No DOOM 3 This Year [Jul 22, 2003, 7:01 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Though id Software basically invented the idea of using "when it's
done" as a release date, and thus did not specify a release date when DOOM
3 was announced (story), many have been assuming that the game
would be available for this year's holiday season (and jcal points out the
DOOM 3 E3 billboard did clearly promise this year). Now a report on HomeLAN
Fed cites Activision's 2003 release calendar
and quarterly
financial conference call to gain a bit more clarity on when to expect the
highly anticipated shooter sequel. Activision admits that this matter is
entirely in id's hands, but that they are not expecting the game this year, and
have it "penciled" on their calendars for fiscal Q4 (Jan-March) 2004.
Further actual release date delays were gleaned from the proceedings as well,
including word that True Crime: Streets of LA is now due in late fall 2003 and
that Rome: Total War, console Call of Duty, Quake IV, and Trinity are now all
due in Fiscal 2005 (which begins April 2004).
Filter,
No way. id Software will not revamp their game because of HL2. I'm sure they feel confident in what they're doing. The schedule slip probably has nothing to do with them worrying about being destroyed by HL2. That may or may not happen in the market quite apart from anything they could possibly do. Sometimes its just not in your control.
I'm pretty sure they ignore most of the griping that gamers do out there. They probably listen to the currents but in the end make the game they want to make. Let others make the games they want to make. The LAST thing I would ever want id Software to do is LISTEN INTENTLY TO GAMERS or have a FOCUS GROUP or some such idiocy. I buy what THEY make because its THEIRS and THEY think its cool, not what YOU or any other gamer makes, which is nothing.
If I don't like it, that's fine, but I would never want any game company to do anything but make a game that they want to make. You can't sustain a project that long any other way. It would be sheer drudgery otherwise.
This comment was edited on Jul 22, 22:10.
No way. id Software will not revamp their game because of HL2. I'm sure they feel confident in what they're doing. The schedule slip probably has nothing to do with them worrying about being destroyed by HL2. That may or may not happen in the market quite apart from anything they could possibly do. Sometimes its just not in your control.
I'm pretty sure they ignore most of the griping that gamers do out there. They probably listen to the currents but in the end make the game they want to make. Let others make the games they want to make. The LAST thing I would ever want id Software to do is LISTEN INTENTLY TO GAMERS or have a FOCUS GROUP or some such idiocy. I buy what THEY make because its THEIRS and THEY think its cool, not what YOU or any other gamer makes, which is nothing.
If I don't like it, that's fine, but I would never want any game company to do anything but make a game that they want to make. You can't sustain a project that long any other way. It would be sheer drudgery otherwise.
This comment was edited on Jul 22, 22:10.
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