Can funding be negative?

Depends, if they feel one dev is enough to fuck up a project or if more are needed. The suspense!

Not funny to joke about people losing their jobs.

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usually not but in this case I feel like some of these guys have raped killed and mutilated one of my closest friends of the last decade.. Quake. Their is no room in the industry for these types of people, they SHOULD be flipping burgers at a McDonalds or something its all they seem to be qualified to do. I hope they find other non gaming related work, but I have no pity for anyone laid off from either debacle of a company. It happens when you work for a company ran by fucking idiots.

Elder Scrolls players are getting nervous: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/03/elder-scrol...a-zenimax/

Edit: Also this:

Maybe if the art teams wouldn't have recycled the same public dungeon layouts over and over people would stay interested. Maybe if the inventory system didn't want to make you slam your keyboard at your computer people would stick with this game. Maybe if the CMs actually interacted with the community then the players would stick around through the incredible lag and terrible megaserver issues.

And people say Quake has problems. ;)

this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2014
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good find bro

I'm total reddit nab. ;)

Edit: #esr4lyf

As they explained, you hire someone when a project is starting and growing, not after the job is already done or doesn't need more people. That's why the layoffs were made and why having more funds in the company alone is irrelevant.

So, if there's something big coming to QL, a project, then that means hiring or designating some more people to the project; whereas if there's no project then it doesn't matter for QL that its parent company now has more funds. For instance, if the "2.0" patch is coming up, with cosmetic microtransactions, that needs hiring someone to make the models and skins.

Of course they won't release info on id's employees nor specifically about QL, but if we somehow got access to it then we could know if there's indeed something coming up for QL (someone already hired) or not (not hiring anyone). That's what matters, not the funding.

u live on a diff planet? whats with the wishlist post in every thread and all the conspiracy theories?

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Shut the whole thing down

So many layoffs in this industry or I'm just overreacting? Would love some experts opinion.

More like these things go public now. 5, 10 years ago we didn't hear about layoffs in this industry, which obviously happened all the time.

Lay of those in charge of id!

Zenimax - worst company ever.

fucked up id, fucked up splash damage and ETQW etc.

Lol, id ended on kill 'em all

id fucked itself. Everyone here knows that.

Actually Zenimax's been criticized for not being enough involved in id, splash damage and others.