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Name: Disrepute
Location: London
Posts: 1444
Location: London
Posts: 1444
LoL has shown the world that team games are where it's at, but hey we didn't even need that. The intelligent few among us have been saying for maybe a decade or more that focusing on duel was a mistake.
Nobody plays duel. It kills the community. No community means no players. No players means no audience. No audience means no sponsors. No sponsors means no money. No money means no events. No events means no interest. No interest means no further development.
Sure we all enjoy the show-piece of duel. Two of the best players fighting it out so we can name a BEST INDIVIDUAL PLAYER. But in reality it’s just like the ballon d'or in football. It's vanity.
So Fatal1ty got rich. Good for him. But Quake is dead.
Having a shitty stream every weekend showcasing the same 20 players will not build a game. It will KILL IT. We all mocked painkiller because nobody wanted to play it. But did anybody really think why? Was it really because it was a buggy game? No. It was because it was all focused on duel. 90% of people do not want to play duel.
Most people have an ability to be social. Most want to play with friends. Most don't want the insane pressure of everything being down to them.
Think of every arena shooter that has been made off the back of Quake. They all focus on duel and they all FAIL. Reflex will fail too.
Please all you duel supporters WAKE UP that YOU have killed quake. The major mistake id made was to listen to the community and focus on duel. Quake SHOULD BE A TEAM FOCUSED GAME. Just like LoL or CSGO are that are now killing it once a broader audience has access to watch.
I hate every one of you duel only supporters that killed my game.
Duel should actually be removed completely and the development team for the next quake should focus around a single team mode. Something with an objective that sets a focus on the viewpoint.
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Edited by Lam at 08:46 CST, 19 January 2015 - 412346 Hits
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Stay salty m8.
Well, then we're on the same page.
I'm assuming Disrepute just awoke from a particularly unsettling lucid dream where zoot was laughing at him, bucktoothed and gums glistening, while urinating on him from a great height, with slowmo replays of the golden shower trickling down his face, mixing with his tears. Sat upright in bed, soaked in cold sweat, suddenly a rush of nostalgia and spite came flooding back to him, reminding him all too bitterly of his shattered dreams which he was convinced he had at last overcome. The dreams where he made it big in eSports. The dreams where he was a household name. The dreams where he was travelling the world from TDM event to TDM event, living the big life of gaming celebrities. Hookers, coke, fancy hotels, business class flights. The dream where he was known as the saviour of Quake. The dream where he didn't need to work 40 hours a week plus overtime to pay the bills, get his girl preggers, get old and bitter, and rot away into oblivion like billions of other plebs. It was all coming back to haunt him now. He can almost still taste the urine even while wide awake. This oh-so-unsavoury reminder of his crushed illusions resulted in this spontaneous outburst where he needs to make sure that at least some people on that scum-ridden site known as ESR still haven't completely forgotten about the golden days where he was King of the Castle. Those days of glory, where sometimes even dozens of people would laugh heartily at even the most casual of mundane anecdotes between maps. Those days when he felt alive. Before the zootening. Oh, the dreaded, ghastly zootening. We must forgive and forget id software's incompetence. ZOOT IS THE TRUE EVIL THAT HAS KILLED QUAKE. THAT VILE WRETCHED SPAWN OF HELL, THAT PISS-SHOWERING SCUM OF THE EARTH, THAT DREADED ABOMINATION THAT HATH BROUGHT DOWN UPON OUR BELOVED GAME A DESTRUCTION AND DEVASTATION THE LIKES OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEFORE WITNESSED. IT IS HE AND HIS LEGION OF GODLESS HEATHENS, THOSE DESPICABLE DEMONS WHO MUST BE CAST FORTH ONCE MORE INTO THE PISS-LAKES OF HELLFIRE FROM WHENCE THEY CAME, WHERE THEY SHOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF TDM QUAKE AGAIN. DO YOU HEAR ME ZOOT? THAT WAS MINE! THAT HEAVEN WAS MINE! THIS HELL? THIS HELL IS YOURS ZOOT! I WILL NEVER. FORGET. THIS!!!!!!!!
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