This story that several of the news pages linked (I first read it off of Blue) is simply too much to handle. I normally try to avoid the subject except in certain controlled forums as it just leads to frustration for everyone. However, I'd encourage anyone here who actually cares about getting some sort of honest reporting about this industry and our games to write this editor and point out the glaring problems in the article

id's Todd Hollenshead shows us the letter he wrote:

I'm sure you're getting a mountain of email from people angry about the number of factual inaccuracies in the story, so I'll just trust that you'll fix that tomorrow. I wanted to let you know that you can email me directly if you would like to fact check articles that discuss our games in the future.

And if this hasn't been made painfully clear to you already, Grossman's contention that Quake III Arena has been pulled from the market is no more accurate than any of his other assertions about id Software or our games. We're looking forward to an enormously successful launch of Quake III Arena later this year. You can see what we're working on for yourself at http://www.quake3arena.com.