.

>“The individuals at id have performed a terrific job transferring that legacy ahead. DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein will not be simple names to hold on, particularly in in the present day’s trade. The previous few video games confirmed actual care, ability and respect for what these worlds imply to individuals.

>“A word on digital preservation: id's historical past is critically vital to the historical past of video games. I’ve preserved id’s full early historical past from our begin at Softdisk by way of to August 6, 1996, together with supplies and property that, so far as I do know, id itself not has. I hope somebody is doing the identical for the corporate’s ongoing legacy (the work, code, property, tales and the individuals behind them).

>“I’m pondering of everybody at id in the present day, and everybody else affected by yesterday’s layoffs. Romero Video games was there a yr in the past. I understand how devastating it’s, and my coronary heart's with all of you.”