Carmack once thought EA was the “Evil Empire”
Following the announcement that EA Partners had been chosen to publish id Software’s upcoming Rage, id’s co-founder recently told gaming site GameSpot that he once took a very dim view of the way EA dealt with small studios.
“I’ll admit that, if you asked me years ago, I still had thoughts that EA was the Evil Empire, the company that crushes the small studios… I’d have been surprised, if you told me a year ago that we’d end up with EA as a publisher,” John Carmack said.
However, Carmack said his feelings changed after a number of EA’s existing partners gave the publisher the thumbs up.
“When we went out and talked to people, especially EA Partners people like Valve, we got almost uniformly positive responses from them.”
id Software has historically had a publishing relationship with Activision, although some of its recent mobile and handheld titles have been published by EA. Further details about Rage, which will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Mac “when it’s done”, will be made available at id’s Quakecon event, taking place from July 31 to August 2.
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