Bethesda to Publish id's Rage

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• http://www.bethsoft.com/eng/news/pressrelease_121509.html RAGE will be published by Bethesda Softworks... : Smythers

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  "In addition, Carmack revealed that while the studio had "early offers" for the Rage publishing rights, t... : Angrakhan
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    Hmm, that was a deal signed with EA though, right? I wonder if they had to give money back and how diffi... : Tech T
    • I'm sure most of the negotiation was between EA and Bethesda. : molaughlen
    • I have to imagine that EA probably was given the money back plus an interest payment or a cut of the prof... : snowwolf
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  No, they're not. id is entirely owned by Zenimax now. All id employees are Zenimax employees. http://... : zipzaprap
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    Yes, but I think some id employees are co-owners in Zenimax : markusarv
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      Really? Such a move would restore some faith in id's decision to pretty much hand over the company. An... : CurbDog
      • JC surely is one of them : anal justice
      • http://www.zenimax.com/bod.htm http://www.zenimax.com/management.htm : Smythers

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  Here here! But it probably will. : ajvitaly
  • We can hope. : steauengeglase
  • Only doing this because I got the "here, here!" bomb dropped on me a couple days ago. http://en.wikipe... : DewFuel
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  I highly doubt it since Rage has been running on OSX since near the beginning. : ion_pulse
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    So did Halo... : Angrakhan
    • before they rewrote the entire game to only run on the xbox... : datoo

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• Please try to think first before posting. : MechBFP
• lol what? : eeeealmo
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  Dude.. the publisher is not the same company that thought up the concept and developed the software. Your... : madsoups
  • So you're telling me the publisher of a title has nothing to do with the finished product? Guess that ... : tehboosh
  • That's a bad analogy, since the "corner store" already exists in this case (GameStop or Steam), and just : garrarg
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  They also made Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Also, id is developing Rage. Bethesda is a publisher. : Sturm08
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    Fallout 3 and Oblivion are fucking buggy. When a game is buggy at release, the publisher is just as much ... : code-e255
    • I played hundreds of hours of both and had relatively smooth experiences. I played the console version, w... : Sturm08
    • And yes, if the publisher offered QA support that can be held against them. But ultimately, it was the p... : Sturm08
    • yup, i can play neither on my pc because of a bug beth refuses to fix. Hell they wont even acknowledge it... : technotica
    • Yeah they really don't seem to care too much about post-release support for the PC platform. : datoo
  • If Id's last two produced games are anything to go buy, this could be horrendous! : Mr Milquetoast
• Oh dear. : Mr.Finkster
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  Hey, the publisher calls the shots IMA JUST SAYIN! : tehboosh
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    The publisher has nothing to do with the content of the game IMA JUS SAYIN : MOB712
    • That's not true at all. The publisher is generally funding the game, and when they control the money they... : datoo
  • Idiot. : MechBFP
  • Hahaha. Wait, you're not joking? : Skrynkelberg
  • ahahahaha : headbone
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  Looking at the list of games that Bethesda has published i can only find one good game: Call of Cthulhu: : swimteampie
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    No Fallout 3? : steauengeglase
    • Not everyone likes it. : mobab
  • CoC great game. Bethesda didn't even fund the porting of it to PC. 1 guy stay on after Headfirst clos... : Xulu
• Sweet mother of god, never reproduce so future generations do not have to suffer like we do. : Omega Blue
• Both of these games are steamy piles. : x-eyd|mary

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• Agreed. : Arcanum
• Yeah, I remember seeing the trailer at QuakeCon with the "EA" logo, and I was thinking to myself, "Umm, o... : the archvile

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  I'll just go rustle some of those up for you. : Alice O'Connor
  • LoL. : etherealrhythm
  • whats taking you so long !!! i think you're lying, im going away : hanged_man
• Yeah, I can't wait to see some proper gameplay vids for this. What we need next is a nice, 10-15 minute d... : etherealrhythm

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  doh read the article then post I guess : Frush81
  • why bother? If you skip the article you can get to "looking smart" that much faster : MamiyaOtaru

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• This id thing seems entirely outside of EA's control. id got bought out, which I'm not sure anyone saw co... : Sturm08
• One of those is now owned/a part of a competing publisher and Valve is probably angling to self-publish. ... : kungfusquirrel