@oXYnary At the 20 years of id panel the next day, they ( carmack, willits, cloud and hollenshead ) went on to say they plan to continue to do "multiplayer" correct and that there would be dedicated servers with id games. There was lots of applause...
Well, dedicated servers don't really work for a coop game. I wouldn't call it a conclusive shark jumping in RAGE's case... though since the whole Zenimax/id thing, the linux/mac business has been a back seat though