Id Designer Let Go

American McGee, one of the designers at id Software, has apparently been fired from the company. The only information available was in a recent plan file update by id's John Carmack. His statement follows:

"American McGee has been let go from id. His past contributions include work in three of the all-time great games (DOOM 2, Quake, Quake II), but we were not seeing what we wanted."

GameSpot News asked Barrett Alexander, id's spokesperson, about the situation and what prompted id to fire McGee. Alexander responded, "Carmack summed the whole thing up by saying we were not seeing what we wanted. That is the official statement. I cannot speak on behalf of the owners on an issue such as this, but apparently his creative talent had veered from the path of id's."