John Carmack is suing ZeniMax
I bet that Zenimax will claim that due to the issues surrounding the Oculus case Carmack failed the covenants required to collect his 50% earn out mentioned in Carmack&#x27;s complaint.<p>EDIT - Another commentor posted the original complaint and this is exactly why Zenimax is not paying &quot;ZeniMax’s stated basis for its failure to comply with the Convertible Promissory Note is a series of allegations regarding claimed violations of Mr. Carmack’s Employment Agreement and ZeniMax’s alleged intellectual property rights.&quot;(1)<p>A jury of &quot;peers&quot; found Oculus at fault in several key areas in Zenimax&#x27;s last complaint, and Carmack was central in that story.<p>When Zenimax sued Oculus - the VR community responded with overwhelming support for Oculus, casting Zenimax as the greedy corporation trying to get a slice.<p>Zenimax&#x27;s original complaint - of which a Jury saw enough truth in to award $500m to Zenimax - is more or less as follows:<p>- Zenimax bought ID software for &gt;$100m on June 24, 2009.<p>- Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an earn-out &#x2F; golden-handcuffs agreement that ended in June of 2013.<p>- Carmack was enthralled with VR.<p>- Carmack found Palmer via an internet forum, reached out to get a rift to try.<p>- Carmack tinkered with the Rift, adding sensors, building calibration, etc. while on the clock &#x2F; using hardware from zenimax.<p>- Carmack brought a prototype of the Rift working on Doom 3 to E3 with him providing Oculus with their early press.<p>- Zenimax realized the extent to which Carmack was enabling Oculus and worked to negotiate equity with Brendan Iribe.<p>- Oculus sent Zenimax a proposal to discuss a partnership Sept 21, 2012 but never followed up &#x2F; followed through.<p>- Carmack quit Zenimax the day his contract was up in June 2013, joined Oculus as CTO a few months later and took his 5 best guys with him.<p>- FB bought Oculus March 2014, Zenmix got pissed and sued.<p>When Zenimax responds to this new complaint from Carmack it&#x27;s a foregone conclusion that they will re-raise this &quot;bad behavior&quot; and likely point to non-competitive clauses attached to the &quot;earn out&quot; as non-performing.<p>I love Carmack and his contributions to our world, I am concerned that Zenimax may out lawyer him.<p>PS - Fun fact - two of Zenimax&#x27;s board members are Cal Ripken, Jr. (hall of fame baseball player) and Robert S. Trump - brother to our current president.<p>EDIT - Changed first sentence for clarity of my point.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;341420632&#x2F;John-Carmack-vs-ZeniMax-Media#from_embed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;341420632&#x2F;John-Carmack-vs-Ze...</a>