John Carmack says he provided id Software program a $1 million gross sales assure to permit Workforce Beef to promote its VR ports on the official Quest retailer.
Workforce Beef has ported a variety of traditional PC gaming titles to standalone VR, together with Doom, Doom 3, Return to Citadel Wolfenstein, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D, and the Star Wars Jedi Knight sequence. At present, these ports require buying the unique video games on PC after which utilizing SideQuest to put in them onto your Quest, with the addition of Workforce Beef’s modified code.
In a thread on X in regards to the modding workforce’s Quake 3 VR port, a fan tagged the previous Oculus CTO and requested him to make the port “canon”. Carmack was a co-founder of id Software program, and the lead programmer for Quake 3. However id Software program was bought to ZeniMax in 2009, and ZeniMax was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. Thus, Carmack now not controls the IP.
I attempted — we had a dialog with the powers that be at Id Software program, and I even provided to personally assure one million {dollars} in gross sales if they might permit Workforce Beef to promote full variations of the traditional titles formally on the shop. I had some hope, however that was nonetheless too…
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 10, 2025
Carmack responded by saying he “tried”, and had a dialog with “the powers that be at Id Software program”. He says he provided to “personally guarentee one million {dollars} in gross sales” to permit Workforce Beef to promote its ports on Quest’s official retailer. However the implication is that his provide was rejected.
“I had some hope, however that was nonetheless too small potatoes to make something occur in a Microsoft firm,” Carmack writes.
Simply over a 12 months in the past, Carmack shared that he “received folks at id Software program taking part in the VR ports”, and that he was “hopeful” on the time. Nevertheless it looks like even this and his monetary provide weren’t sufficient to make it occur.
