[VGC] Romero Games now ‘completely closed’ following Microsoft cuts, it’s claimed

MS wasted the talents of a legend, one of the foundations of fps gaming. Romero will always be credited for Doom, Hexen, Wolfenstein, Quake, and Duke nukem. Daikatana is his only failure.
 
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I'm sure other publishers were just lining up to throw tens of millions at a guy whose last major game was two decades ago and flopped, and who's been doing indie games and Doom level packs since. He seems like a nice guy but nobody else would consider trusting him with such a large team.

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I can't think of any game they released. In fact this is the first I heard of this studio. The last thing of significance from John Romero i can think if is daikatana and that was a disaster...over 20 years ago.

This isn't a loss, most of these ancient celebrity devs are incapable of producing anything good.
 
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This studio was founded in 2014. Since that time they have released.. nothing

Folks are so distracted by his legacy and name that they lose perspective. This is a studio that was not producing, and by all accounts was no where close to shipping anything.

Microsoft needs games. Not bloated forever projects that don't materialize. They don't owe this studio unconditional funding because the director is a gaming celebrity.

The idea of a game is always better than the reality of one. I get this is upsetting in your mind.. but this one isn't worth losing sleep over.
 
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I didnt know he had a studio!
Me too, and I wish the guy no ill, but what's he done since Doom, other than show the world how not to run studios or make a FPS
Well, I said I was curious, not sure what else to tell you, lmao. I guess take that however you want man. 🤷‍♂️
I'm curious to see what Nintendo do next after Kong, but I wouldn't try make out I'm a massive fan and can't wait to see what they do next
 
He is partly responsible for the most important videogame ever made
Is it more of a John Carmack or John Romero those past achievements on those legendary games of the 90'e like Doom, Wolfenstein, Hexen and Quake? For me, in the 90's when I was still young, i always thought Romero is the brains of everything about Doom.
 
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Did they own the studio? Or they just cut funding to a game?

Well as Phil is always saying, when we're all laid off, we all win
 
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They were funding a game with them by the sounds of it. Given they closed straight after it looks like that was all the funding they were getting.
Yes. They were working on an Xbox project (most likely, the next Quake) since 2021. So all the money (studio expenses) was coming from Xbox.

Considering they have never shipped a product before this, they will no longer have any money to keep the studio open or pay their employees.
 
I have little faith that this would have been a great game, but what is truly unbelievable is that a studio would enter into an agreement where the funding can be unilaterally cut immediately with no notice period, no cautions. An agreement that doesn't pay at least the next few months costs in advance. Insane.
 
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