Willits: Doom 4's 2008 Announcement was a Ploy to get Resumes

[Marnetmar]

http://www.dailyjoypad.co.uk/?p=22633

And what of id’s other major project, Doom 4? Willits revealed that at the time of the game’s 2008 announcement, only one person was working on Doom 4. Apparently, the game’s ultra-early was all a ploy to get resumes:

Willits: We had to say that we were hiring folks [for Doom 4], so we had a long internal debate and we were like “why don’t we just tell people?” So we said we were hiring, but at that point we only had one guy working on it. But it was the best way to get resumes, because everybody wants to work on a Doom game.

So Rage will be available this Tuesday, Doom 4 is in the works for some time after and Rage 2 will come out in the far future… hopefully.

[kristus]

So telling the truth is a ploy now?

[DoomUK]

So? That was three years ago when it was just announced. It's not like they said it was in production just to get people interested in jobs.

[TheEndOfUs]

" ...at the time of the game’s 2008 announcement, only one person was working on Doom 4"

Wasnt this Kevin Cloud? I believe the Doom 4 team is run by him.

[AirRaid]

Interesting little tidbit but as Kristus and DoomUK said.. it doesn't really mean anything.

[Koko Ricky]

So, basically...shortly after Doom 4 began development, id said, "Hey, Doom 4 is in development" and hired people. Fucking shocking.

[Bucket]

THOSE BASTARDS!

[DeathevokatioN]

Scandal of the century.

[Koko Ricky]

Anymore jokes on how not-news-at-all this was?

[Johnatone]

Thank you Nancy Grace.