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Cypher1980 on 06 February 2009
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MikeB said:

It's IMO wise to treat comments from people like Carmack and Gabe with a bucketload of salt.

Gabe is just a Microsoft-era millionaire and behaves as such in support of Microsoft. Valve may not have much technical knowhow amongst its team as they always relied heavily on 3rd party middleware game engines to base their games on.

Carmack has been proven to spout propaganda for Microsoft as well. He even once claimed Doom couldn't be done on the Amiga, but of course as soon as the source code was made available a few days later Doom ran on older Amigas than same age top PCs could.

Oh come on Mike B

I now you are Pro Sony but to start parading your partisan beliefs as fact is taking everything a little too far.

Valve are some of the most creative talents in the industry and surely deserve at least grudging respect.

Likewise Carmack is one of the most supportive and technically accomplished coders out there. He even releases old game engines as open source to let fledgling devs cut their teeth.

So Gabe sometimes ruffles everyones feathers with harsh words. Its his perogative. He's the one with millions in the Bank. He's the one who controls his companies direction and pays the bills.