And how many of those have been active in 2016..

http://steamcharts.com/app/282440

Quake is more alive right now then i have seen in the past 2.5 years, can find full servers for multiple game modes most afternoon and evenings.

Dedicated Casual player right here

lol is good propoganda but is not true. you see opposite on steam discussion post

game is alive yes but not more alive.

Simply because of regional differences, and the times of day those people are looking.

Oh, and the number of people that don't understand how to use tags in a server browser, or even look at which filters are applied.

Quake Live is very populated with new players.

Last two weeks 30.000 active users and its growing. That are some good news. So steam switch really did the good job.

Dead in NA.
2 FFA servers 40 people
CA servers. maybe 100 people
1 FT server 10 people

duel is dead
tdm is dead
ctf is dead

I agree with this in regards to NA. I take it the EU is very active in comparison? Quakelive too me is dead as fuck over here.

Also, what are these stats then? http://steamcharts.com/app/282440

TLDR: I certainly wouldn't consider NA to be active, but your post is a little melodramatic.

If we're going to mention a 10 people playing freeze tag it's fair to say that there are 10 people dueling as well. TDM and CTF matches are becoming more rare these days, but what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that 99% of TDM and CTF games are pickups. People that join the servers are always so offended that they aren't allowed to play, and I think a lot of them figure the games are private. However the pickup games are open to the public and people can add up by joining #natdm.ql and #nactf.ql respectively. In fact the CTF community just held a draft cup this past weekend and we were able to get nine teams (36 players) involved. One of the reasons many people think there aren't any players is they open up the server browser, don't see anything, and log off. It's a vicious cycle =)

Outside of a couple FFA and Clan Arena servers there is barely any activity for QL in NA.

I blame iD software for riding a games success for 16 years. And not having a team that is competent enough to make a new arena FPS that could help revive the genre.

Don't forget to blame the players too =)

... but nah I feel you

the problem with that is you are adding a completely annoying requirement just to be able to play a video game. you are literally requiring them to sign into an IRC service, download and install more software, go through instructions to setup an account or use a webchat and learn how to use the chat service and figure out how to get into matches that nobody's even going to pick them for. IRC killed TDM in NA and anyone who denies that is lying to themselves. #natdm.ql and #nactf.ql are to blame for the inactivity.

additionally lets say someone does get into the IRC and signs up to play a standard freaking match that doesnt matter to anybody at all, once they get in they are required to join a voice server because you guys require that for some reason, so now that player has to download and install MORE software and learn how to use it

all of that bullshit instead of hitting F3

Ya it's like being forced to log in with a user name and password. All the popular games don't .... oh wait.

Yep not gonna argue this one.


Higgs,.

No need to reply, IRC as a game finding medium has already been debunked severely: here

Heh those channels aren't to blame. Instead of a limited community playing classic TDM/CTF, without them, you'd simply have nobody at all.

murican dream is kill

no need for "dead game" slander

this is what i call journalism

with a peak of 1k daily it's fair to call it dead.

That is very much a subjective opinion to say.

... if 1000 people noticed someone or something everyday, i would say that thing exist, just saying in an objective way. Is that something showing popularity is a different thing, based on news stats, it is on the rise. Saying that, that popularity rise is nothing, compared to other popular games.. maybe if we look how long a game was/is getting played from the time of its release (17 years) i would say quake is an evergreen and what if 1000 players will still play it after another 17 years? i would say it is beyond a fucking success story and it becomes a legend ;)

based on new stats, it is on the rise?

so steam stats are lying? it say it is down 48%.

i think i meant owners, i forgot what numbers i was looking when i wrote this.

ok, but with 800k more player came 800k + 45 less player as true playercount is down. many download yes but most uninstall or quit playing as number show. but it is good that people still download and at least try, is sad they dont stay.

If granted, I will be one of these 1000 players in 17 years.
Still running into the 'Server is full' message more than often :-)

Are these figures inaccurate? http://steamcharts.com/app/282440 ? Anyone know?

those figures are accurate. There you can see the daily peak of players (most players online at the same time), just like on steamspy under "Peak concurrent players yesterday: 1,093"

You need to make an account to see geographical spread, so ill save you the time



Out of countries listed:
out of the players who played in last 2 weeks EU has 54% and probably the majority of those 12.5% assigned to other.
So
EU = roughly 65% of quake population
NA = 24% of quake population (USA + Canada + Mexico)

Also it says people form Portugal make for 0.0% in the last two weeks. They dont even count Ins as a person :P

Or d3mon.

Half percent right here !

There are some really weird stats:

QUAKELIVE
Players in the last 2 weeks: 30,098 ± 4,017 (1.17%)
Players total: 1,333,432 ± 26,682 (51.69%)

DOTA
Players in the last 2 weeks: 9,836,964 ± 71,375 (15.3%)
Players total: 64,278,580 ± 163,356 (100%)

CS
Players in the last 2 weeks: 8,471,746 ± 66,402 (41.68%)
Players total: 19,614,436 ± 98,975 (96.5%)

GTA5
Players in the last 2 weeks: 1,332,588 ± 26,674 (32.11%)
Players total: 4,055,710 ± 46,310 (97.73%)

FALLOUT4
Players in the last 2 weeks: 872,687 ± 21,603 (29.18%)
Players total: 2,929,726 ± 39,439 (97.97%)

FOOTBALL MANAGER
Players in the last 2 weeks: 495,343 ± 16,286 (64.58%)
Players total: 757,923 ± 20,137 (98.81%)


Only ql has a very low stat for players in the last 2 weeks (1% of total players) compared to other games (15%, 30%, 40%).
Maybe the total players is the total accounts registered through quakelive.com site over the years and imported over steam.
I seriously doubt that over 1million people played ql on steam for at least 6 minutes.

i've been looking at Steam stats in the Steam client under Store menu for the past few days. And I noticed out of 100 games that are listed there the bottom one (last) usually has about 1,2k-1,5k current players with a peak of about 2,5k.
Not once did I see Quake Live on that list which means that QL had about 1k of players or possibly even less otherwise it would be listed.
About the Players, 1 million is possible imo since these stats are from the launch of QL on Steam and that was like almost 2 years ago. But Steamspy admits it could be false at some point, either dead accounts or multiple accounts like some cheaters create.

not one million

1/2 uninstall
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads...40x640.jpg

then yes many multiple alias is true

When ql launched on steam it had 6k peak players for almost a week. And that would be even higher if servers could have handled it. The total players was inflated at steam launch when everyone tried it

I would like to see the "Players in the last 24h" stat. That would be interesting. I estimate it around 5-6k.

Is it really surprising to see that F2P games (QL and Dota 2) are so much lower? If you want some meaningful results you should compare them with other F2P games and not just from the most popular on Steam (which QL isn't).

EDIT : Just to clarify, I know that QL isn't F2P anymore but it's pretty important for the statistics you're using since an extremely large proportion of the amount of players computed there didn't pay for the game (got it and played while it was F2P). QL is probably still gonna be low, but at least you'll be comparing apples to apples.

more bothered about how many sad people there are in the world willing to play DOTA

This is a more realistic overview: http://qlstats.net/players

64000 players played at least once on a ranked server.

300ppl average per month :( i bet angry birds seasons haff larger numbers

You'd be an idiot to think any other way considering the market angry birds appeals to, number of compatible devices, that it's not a multiplayer game in need of local servers, that it's F2P with pressure to in game payments etc etc etc

edit : it has the 100,000,000 - 500,000,000 installs tag on Android, and over 1 million 5 star reviews..

Maybe not compare premium apples to chocolate coated kiddy crack ?

Angry birds arena ;)

Any time I've thought about playing Quake again, the dead community prevents me. Not really interesting when there is literally a handful of players on the West Coast. Besides the fact the game is old as heck, I would still get some enjoyment I think if it actually had a community to speak of.

So many other games out there that actually has a vibrant player base.

Just my opinion.

Do you think there is anything that could get back people's interest? More tournaments, events, leagues? Or there's no helping it?

The only thing that gets back people's interest is other people.

you are serious? you do realize is 7 years later yes? cannot repair. many pro player do not play this game anymore. only can wait for dom now and hope it bring player

Skins, ingame rating, tournaments and matchmaking would revive the game for sure. There's no interest from the developer to do all that so its not gonna happen

I don't get why size of community dictates your enjoyment. I doubt professional football players get bored of playing football because there's only 32 professional teams. If the people playing are enjoyable to play with and competition is good why does the amount of them matter so much?

You could play the exact same game in 1998 or in 2016, but without the 1998's community and activity the game won't be nowhere near the same, nor as fun. A public online match with the same guy over and over again is not comparable to a LAN.

Plus Q3 got boring as a game to most people already, that while not being attractive to newcomers.The lack of a popular and original successor is the main reason why there's not a great community anymore, and why the Arena FPS subgenre is dead (besides the Quakecon week).

Size matters to little girls.

yeah the west coast is basically the arsehole of the "active" fps community. hope you like playing the same 5 people or are happy to suffer a 100ping

hopefully we can get these new players to become new community members

they will keep yakumo busy i think. most new player are not happy on steam