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Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC was "brutal" with up to 17-hour days

"You spend so much of your energy and sacrifice a bunch of things, and then they lay you off.

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"You spend so much of your energy and sacrifice a bunch of things, and then they lay you off." Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, an expansion-sized DLC, was released in July, in the same week Microsoft announced its sweeping 3,200 staff layoffs . The layoffs impacted almost the entirety of the Xbox studio portfolio - including Doom maker id Software.

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