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> The game was a commercial success for id Software; with more than 3.5 million copies of the game were sold.

Wrong/Cheated. It was such a success that they had to sell the company - they sold ID-Software...

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It seemed to do well enough to slow the need to sale for five years or so.

Or maybe, just maybe, it was so successful of a company that another company bought it to share in the success.

They were building Rage at the time. I'm sure the budget for that game was like 5x that of D3. Shit runs late, cost blooms. Lots of 90's era twenty person shops had trouble dealing with increasing costs.

So, you are suggesting that id was sold to cover the costs of Rage?

Why are you referring to the process of selling the company as an opposite of financial success?

I can't say for Id Software, because I have no clue about their financials. But historically, people who run profitable companies do not want to sell them. They want to grow them so they can make even more money. These days startups which are "owned" by VC money, usually have to sell so the VCs can recover their investment.

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