I supposed Valve just had to drop another bombshell in the wake of all the recent DOOM3 press. When all this is over somebody has to make a documentary about how one puppet was controlled by two puppet masters.
I dont see why everyone thinks Valve and id are so bothered about how good each others games are. Its not an either/or choice: most of us will buy both, and those that dont out of some sort of grudge are so stupid they'd probably be incapable of turning on their computer anyway.
Anyone that's seen any info on either game can see that the games are so different in every way other than the fact they are both fps, so if either game is great or awful, it'll be so in its own right rather than because of the respective quality of the other game.
Must add the obligatory "In my humble opinion."
Tango