Everything I know about Zenimax leads me to believe they are the absolute worst.

Zenimax was owned and operated entirely by m̶i̶c̶e̶, i mean lawyers.

The founder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Altman was connected to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_... From which he was banned from the banking industry when the bank was caught laundering money for drug cartels and the cia.

I learned today that we need a “Wolf of Wolfenstein” movie.

I would see that movie in a heartbeat.

amazing title! haha

And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.

The tensions go all the way back to the post-Doom (1) era. Carmack wasn't blameless either. Here's a fun war story from Sandy Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo .

So they’re kinda like the Oracle of gaming :)

Everyone I know who works at Oracle seems to love it there. IME it's the people on the other end of the contract who tend to despise Oracle.

Yeah this is a curious dichotomy. Universally hated from the outside but beloved from the inside. It does seem perhaps a little cult like though, the median tenure seems incredibly long - people join and _never_ leave.

If they didn't love it there, wouldn't they leave? In this market, it's relatively easy to do so.

Work conditions and business practices aren’t the same things.

seems

Yeah, but Oracle is much better at it. If Zenimax really wants to compete with them, they need to be sending license auditors into my house to count the number of occupants as potential users and send me a bill for their use of &/or gaining of enjoyment through watching me play their games.

Name sounds like some prescription drug.