missing link or something? "click to watch" and nothing happens .. =D

it opens a player :)

its this embedded:

http://stream.sk-gaming.com/video/d51e2168402e3f60/

Works for me! (Blocked javascript?)

in the end of the day...

but in the end of the day

yes but i mean, in the end of the day....

don't know, no msgs / symbols saying i'm blocking something .. will check settings! :)

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17466-1on1_w...f_Reichert

thanks ;)

quite nice interview. very interesting to watch. thanks for that, Carmac.

Offtopic: Long time ago (~1 year) I read an interview about you (or something similar) where you said something like "I don't know if I want to do the journalist-job for the rest of my life.... I'm working on something big which will have a significantly impact in the eSports-scene..."
I don't really remember it word-to-word, but you said something along those lines.

So are you still planning on chaning the eSport-world? :)

Same...

Carmac is back bitches!

tell a friend!

He says (ESL) that he doesn't support the game because there isn't a big enough following online, and that there aren't enough events for spectators to watch.

Now, that's a reasonable statement, except, he's in CONTROL of the amount of people online in it. ESL doesn't have anything to do with Quake, but if it DID, maybe we'd see more tournaments and more players. He has the power to change it, but won't.

Sure, the community is small, but would you rather see 10000 people play checkers, or 100 people play chess.

22 playing football (soccer)

we haven't been able to really support Quake because of the indexing of Quake 3 (we have to censor the name on the website) and the age rating of Quake 4 in Germany

I don't see how ralf (or anyone) controls the amount of people playing quake or any game online, there aren't hundreds of thousands of people playing CS because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars of prize money we have put into it - rather the opposite

Well, controlling a game like Quake, or UT, or any good DM game.

If there's no tournaments, novice players have no reason to play it and get raped. Instead of trying to get good at a game that has no tournaments, they can go be a ringer on a COD4 or CS team, and hopefully get lucky and be on a team.

You dont think we have had enough/big tournaments with PK, Q4 and UT3 ?
Considering the size of cs i am surprised that the cs community doesnt complain about 1on1 games, getting all the money.

well, It doesn't matter WHAT event/tournament is going on, CS is ALWAYS there.

because it has largest online audience - good clan brands - and a competitive scene.

If you would check other sites as esr (I know thats hard) you'd know.

I know it has a large audience and player base, but the person I replied to said he's surprised the CS players don't complain about all the money that the 1v1'ers get.

I was just making a point that they don't complain, and never will, because CS is at every tournament and event.

To me Dota, is a perfect example of an esport idea working like it should work.
If you're not familiar with dota, its really been a very small map/mod from the start, and it became VERY popular before anyone even thought about E-Sport. Sure it had, tournaments, leagues and such, but not really anything that gave you money. Now that Dota is big enough, the money, and major tournaments have followed.

So, i believe that, popularity ALWAYS comes first. With any sport on earth, it must be FUN and quite popular multiplayerwise before you even consider it for esport. The game doesnt have to be the most popular of all, but it must be self-sufficient.

in general the number of tournaments shouldn't be what controls the size of the community, the size of the community should control the number of tournaments

there are a over a million cs players, 99% of them aren't playing because of cpl, wcg, eswc, wsvg, kode5, esl, etc

they're playing because they want to have fun

likewise, there's perhaps a billion (probably more) people who "play" or have played football, 99.99% of them didn't do it because they wanted to play in tournaments, etc, they do it because they want to have fun

the argument here is of course that DM is more like boxing, or even racing, etc where the fanbase is much smaller than the playerbase

problem is it's a lot riskier to invest in dm numbers wise, with CS (and as announced today, WoW), the games have the numbers to back them up in all (or most.. wow spectators is debatable), rather than just hoping a lot of people will watch

q3 has had plenty of the years, it even has eswc and quakecon this year, but it isn't changing anything. sure, you can respond that it's because there is no consistency, but in the end it's just making excuses... the masses don't want to play dm any more

That's a pretty grim assessment. But I think I agree for the most part.

Quake 3 will never die, though, not completely. I think this community is about what it will be for years to come, much like the QW scene.

I'm not sure how the ESL works but I'd guess they have some sort of system which allows volunteer admins to setup ladders/leagues/cups (non-money based) like they are at CB. I've seen some wierd games with ESL ladders/cups before and it can't have been due to community size.

The problem is that nobody will play these days, try getting practice games of Q3TDM consistently over a month. You'll probably average 2/3 games a week if you really try hard enough and are lucky to have an active team yourself. These games themselves usually only last a couple of maps.

This is simply not good enough if you want to get anything from any organisation, the most people seem to do is play the occasional duel or 2vs2 and maybe 1 or 2 pickup games a week.

It's not like we don't already have leagues either.

Jolt runs a Q3 CTF tournament with 4 divisions every few months
Clanbase runs it's Opencups for CTF and TDM during Winter/Spring and Kuh3Liga runs leagues on a regular basis as well.

Non of them ever manage to attract past 50 teams or so, and many teams drop straight away or after one loss, many teams give default wins etc.

I'll admit, I see that happen, and it does discourage players.

But, maybe when Quake Live is out, they can restart, give it another chance.

*When I say Quake Live is out, I mean a good enough build for it to be played competitively*

Lets hope SOMETHING (anything!) will come along and revive the scene.

And yeah I do realise I was looking at that from a very Euro centric perspective, I guess it's ten times worse in NA :(

You bet it is. I struggle some nights to find just ONE person to duel. Now, it will be around 1 or 2 AM, but I'll /amsg in 30+ channels looking for a duel, and get nothing.

But, if leagues were to run more tournaments, and have irc channels for them, run them weekly/monthly with decent prizes (Hell, people still compete for mouse pads) then I think it would do a lot for us.

The problem there is that if you have to give people incentive to play the game, the game isn't very good. Fun > *

Well, I think once Quake Live comes out, people will realize how fun it is (Even though they're playing FFA or CTF) and who knows, you'll probably get more people from that into duel.

People don't even play Quake at Quakecon. A web interface and matchmaking won't magically make people play the game. =/

But making it free will.

Really? CS didn't need that

CS is easy to pub, cheap, runs on any machine, etc.

Well, Q3 runs on many more machines then CS, as it requires even less system specs, and I guess it's cheapier too.

But it's surely harder to pub...

I mean CS 1.6, I think Quake 3 is easier to run then that game.

Me too, Source is much more "power hungry"

Ehhh i'm sorry but cs WAS free and it's one of the biggest reasons why it was so popular in the first place

Not really, CS was a free mod, but to play it you needed to have (buy) HL anyway

Who didn't have Half-Life though?

Pretty much when it came out it was regarded as the best FPS ever, if not the best GAME ever in many publications.

Yeah but that's not the point. The point is that it's NOT Q3 beeing FREE that will make it much more successful...

I think it might help a little bit :P

exactly, as I said, not MUCH more, just a little bit.

The game is $10 retail and easy as hell to pirate - do you really think that free will make that big of a difference? As GzUz said, CS isn't free, and it's much harder to pirate. It's not the cost that keeps people away, it's the gameplay/support.

People rather click 'PLAY GAME' then find a Quake 3 torrent, download it, run the .iso, find a working cd key, download all the updates to the game, download CPMA, extra maps...

Do you want me to keep going?

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/28136287/quake+3?tab=summary

117 seeds/52 leechers. Who are these people? Clearly people are willing to get to the point of trying it via torrents, they just don't want to keep playing the game. Even if they got to the point of installing CPMA , who would they play? Servers are empty and bot support is readily available.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58ha7_quakedmta_videogames

This is a promo vid for a new clan called -=DMTA=- that i (ConfuSe) and H3ADSH0T are gonna make for Quake live (will come soon) the website is under construction but we could wait makin a vid :D

^ This is the average player who will "try" Quake Live. Bright future, I'm sure.

I rather have that kid playing then this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr4hIpfoq-E&feature=related

It's like choosing between AIDS and syphilis.

Isn't Syphilis considered AIDS?

I'll take the Syphilis.

Fries with that?

Also

Just because a torrent is seeded a lot, doesn't mean it's popular and/or easy. Sure, the torrent would be a fast download, but a lot of casuals rather go to steam, get CS for 10-20$, download, play.

Compared to what I said before, download a torrent program, make it work, unblock ports on router if it doesn't work, download a torrent, continue to learn about what a torrent is, figure out how to run the .iso, find a program to do it, install that program, figure out how to use it to mount the .iso, finally get it running, install it, then try to find a WORKING online cd key.

That's not even HALF of the work done. Once Quake is installed, it's a whole different story.

You sound like Nintendo when they said that the Revolution (now Wii) wouldn't have any online support because internet was still too difficult for the average player to set up, and most people don't want it. That's 117 people who know how to run a torrent and are seeding it, and 50+ people who are actively trying to get the game. Also, there are no comments on that torrent asking how to set it up, install it, mount it, etc - unlike most other games on these sites.

Quake 3 is also on steam now, so it's just as accessible as CS. Despite opening up the market by putting it on Steam, overall interest has dropped.

Your forgetting graphic enhancements and matchmaking is very huge thing, the ability to play people that have equal skill has you on a consistent basis is something that is the foundation of the growth of games like Warcraft 3. Even in the beta the game is popular and many players I haven't seen awhile are coming out of the wood works. The beta had 70,000 registered the first week that sign ups were open. No Quake @ Quakecon, your crazy, sure people play other games but if you can't find a game of quake at Quakecon then you are not looking in the right places. It's easy to be cynical and skeptical at a time like this so I understand where your coming from but sometimes you just have to view to situation with a more open mind.

"70,000 signups" mean little. I signed up with 5 addresses, as I'm sure many others have - most probably coming from this site. There are still plenty of signups for tourneys, only to have a small number actually show up or play through the entire tourney.

A lot of people seem to think that the problem is that a newb will get owned and quit, and that matchmaking will somehow fix everything. This is not the case. Your average player doesn't even make it online - they'd rather play bots. The ones that do get online will play on baseq3 or server-side mods in the default server browser. Epic noted this problem with UT2k4 as the stats showed that most of the players who bought the game played against bots instead of against players. They had hoped to fix that with UT3, but failed. It's not Quake, but the genre in general seems to have this same result in players.

The majority of online newb players in UT2k4 and Q3 are playing FFA instagib. Matchmaking doesn't matter to these players. The problem with Q3 is that it's designed in a way which only allows for professional play - there is no casual or intermediate side to it. There's no incentive to a new player as the game has such a huge learning curve - one that isn't worth scaling unless you're trying to go pro, which will net you minimum wage income if you're lucky.

The Korean market was lucky to have the support it needed to get SC into the position it is in now, as it is much the same in that respect. The difference is that people were already playing it in large numbers online for fun when it grew, while id is trying to revive Q3 at it's nadir. Sadly, I hear SC is on the decline as of late.

I had an open mind when Q3, D3, and finally Q4 came out. I'm done having faith in a company that doesn't deliver. I'd sooner buy a copy of CPMA than any new "Quake" game.

bla bla bla and bla bla more bla snore

with the accessibility hurdle out of the way, it all goes down to the game being fun or not for the great majority of PC gamers, which your bullshit rethoric can't really predict

By all means, continue to follow your blind faith in id. A year from now, I'll get to tell you how wrong you were.

I find it rather amusing how you try to turn every debate into an anti-id rant :D

What? This was about Quake Live.

In europe / .sca we're very lucky to have dedicated people like Krz, Legie and the LLL guys who run really great tournaments and have started up the community again.
You can get a good duel anytime! Heck I even saw a swedish LAN that will host a 1v1 tour with 500 euro first prize.
I hope the american scene will kick off soon aswell I bet that you'd even have some euro's participate with shitping just to get a tour and some fun :)!
I think there is a light in the end of the tunnel after all !

ESL eh.

background coffee shop noise is great but shouldnt overpower the interview. perhaps you need to cut up the interview a bit also, there's too much dead-air time going on. otherwise it was kinda interesting other than a few bizarre questions.

that made alot of sense

Pretty much says all, the gamers themselves decided deathmatch was not as interesting (hard, gametypes too basic, other reasons) compared to say, Counter-Strike and the leagues just followed. In turn, this means that even if you get 100 dm tournaments a year the community won't follow, and it will only be a niche thing like the PK world tour. Even the leagues can't force players to play dm games.

The only problem seems to be the case with HALO, a dm game that is immensely popular. HALO however has had a marketing budget far surpassing any dm game ever released and ofc companies like id could never spend the same amount for promotion.

it needed more questions about how powerful and important he thinks he is, imo

he thinks he is? carmac is the one who kept going on about it :]

yeah. but that's not how the question gets presented to him.

Thats one hell of a gay pic :D

Looks like Carmac is searching for a powerful man.

power? do u have power? how much power?... all

- "I dont know really...."

- Yeah, and... how much *power* do you have in means of....?

heh, he and i have similar haircuts
very nice

good ol' [sk.griff] !

an utterly fascinating individual.

Holy fuck I forgot!

im sorry but i can never take carmacs interviews seriously

somehow I don't think we're intended to.

SHAWTY WANNA THUG
BAWTTLES IN DA CLUB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rji4fFByiMM&feature=related

Oh, I forgot.

GREAT INTERVIEW CARMAC!!

Good questions, was a good watch =)

And I wonder what he was eating. Looked like cake?

It is the Portal cake.

looked like delicious cake. he had to eat it.

Good interview (a bit too much emphasis on the being important part though).

He seems like a much nicer guy to have in charge, than Angel Munoz tbh. I think he's on the spot though, we, the gamers have ourselves to blame for Quake games not being as popular as they were before. And pimping a game for E-Sport doesnt work it only manages to bring like 25 players to a major tournament.

jackie treewood?

Poor interview from Carmac. Trying to get answers out a persons ego is cheap. And although Carmac appears cheap now and again it's often in the right place and to good effect. But i'm not so sure in this case.

interviewer STOP WANKING. all questions are like. so your the most powerfull guy!? ooooh let me suck you off.

jackie treehorn maZbe mmaaaan !!

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can he even beat the goddamn batman ?

at the end of the day in the end of the day at the end of the day in the end of the day at the end of the day in the end of the day at the end of the day in the end of the day

I agree with most here, Carmac trying to be a real journalist by trying to get his answers and trying to get to a certain direction lol.

lol

would be better if it said i own you with these 3 fingers =D

The weird zoomings out of nowhere to Carmac's shirt and their sneakers were the best part

So...when will Mr.Reichert host the first multimilliondollar tournament for his favourite game so i can come out of retirement?

And when will he relaunch his CH-EU column!?

Update: just finished watching; give me 10 million dollars and i'll show you! xD

lol ppl, stop fooling yourself u aint got no power and its all about power ... cmon stop living in the denial and get out of your gamers sofas ... its all about power and u know it, the one that has power has it all.... and yoda has the most power! ... he gets all the chicks!

Love the interview, love Carmac, just wondering, whats with the random body part shots? And the camera moves to nowhere?

whos the cameramen? and Carmac your english is top ;)

tho i love when you talk english with russian accent :))))

Great interview. Only thing that annoyed me was him asking if he is the most powerful influence in electronic sports for the first five minutes of the interview. Seemed like irrelevant questions that didn't matter.

I really think one of the main bottlenecks in deathmatch gaming is the lack of a high quality community. What I mean about that is having skilled players that are supportive of newer players. A lot of times I see newer players getting their asses handed to them on a silver platter and the skilled players saying “You suck.” or something negative to the effect. This will not get new players to stick around. That will only cause them to feel hopeless and next thing you know they just bought themselves a copy of World of Warcraft because any dolt can pick it up and click on a trivial forest creature and watch the character attack until their eyes fall out. That's no joke by the way, I've seen people quit playing the game for World of Warcraft because of pious professional gamers that have their heads so far up their ass to tell them what they are doing wrong and what they could do to improve their game. Quake 1v1 has a huge learning curve to it. World of Warcraft does not. So you've mopped someone up 50 to -4. Great. Now grow a pair and help them out. When they ask for your config, instead tell them how to practice. Make them want to comeback. There is sleeping talent out there just waiting to explode into the scene. Everyone sucked at one point. There was a first victory for everyone. That's why I don't understand why there is so much arrogance and piousness with these top level players. Then they sit there and wonder why there is no tournaments and no new players. What have they done to help them, other than spawn rape them for fifteen minutes?

One other issue is the quality of games upon release. Quake 4 is notorious for being a bad apple out of the box. With more bugs then a roach motel, players picked it up and dropped it by the time you finish reading this sentence. Numerous patches later the game could be called complete, but too late because most of the players packed up and moved on. They just rushed the game too much. Beta testing was not thorough. Game developers for an anticipated title, should release a demo or beta months before the game's release to iron out any major bugs and game play issues. Said demos or betas should be modifiable to start development on any mods, competition mods in particular. By the time the game is released, it will be complete and have enough hype to attract large groups of new players into the game.

Well, that's my two cents on the electronic sports scene.