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Andrew Welch / el Presidente / Ambrosia Software, Inc.
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Is the answer to this question 'no'?
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Big deal, not my style of game.

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Thats a surprise, forge doesnt like stuff with killing.

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Is the answer to this question 'no'?
Chaos to the enemies of the Azdgari

I always thought that id Software wasn't exactly the smartest company in the world... But discontinuing a product for one of the OSs' that it's next game will be for? That is probably the most idiotic, moronic, dumbest, most stupid thing that I've ever seen a software company do.

PS-It's next game will be for the Mac too; it was previewed at MacWorld on a G4 with an NVidia GeForce 3. Doom III.

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I must agree with forge. I would hope computer game companies would stop being obsessed with first peron shooters at SOME point... Not only that, I don't agree with the concept of violence and killing as entertainment, but the guy at www.macgamer.com already said it better than me.

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This is not id Software's decision -- it is Activision's decision. id wrote Quake, but they don't publish it -- Activision handles that.

Don't blame id.


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Andrew Welch / el Presidente / Ambrosia Software, Inc.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

I can see the appeal of first person shooters and the whole bloody death stuff... but, I don't know why, but that mindless same old same old crap doesn't appeal to me. But then again, I'm a D2 nut, so I'm not one to talk

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My point exactly.

And I can understand Diablo 2 (that is what you meant, isn't it?) since it's rediculously addictive. Nevertheless, I pulled myself away from the demo...

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I always did have the impression that Activision was one of those stupid-about-Mac-market publishers worthy of my dislike.

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I'm not sure if I understand. This is a game that is already our for Mac and has been for quite a while, right? If so, it seems like the hardest part (developing the game for Mac) is over, and they've basically just decided to stop mass-producing the CDs and shipping them to stores.

It's a very strange decision. The only reason I can think of is maybe Q3A is not selling well anymore.

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"I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox

Also, since a few people mentioned that the next id game would be available for Mac, I seem to remember John Carmack saying that future id games would be produced ONLY for OS X and no previous MacOS.

What does everyone think of that? For me, it's fine. I like OS X and use it. But I don't play computer games much, so it wouldn't matter anyway.

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"I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox