Id turned down Quake MMO offers

By Robert Purchese Published 5 August, 2008

Carmack has "no interest" in them.

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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Comments (16) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Erinan #1 4 years ago

    Geez, stop making MMOs with every possible franchise.

  • jiveguy #2 4 years ago

    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 #3 4 years ago

    Instead he's going to make a John Carmack MMO where you can play a videogame developer and collect ferrari's? ;)

  • asphaltcowboy #4 4 years ago

    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 #5 4 years ago

    Erinan, I agree. Next we'll be hearing about a Custer's Revenge MMO!

  • Canyarion #6 4 years ago

    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...

  • Razz #7 4 years ago

    "Pop over to our full interview with John Carmack to see what he things about Apple..."

    :D

  • Ranger101 #8 4 years ago

    "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 #9 4 years ago

    NOMORE CARMACK NEWS PLZ KTHX

  • bonker #10 4 years ago

    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 #11 4 years ago

    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 #12 4 years ago

    Quake MMO? Get that shit out of here!

  • Flaptastic #13 4 years ago

    Carmack also has an aversion to making Id into a large studio.

  • kangarootoo #14 4 years ago

    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 #15 4 years ago

    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 #16 4 years ago

    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.