{"id":30516,"date":"2012-01-11T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30516"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:46:22","slug":"bethesda-lays-off-id-software-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30516-bethesda-lays-off-id-software-employees","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda lays off id Software employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bethesda<\/a> has issued a statement to Joystiq confirming that they’ve been trimming employees over at id Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously they’re not saying why; only that it’s “standard business practice”.<\/p>\n

Very much like suing indie developers and playing a high profile game of takesy-backsies through the courts over popular IPs.<\/p>\n

“As part of its standard business practice, id [Software] regularly evaluates staffing to ensure it has a workforce that meets the needs of the studio. As part of that process, some id employees were recently let go.”<\/p>\n

id Software’s latest release, Rage, was met with a “meh” response, and hasn’t sold very well, but it legitimately looks like this is just normal post-development trimming.<\/p>\n

Bethesda reassure the gaming world that it is “still recruiting and hiring qualified developers” for id Software, and that “development work on future id titles continues unabated.”<\/p>\n

Future titles? Doom 4, of course.<\/p>\n

Doom 4 was announced way back in 2008 and started getting development attention after Rage shipped.<\/p>\n

Source: Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n
\"RAGE\"<\/a>

RAGE<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy new year! You’re fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":30517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,165,887,1937,1699],"class_list":["post-30516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bethesda","tag-id-software","tag-layoffs","tag-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30518,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516\/revisions\/30518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}