DOOM'd! Quake god John Carmack lobs $22m sueball at ZeniMax Wizard programmer John Carmack is suing his former employer ZeniMax alleging $22.5m in unpaid stock options. Carmack, now chief technology officer of Facebook's Oculus VR, claims games developer Zenimax owes the money as part of the 2009 deal ZeniMax made to acquire Carmack's id Software, the studio behind Wolfenstein 3D, Doom …
From a report I read elsewhere, it seems that the due date for the share buy back hasnt even passed yet for Carmack's shares. Which means he's suing to try and get them to purchase them now, when they legally dont have to do any such thing until the due date comes around. Crazy!
If that report was right, then damn, Carmack SHOULD be smacked down for this in court. And hard.
Thats a season pass for a Zenimax game isn't it?
If they do pay out, JC should offer them some skins, concept art and extra skill points as a gesture of good will.
Seriously though, that amount is probably less than his options are actually worth.
Zenimax woukd probably have fucked him come the due date anyway.
I liked the guy.
From 1000 Hp super cars to a sounding rocket called The Stieg he was quite a hoot and how many wives know the way to their mans heart is a 5 axis CNC machine?
But he's lost the trade secrets case so he's y'know guilty of stealing stuff (and IIRC encouraging others to jump ship) from them. It would be strange if there wasn't a "no shares for you if try to steal our IP and/or staff" clause in the options contract. So no pudding for him.
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