Romero Responds

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John Romero being the good sport that he is took some time to respond to the criticism he went under for releasing a screenshot of his desktop of all things. It's pretty amazing how much time some people spent analyzing the thing. Oh btw, the IonStorm firewall prevents access to this page from their office, (I'm told due to the comments system, they dont want Ion employees posting stuff) so you won't really see any responses here. Here's what John had to say:

...I will accept the fact that all popular messageboards are negative. All of them. It's the reason they exist. But the fact that there's just so many highly negative posts about a game that i'm working on just boggles me. I'm just a game developer, like the thousands that are out there, working hard on making a game for you people. Sure, i'm also making it for myself to play and to support myself and my company, but i wouldn't be able to do that if it weren't for everyone out there in the world, thinking that the games that i make are fun. I'm just trying to make a fun game and it's been a pretty rough road with this one, but we're finally at the end. The next one will be an easier development cycle and i'll definitely be toning-down the PR machine on its development. I won't be giving out release dates next time.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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    January 21, 2000 2:28 AM

    Nah, they\'re afraid the employees will spill details like:

    \"Killcreek visits Romero for hours every morning, and he never seems to get anything done during that time.\"

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