For your reading pleasure (if you haven't already read it) - id will NOT be focusing on the PC in the future, consoles are the bigger money maker so eff those of us that built 'em /shrug.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/08/carmack-pissed-about-rage-issues-but-admits-id-doesnt-see-pc-as-leading-game-platform/


A paste of the "good part":

He even went on to call the whole thing a clusterf– well, you know. Ultimately, though, Carmack doesn’t believe the incident justifies a return to PC-first game development. He’s nothing if not a realist, and he believes times have changed.

“We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games,” he explained. “That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version. A high end PC is nearly 10 times as powerful as a console, and we could unquestionably provide a better experience if we chose that as our design point and we were able to expend the same amount of resources on it.”

“Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases.”


Disappointment is an understatement, but since id doesn't care enough to respect the fact the PC gamers built them, I don't have enough interest to elaborate on my disappointment.

Good bye id, enjoy your consoles.

We have an existing thread for this discussion: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1238285-oct-7-kotaku-interview-john-carmack/