The whole thing sucked TBH.
The least they could have done is give esr an exclusive of some kind.

instead you have 1000's of accounts not even being used by people who don't even care!

Invites are frozen BTW. What they should do is redistrbute license keys if they're not used for x weeks.

Then simply update them on the website until it goes global. But that would actually be a good idea.

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instead you have 1000's of accounts not even being used by people who don't even care!

That's the best you're going to get, even after launch.

Invites are frozen BTW. What they should do is redistrbute license keys if they're not used for x weeks.

Do you really think that would change anything?

Well it would stop me ans dird whining for a start and if they implemeted this into the final version it might actually encourage people to at least play from time to time to keep their account "live" similar to pay as you go mobiles.

then again, it might show the true number of active players, so maybe from a marketing point of view it would be bad.

it don't change the fact that there are people wanting to play and could be playing but can't.

it don't change the fact that there are people wanting to play and could be playing but can't.

You'd think they'd be inviting like mad since the failure that was the 5000+ invites sent out at Quakecon. Maybe they're having second thoughts.

yep. Today I saw 2 complete newbies join a ctf game and just walk around firing off 1-2 shots of mg at people and moving in circles... then they said the game sucked and disconnected :(

blah blah anyone that wanted to be in the beta could have easily gotten invite in those weeks/months it was open.

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same here

here same

Same here :(

Same here.

same here

MAYBE IF YOU HAD BEEN NICER SINCE THE START SOMEONE WOULD HAVE INVITED YOU


cc

:((

yours must have been lost in the mail :<

they ignored me on purpose, maybe ive done something to upset them /me ponders then LOLs

If *I* got in, I can't see why they wouldn't have let you in. Though, they banned me shortly after, but still...

lol

Same here and I went to the trouble of putting 3 email addresses down from 3 different IP addresses.

Shit is taking too long, I allllmost gave up what hope was left.

It seems like alot of the people in the beta

A) Got an invite but haven't even bothered to try it
B) Played it for 2 mins and decided that it was "beneath them"
C) Play it often but say "its not that great"

Open beta can't come soon enough. The enthusiastic people want in NOW.

So with a sample size of 10,000, it's doing poorly, and you think that being open will somehow fix this? The people who wanted it badly enough already got in, and if they're not playing it, what chance does anyone else have?

I disagree, I want in badly and I've not gotten an invite yet! Granted, I'm not super active in the Quake community, but that doesn't mean I don't want to play a whole lot of QL when it comes out.

lots of us are playing and enjoying it thoroughly, though I still play more promode and q4 than ql. (too similar to vq3, obv) :D

I dont think they dare to make the product open beta, when it isn't more or less final. In some way i can understand then, i'm opening my own e-commere site, and i don't want to put the website online before it is perfect either, because if consumers enter my site and see a poor selection or design flaws, chances are they wont come back again.

W O R D

See et:qw open beta fiasco as a reference. The closed beta then release is teh bestest imo. The hard part of closed beta is not leaving out people you shouldnt. Having signed up in the official site early, and being invited some weeks ago by a friend thats inside, im still out in the cold...

are you people idiots?
open beta would mean.. actually launching the game if you think about it

no ads are in place yet (only fillers), plus it's not quite ready for the hordes of newbs that will try this.

there won't be an open beta, because that would kill the game instantly.

there's a lot of people who should be testing it now, not the lucky newbies, but people who are into Quake for a long time, because they can actually tell something that makes sense. of cource there must be some newbies too, considiring all the idea about this project, but what the hell, peiple who are active members on ESR are not invited? lame.

i agree.. free beta invite for ESR members with postcount > 100-200

1000+

17,000+

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Me thinks you should be given 100 invites for you to distribute.

12k+ plz :o

nah users who have registered from 2002 and under imo.

nah, should be only users registered before 2002. :p

17k posts would mean you spent more time writing than actually playing, so no. :p

geez someone has to keep these lot amused! :P

overkill. I'd say 6 month on ESR and 100 coments is enough to prove that you are a member of community.

Quakelive is now designed to recruit for Q3. What a failure. I knew id software would lose focus on a game which had no instant cashback $$$ for them.

The whole concept of QL drawing players to Q3 is pretty much id saying "We can't be bothered to do it properly".

A web platform for a game is also a nice engine to sell. =/

I don't play because no local server :<

same here, playing with average ping >100 sux

what the..?

i ping 35/45/60 to DE/NL/UK and i'm way farther away than you are to those countries..

there are 2 different types of connection in our country:

1. with a nice pings inside and outside poland ( i used to have it when i was at university)
2. with a nice ping inside and shitty pings outside (the one i am using right now, because of vacation :/ )

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i do not remember you being nice for me, so i think not, i will wait a month, then start playing it again when i come back to university

Apparently it pays to be nice to people, Dird ;-)

I got an invite though?!?!

Everything is better in Iceland I hear. That's probably why. :-P

I'm a Brit :o

Well, your ESR Avatar must be good Juju being Icelandish.

It was Russian when I got the invite!

thanks for turning my world upside down :-(

i have an account and i never played it.

You should share it then. With me.

Please iff anyone has a acount left

Mvdvorst@gmail.com

Just saw a video of guys playing CTF and recognized the missing gibs...

Also gimme account, I wanna play and tell you guys what to do other than activating gibs!

contact@stier.cc

don't think you can activate gibs :( just that lame zappy thing

Ja! Gebt das Quake Live frei!

To those who don't play Quake Live:

Can I PLEASE have or borrow your account?

You may think its boring, stale, ect, but I'm really excited to play it!

jonmaxrouster@gmail.com

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUbzTQMnx0

I think its not too bad not having an account, we've got vq3 to play now and its fucking great. Just wait.

nice, at last they released some parts from the final http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

u ashol

yeah i would like to play, shame i cant even see how it fucking looks/plays due to lack of quakecon videos

http://www.quakeunity.com/browse=subcat&sid=125

there was nothing here :P

Theres LOADS of newbies in quakelive that can barely strafe jump. It's odd.. its about 3:1 ratio newbs:normal and like 20 pros.

With that said, duels are so much more fun than cpma, you really need to experience it, the osp strafing just makes the game MUCH quicker, and we have old rocketjumps back its very easy to rj again and the height you get is great. Weapon balance is amazing as i keep saying, it makes such a difference... its like chess in q3 again with duels, no +back rail (people can strafe quick/rj quick/hit some nice rls ) or +forward lg (people can counter LG/dodge the stream)

there's plenty of +back rail :(

because you have to hit plenty rails to kill someone :D

osp strafing? movement is kinda the same as cpma for me.

you must strafe badly :/

Not really.

Open beta will probably not happen until they have gotten a lot of systems in place (both hardware and software). ATM I think it is mostly that they aren't running it on systems (servers and connection) that can handle a large playerbase.

I like the changes made in QL.

But still need an invite :(

If this advertisement system they've got in place bombs I'm guessing they'll shut this thing down faster than you can drop your pants.

If they're expecting the numbers they've estimated then it could cost a lot. I can't see how they'll make the money they need to maintain it through advertisements alone.

I wonder what ads they'll allow as well.

- Where's the enemy flag carrier ?!?!?
- Near the big dick pill banner!
- Oh, thanks !

they would have make great commercials if there would have been gtv at quakecon- remember all the penis enlargement and other comments at gamegun and eswc masters

If I were an actual corporation that wanted to make money, the LAST people I'd invite to my product would be ESR whine-bots.

porn industry can make a lot of new clients from ESR users...

... touche'.