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Creative gives background to Doom III shadow story on the Inquirer follows-up on the story about id's new agreement with Creative (story) offering a response to criticisms that Creative had blackmailed id Software in this deal. The article quotes Franco De Bonis, audio sales marketing manager at Creative Labs Ireland, so it may not be and "official" statement from the sound card giant. Here's a bit: "You only have to think about this for a nanosecond to realise that Creative was in no position to blackmail anyone. Yes, we had to take a stance to protect our patent, but had we resolutely demanded what most companies in this situation would have, what do you think would have happened? It's very simple, id would have been forced to either pay a huge amount of cash or develop a less optimized method for shadowing that would have impacted performance and this may have caused the game to be delayed. On all counts Creative would have been publically vilified in the press. So blackmail, when id customers are our customers too?? I don't think so."

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Jul 29, 2004, 16:58

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Jul 29, 2004, 16:58

leollama

It's called ethics and moral...If you don't care, it's just sad...
Creative could have been the bigger company and allowed Id to use the code for free or license it for a small fee (few bucks).
But no! It sounds like they said that Creative would Sue Id for using the code! Id would have to make Doom 3(cash cow) compatible with EAX (buggy-low-quality-ass-cash-cow), or else they would sue Id or make Id use a worse code...

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