QuakeCon id Software Keynote Coverage

ruiner5000 writes "If you are not at lucky enough to be at this year's QuakeCon, then you might be wondering what John Carmack and crew are up to. Well, John is a father of a baby boy as of yesterday, so he was not here for his traditional talk on what id is up to. Instead, he appeared on pre-recorded video, followed by normal Q and A session with other id personnel. AMDZone has full coverage of the id keynote, including some pics for your enjoyment. If you want to know about the next engine, the Xbox, OS X, and Linux ports, id's standing on piracy, or Carmack's vision of game engines for movie rendering, then give it a read." S!: There's also continuing QuakeCon coverage over at GameSpy, including a long interview with Todd Hollenshead.

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[Pentagram]

id's standing on piracy
It sucks. Next game's international launch won't lag behind US launch.

If id/Activision want to discourage copying, they're going the wrong way about it:

* The aforementioned staggered release dates (it doesn't matter if it takes longer to ship/manufacture in various countries; delay all copies till it's ready!)

* Making the official version less useable than cracked versions, by:
- Requiring a registration key (and telling you to look in the wrong place for it)
- Requiring the CD to be in the drive before playing
- Refusing to install if a copy of cloneCD etc. is present (and giving an error message about "DVD emulation"??) - this really pissed me off; it's not id's business what else I have on my machine

* Etc.

And another thing that annoyed me was the installer trying to access the internet (blocked by my firewall) without asking (auto-registration? how rude...)

It's a man, baby

[Dmala]

Errr...no. Adrian Carmack is a dude, and he's been with id since the beginning. The last name is a coincidence, he's not related (and definitely not married) to John.