14 DAY TRIAL // Bethesda has confirmed that the Doom reboot currently in development at id Software won't be showcased again until 2015, as apparently the studio still wants to work hard on the game before it is properly revealed to the world.
Bethesda and id Software organized the yearly QuakeCon event last week in Texas, and as a special treat to all attendants, the two companies brought forth a live gameplay demonstration of the new Doom game that's been in development for quite some time.
A lot of details were shared with fans, including some great single-player gameplay, but it seems that both Bethesda and id Software are reluctant to show off the new Doom to the world at least until next year.
Bethesda's Pete Hines has talked with PC Gamer and confirmed that the whole small exclusive reveal was a gesture of goodwill for fans of the studio and served to quell fears about the game's fate, after reports of bad conditions at id Software.
"I really wanted to put something out there that, in a strong way, said, 'id is working on something that we think is really cool'," Hines says. "And we wanted to show something to [id Software fans] that gives them the confidence that it is still a viable studio that's doing really cool stuff, that is making a game you want to play, and is treating Doom with the care and respect that you want."
Now, both Bethesda and id are going back to work and won't show off anything else until 2015, according to Hines, as the game still needs plenty of time to become something great.
"And now we're going to go away and go back to making the game, but to be able to counter other people talking about us and we're sort of just sitting here staying silent, or operating from this negative space of like, 'Oh, it got rebooted, oh it's in trouble.' All of that stuff just bothered the hell out of me."
Hines also emphasizes that Bethesda is listening closely to id about the game and that it has understood the studio's desire to make the QuakeCon showing an exclusive thing.
Had a trailer or a gameplay video been revealed to the world, id is sure that it would've been dissected frame-by-frame and that various problems would have been blown out of proportion.
As such, don't expect to hear more about Doom until at least next year.