{"id":1615899,"date":"2026-06-24T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pLdNj3HAK66NpZtuZWLZrB"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:39:33","slug":"john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says &#8216;Quake ruined id Software,&#8217; and for once John Romero doesn&#8217;t tell Sandy he&#8217;s wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Quake recently passed by\u2014June 22, 2026 was the day\u2014and of course there were acknowledgements, salutes, and celebrations a-plenty, as you&#8217;d expect for such a groundbreaking, influential, and enduring game. But it also got a couple of the driving forces behind it reflecting on those days rather more deeply, and as sometimes happens when youthful memories come to the surface, they got pretty deep into their <em>feelings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Quake co-designer Sandy Petersen, who joined id Software in 1993, got the ball rolling, writing bluntly on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SandyofCthulhu\/status\/2069592209645785294\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> that &#8220;Quake ruined id Software.&#8221; He said Quake &#8220;is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design,&#8221; and credited everyone on the development team for doing &#8220;a brilliant job, fulfilling tasks just right.&#8221; But, he added, the workload was intense, &#8220;and I think it broke us spiritually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-amazon-prime-day-pc-gaming-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We&#8217;re keeping track of all the Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Petersen then ran through a list of everyone who left id &#8220;within a couple years of finishing Quake,&#8221; including John Romero, Shawn Green, Dave Taylor, Mike Abrash, American McGee, and of course Petersen himself. All of them went on to have long and fruitful careers in game development, &#8220;so plainly we didn&#8217;t depart because of some kind of talent issue,&#8221; Petersen wrote. &#8220;We were all highly competent, just a little burnt out after the labor of Quake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Id Software was never the same after,&#8221; Petersen wrote. &#8220;In my opinion (only an opinion), the only other truly great game that id produced was Quake 3, and it was not at the level of the pre-Quake games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:85.29%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2Tw7yc5UZimBAUNCcdg8dV\" name=\"q1\" alt=\"Here is the toll it took. Within a couple years of finishing Quake, the following men left id Software: John Romero(!), Shawn Green, Dave Taylor, Mike Abrash, and American McGee. (Oh yes, and me.) Some of us were forced out, some left eagerly. But here's the thing - look at we who left. EVERY ONE of us went on to an incredible career in game development, so plainly we didn't depart because of some kind of talent issue. The idea is ridiculous. We were all highly competent, just a little burnt out after the labor of Quake. And if my naysayers want to say, \"Well Sandy, YOU should have clearly been ousted because you suck.\" Okay, but even John Romero was gone. Michael Abrash!! Id's workhorse, Dave Taylor. American! It wasn't just me. You don't think id Software suffered by losing John frigging Romero?!Id Software was never the same aftger. In my opinion (only an opinion), the only other truly great game that id produced was Quake 3, and it was not at the level of the pre-Quake games. 2\/3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"945\" height=\"806\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Sandy Peterson (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite clearly being a bit melancholy about the whole thing, Petersen said Quake was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; worth the cost it extracted from id: &#8220;Games are more important than game companies, and Quake is an iconic titan of the gaming world.&#8221; But, he added, &#8220;man alive it seems like the company could have had its act together better and kept that dream team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Petersen is pretty famous for having his recollections repeatedly (but respectfully) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/a-short-history-of-john-romero-wishing-sandy-petersen-well-before-nuking-his-doom-tweets-from-orbit-with-ruthless-precision\/\" target=\"_blank\">knifed by John Romero<\/a>, but in this instance his reminiscences were met with agreement, mostly, from the other John of the original id Software squad: Carmack. <\/p>\n<p>In response to Petersen&#8217;s missive, Carmack said Quake was &#8220;overly ambitious technically,&#8221; and that the studio &#8220;could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pushed everyone too hard,&#8221; Carmack <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ID_AA_Carmack\/status\/2069799283369345247\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I didn\u2019t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On all of the founders\u2019 shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy\/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carmack said he doesn&#8217;t think having elevated expectations for Quake level designers was a mistake (and credited Romero with setting that bar high right from the studio&#8217;s early days), but acknowledged that &#8220;we should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier.&#8221; But, he continued, &#8220;there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then, simply and directly, he apologized: &#8220;Sorry, Sandy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:975px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:160.92%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"SnCP7wUd5nUanuPTfVUDxV\" name=\"q2\" alt=\"There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.I pushed everyone too hard. I didn\u2019t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.On all of the founders\u2019 shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy\/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.One real problem that I don\u2019t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn\u2019t.Sorry, Sandy.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"975\" height=\"1569\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-1.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: John Carmack (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The dissolution of id Software under somewhat acrimonious circumstances has been well documented over the subsequent years: American McGee, for instance, was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/alice-creator-american-mcgee-says-he-was-inspired-by-a-valve-demo-he-saw-while-working-on-quake-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">fired by Carmack<\/a> for sub-par performance on Quake, although Petersen later suggested that McGee was actually done dirty by another employee. Petersen also pointed a finger at Carmack&#8217;s &#8220;intensity&#8221; in particular in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SandyofCthulhu\/status\/2069615773962932531\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, writing that Carmack &#8220;decided we all needed to be in the same big room together. He\u2019d read about this way of \u201cfocusing\u201d the team and it did. But we also had nowhere we could decompress or hide out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:53.54%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"icbZ7ksPjkUfj8YdFDgxeV\" name=\"q3\" alt=\"I think part of the problem might\u2019ve been that John Carmack\u2019s intensity combined decided we all needed to be in the same big room together. He\u2019d read about this way of \u201cfocusing\u201d the team and it did. But we also had nowhere we could decompress or hide out. To be clear, I myself NEVER had my own office at id. i was always in the open central space. But I think losing their offices affected Abrash, Taylor, Green, and Romero.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-2.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"945\" height=\"506\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-2.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Sandy Peterson (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for the <em>other<\/em> other John\u2014Romero\u2014to enter the convo with his own <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/romero\/status\/2069832437924765817\" target=\"_blank\">thoughts on the matter<\/a>, which aren&#8217;t too far removed from Carmack&#8217;s: He echoed the in-hindsight belief that they should have stuck with a Doom++ game while ironing out the fully-3D Quake engine, and that everyone at id was &#8220;pushing ourselves past what was reasonable because that was how id had always worked.&#8221; He also gave particular credit to McGee for being &#8220;really good&#8221; at building Quake levels, a notably pointed comment given how McGee&#8217;s time at id ended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a hundred things we could have done differently, but we did the best we could do at the time with what we knew. Having a media circus around us certainly didn\u2019t help,&#8221; Romero wrote. &#8220;id still goes on, and so does Wolf, Doom, and Quake. Maybe that was what we came together to do. That is more than enough for any game dev, any team, any lifetime really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:993px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:85.50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"NfUEKsKpFAu223TXQQMPkV\" name=\"q4\" alt=\"We were trying to make the next great leap, and none of us could really know at the beginning what that leap was or how long it would take. We were building the road while also building the car driving on it. No one had ever done anything like Quake before.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-3.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"993\" height=\"849\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-3.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: John Romero (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taken altogether, it&#8217;s a really interesting conversation about one of the most storied game studios in history. But I love a happy ending, and so what really lands for me is how it all wraps up: With an understanding that everyone was younger then, the world was a different place, and as Romero put it, <em>we did the best we could<\/em>. Following Carmack&#8217;s apology, Petersen said he didn&#8217;t blame him for how it all worked out and told Romero he &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SandyofCthulhu\/status\/2069837886921527493\" target=\"_blank\">did an incredible job<\/a>&#8221; on Quake, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/romero\/status\/2069839662894493912\" target=\"_blank\">Romero thanked Petersen<\/a> for getting them talking: &#8220;It really was a hell of a game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:138.10%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"bdkXdy6YVPgtdUa4xbdDmW\" name=\"q5\" alt=\"I don\u2019t blame you, John. You were so intense. And frankly your favorite relaxation seemed to be coding frantically so it\u2019s no wonder you didn\u2019t realize that others may appreciate a few breaks. It did result in a triumph of a game we can all be proud of. And frankly it\u2019s a little refreshing that the company caved because of developers instead of clueless managers. Let\u2019s hope the cautionary tale warns other small devs.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-4.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"945\" height=\"1305\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong-4.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Sandy Peterson (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-ORV41O\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/ORV41O.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"5db733bc-f0ff-47b8-9782-62fd3f9ab18d\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"5db733bc-f0ff-47b8-9782-62fd3f9ab18d\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 30th anniversary of Quake recently passed by\u2014June 22, 2026 was the day\u2014and of course there were acknowledgements, salutes, and celebrations a-plenty, as you&#8217;d expect for such a groundbreaking, influential, and enduring game. But it also got a couple of the driving forces behind it reflecting on those days rather more deeply, and as sometimes happens when youthful memories come to the surface, they got pretty deep into their feelings. Quake co-designer Sandy Petersen, who joined id Software in 1993, got the ball rolling, writing bluntly on X that &#8220;Quake ruined id Software.&#8221; He said Quake &#8220;is an amazing feat of art, programming, and design,&#8221; and credited everyone on the development team for doing &#8220;a brilliant job, fulfilling tasks just right.&#8221; But, he added, the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/john-carmack-apologizes-after-sandy-petersen-says-quake-ruined-id-software-and-for-once-john-romero-doesnt-tell-sandy-hes-wrong\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1615899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says &#039;Quake ruined id Software,&#039; 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