Carmack also expressed regret at kicking Romero out.
Excellent and concise post overall. This was the one detail I wasn't aware of.
He also indirectly says the reason they didn't use the real Doom and Doom 2 soundtracks on the Playstation version is because id were being a bunch of niggers and didn't want to pay Bobby a reasonable amount for his music.
There were some other things like that, the contract he had with 3DRealms for the music he did for Duke Nukem 3D was for just the PC version, and this wasn't renewed for the Playstation and Saturn ports, which is why his tracks are replaced with new ones (while Lee Jackson's tracks get remixed). Much later, Bobby Prince sued Gearbox when they went ahead and used his music for the 20th Anniversary Edition without negotiating with him again, which was eventually settled.
Presumably he worked out some other deal with iD Software, or they continuously come to a workable agreement, as his music is in all kinds of other ports. He's claimed he was skittish about the exact legality of the music before given how closely it imitates recognizable rock music in many places, telling a story about how he'd do the music like they wanted if they took all legal responsibility. Who knows for sure.
Also for context, this accusation came from somebody that once worked as a prostitute, that likes watching Cartel beheading videos, that is a former (maybe current?) alcoholic, that has received an IP ban on twitch for convincing kids to fry their electronics on stream, and that watches videos of people eating rotten animal carcasses in the woods with glee. This is also somebody that wished a guy would kill himself just so she could keep his xbox.
I'm wondering what you have to gain by not just telling us who this disaster of a person is, they sound like a perfect subject matter for this website.
but I was trying to refer more so to people that hate it because it's more popular than anything they make
Didn't seem like my kind of thing overall, so I mostly ignored it. From the glances I've gotten, it seems like it's genuinely well crafted, so I see the appeal that way, even if the plot which people were oohing and aahing about doesn't seem that different from Gone Home. Again though, with otherwise good design and actual gameplay, things which Gone Home had none of.
I saw people bring up Thatcher's Techbase as a much more egregious example, because it got lots of journalist attention while being completely unremarkable (even kind of bad) in design. I get people being salty over that one just because how little effort went into it compared to lots of other things.
In "Necromancy is the key" sense.