John Cash Leaves id Software for Blizzard

Jacek Fedorynski writes "John Cash has left id Software to work on a yet unannounced project at Blizzard. Here's Graeme Devine's .plan update on the subject."

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New Game

[Datafage]

3 to 1 says Blizzard South's second team is working on a massively multiplayer game. It is known that they are working on a completely new franchise, not a sequel, and the master of network coding being hired would suggest that they want a LOT of people at once. I only hope its better than the MMORGPGs that are out now...

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The conspiracy deepens

[Quintin Stone]

• One must admit, however, that the whole John thing is a little strange. John Romero, John Cash, John Carmack. Does that mean during the early days of id, all three people in the company were named John?

Even stranger still... has anyone else realized that all three of those people were issued U.S. social security numbers the day after Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast in 1938? A little digging reveals that the original staff list of Id Software included such unlikely monikers as "John Bigbootey" (pronounced 'big-boo-tay') and "John Smallberries", just to name a few. That's a lot of Johns.

I, for one, am a little suspicious of the true nature and origin of this particular game company. My Jamaican friends paint a darker picture of Id than most people are aware. If only a fraction of what they suggest is true....