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As part of a massive and very engaging interview with id Software's John Carmack and Tim Mustaine, Shacknews has discovered that the company has been toying around with the idea of iPhone DLC.
Obviously, there may or may not be a charge for this DLC. All that can be taken from this response is that the idea of DLC is one that the company is certainly interested in and a prospect that can be facilitated by the new iPhone update.
The full interview is three pages long and features a great look at id Software's present and future, the ZeniMax acquisition, development of iPhone games, and much more. Look for Doom Classic to arrive at around $5 and Doom Resurrection is priced at $9.99.
What's your take on iPhone DLC? Is that something you're considering for Resurrection?
Tom Mustaine: Yeah, we are absolutely. It won't be in the shipping version, we actually kind of got sideswiped by the 3.0 launch happening so quickly. But we actually have a version of the game that does cooperative multiplayer, so you can actually do peer-to-peer multiplayer, where you see two persons on the screen at the time, and maybe we'll actually have more than that, up to four players.
And it's a blast. You can play through the levels, they scale up, and you can compete for score and play cooperatively. And then also this game really fits well with downloadable content, so we're definitely looking at those with a future 3.0 update.
John Carmack: Yeah, we still really don't even know what the plan is going to be for the 2.0 to 3.0 transition in terms of using new features. We haven't checked into how the App store handles things. Can somebody accidentally download something they don't want in an upgrade? How fast is the market going to migrate over?
And unfortunately Apple is unlikely to give us any statistics of what's going to be a guess about when you want to start doing something 3.0-only on there. I've got the same problem with Doom Classic, where right now it plays on your 2.0 with Wi-fi multiplayer, and eventually we expect to do a 3.0 Bluetooth multiplayer and downloadable content on there. I'm still leaning on doing a 2.0 version first and a 3.0 version later.
Tom Mustaine: Yeah, we are absolutely. It won't be in the shipping version, we actually kind of got sideswiped by the 3.0 launch happening so quickly. But we actually have a version of the game that does cooperative multiplayer, so you can actually do peer-to-peer multiplayer, where you see two persons on the screen at the time, and maybe we'll actually have more than that, up to four players.
And it's a blast. You can play through the levels, they scale up, and you can compete for score and play cooperatively. And then also this game really fits well with downloadable content, so we're definitely looking at those with a future 3.0 update.
John Carmack: Yeah, we still really don't even know what the plan is going to be for the 2.0 to 3.0 transition in terms of using new features. We haven't checked into how the App store handles things. Can somebody accidentally download something they don't want in an upgrade? How fast is the market going to migrate over?
And unfortunately Apple is unlikely to give us any statistics of what's going to be a guess about when you want to start doing something 3.0-only on there. I've got the same problem with Doom Classic, where right now it plays on your 2.0 with Wi-fi multiplayer, and eventually we expect to do a 3.0 Bluetooth multiplayer and downloadable content on there. I'm still leaning on doing a 2.0 version first and a 3.0 version later.
Obviously, there may or may not be a charge for this DLC. All that can be taken from this response is that the idea of DLC is one that the company is certainly interested in and a prospect that can be facilitated by the new iPhone update.
The full interview is three pages long and features a great look at id Software's present and future, the ZeniMax acquisition, development of iPhone games, and much more. Look for Doom Classic to arrive at around $5 and Doom Resurrection is priced at $9.99.