{"id":85670,"date":"2026-07-09T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85670"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:41:01","slug":"to-continue-being-produced-long-term-games-need-to-succeed-not-just-be-beloved-john-carmack-responds-to-id-software-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85670","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;To Continue Being Produced Long Term, Games Need to Succeed, Not Just Be Beloved&#8217; \u2014 John Carmack Responds to id Software Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>John Carmack has responded to the significant layoffs at Doom developer id Software, expressing sadness but not \u201canger or outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a WARN notice filed in Texas reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/report-around-half-of-the-id-software-team-have-been-laid-off\">Game Developer<\/a> confirmed that 96 workers had been laid off in Richardson, Texas, home of id Software, with a further 40 remote roles cut. Reports indicate 50% of staff have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts come as part of new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma\u2019s \u201creset\u201d of Microsoft\u2019s gaming business, which began with 1,600 staff losing their jobs on Monday. Another 1,600 will be let go during the rest of the current financial year. Four Xbox studios are already out the door, with another hot on their heels.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-value=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Carmack, who co-founded id Software in 1991 alongside John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian Carmack, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ID_AA_Carmack\/status\/2075319665564234012\">took to social media<\/a> to express his belief that the company was a \u201cmarginal business\u201d for Microsoft, and that he couldn\u2019t see an obvious way for it to make more money from its games.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the statement in full:<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.My \u201cMicrosoft will probably be a good steward of the brand\u201d statement isn\u2019t aging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Carmack has responded to the significant layoffs at Doom developer id Software, expressing sadness but not \u201canger or outrage.\u201d On Wednesday, a WARN notice filed in Texas reported by Game Developer confirmed that 96 workers had been laid off in Richardson, Texas, home of id Software, with a further 40 remote roles cut. Reports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85674,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85670\/revisions\/85674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}