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MMO PC News by Robert Purchese

5 August, 2008

Id Software bossman John Carmack has said he turned down offers to produce a Quake MMO.

The company was approached with several "good money" offers, he told Shacknews, but "id has no interest in MMO development".

We talked to John Carmack recently, you may have noticed - we did try to tell you - and he said he was "going to be really in the thick of the evolutionary stew" just developing free-to-play online game Quake Live.

Pop over to our full interview with John Carmack to see what he things about Apple, console shooters and DLC.

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Erinan
05/08/08 @ 14:38
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Geez, stop making MMOs with every possible franchise.
jiveguy
05/08/08 @ 14:42
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I predict within in a year or two the quote "we think now the time is right for a quake MMO" will spout out of an id mouth.
kestral
05/08/08 @ 14:51
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Instead he's going to make a John Carmack MMO where you can play a videogame developer and collect ferrari's? ;)
asphaltcowboy
05/08/08 @ 14:54
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How the hell would a Quake MMO even work properly! Good going John, it's a bad idea! As Erinan says, you can't just take a successful genre and turn it into an MMO!
andywilkie35
05/08/08 @ 14:57
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Erinan, I agree. Next we'll be hearing about a Custer's Revenge MMO!
Canyarion
05/08/08 @ 15:05
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Tetris MMO plzx!

Btw there's a typo in the text: things should be thinks. Unless it's the newest slang that I'm not aware of...
squarejawhero
05/08/08 @ 15:12
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Planetside 2 please.
Razz
05/08/08 @ 15:19
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"Pop over to our full interview with John Carmack to see what he things about Apple..."

:D
Ranger101
05/08/08 @ 15:40
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"Instead he's going to make a John Carmack MMO where you can play a videogame developer and collect ferrari's? ;) "


you mean John Romero. Then, after you get the Ferrari, you can go meet a Romanian chick on a web forum, then fly out to Romania and marry her after you've only met her in person for 3 days.
Tzetrik
05/08/08 @ 16:25
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NOMORE CARMACK NEWS PLZ KTHX
bonker
05/08/08 @ 18:31
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Don't you need some form of story/plot/context/world or summat to do a MMO?

Would a Quake MMO involve people fighting over, er, shades of brown, or something?

Or does Quake have some of the above and I'm just blissfully unaware given my abhorrence of FPS?
Kostabi
05/08/08 @ 19:14
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I'd quite like a Quake RPG. There's some untapped goodness to be had with the Strogg.

Plus RPGs tend to have more enemies and more enemies means a high chance of the shamblers coming back.
peak_performance
05/08/08 @ 22:05
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Quake MMO? Get that shit out of here!
Flaptastic
06/08/08 @ 04:52
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Carmack also has an aversion to making Id into a large studio.
kangarootoo
06/08/08 @ 08:44
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Holy crap EG. I'm, not usually one to complain about the way you glue together your site, but there is barely enough here to form a headline, let alone an article of its own.

What next? A series of four articles...

John Carmack says "The rain".
John Carmack says "In spain".
John Carmack says "Falls mainly".
John Carmack says "On the plain".

Hmmmm?!?
kangarootoo
06/08/08 @ 08:45
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On the subject at hand, mmos are hugely risky places to put your money. I wouldn't invest in one and, given the success iD have had with their previous line of games, I'm not the slightest bit surprised JC has no interest in firing his money out of that particular cannon.
Macross
06/08/08 @ 10:22
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MMM yeah planetside 2 would be ace. FPS MMO actually was quite alot of fun. Dunno about quake though simply because its not really the game as it where.

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