Man, I love that picture <3 <3 <3
Did you do that? :D

EDIT: BTT, does that mean id is not getting more guys working on QL?

from the joystick interview. its awfull :>

but funnier than this http://static.arstechnica.com/gaming/bethesda_id_ars.jpg

cant answere your question.
it is said the quake live team will do next the multiplayer of Rage & Doom 4 and then build maybe third team that will do big IPs.
next year new employees will come.

I'm having trouble making sense of this. If the QL development team is being moved onto the Rage and Doom 4 multiplayer how can the level of QL support be unchanged? Who's going to be doing the support?

screw support what abt development!

i guess someday the "big things" for QL are done. you need not a whole team for suppor tanymore.

the picture is even better if you read this news title with celine dion singing voice

whaha xD

"Support will be unchanged"


hmmmm, still trying to work out if that is a positive or a negative....

i'd say bad, considering the current development speed is very slow.
since the open beta day in february we have basically 6 new maps, mouse raw support and mixed bug fixes.
the "BIG" things are still a work in progress: private server with competition stuff, linux/mac support, gtv and website stats/award that were removed.

My sentiments exactly, been waiting on a reply on a forum post for nearly 4 months now :) (with me a group of 100 ppl with the same question)

"We do the best shooters in the world"

Not any more, you don't.

who then?

Anyone else who has made a good game since 1999.

= noone

Valve

the crates?

Yeeeees. :/

2001

they're full of themselves

I don't play console games, but as far as PC gaming goes there are no outstanding FPS developers, except maybe Valve, which is sad.

monolith?

Monolith and Epic have made some great FPS, but I don't think of them as outstanding anymore. FEAR 2 was too" consolized" for my liking, and UT3 … I just didn't care – didn't seem interesting.

Even if it's not your style, UT3 did sell well over a million copies.

Ok, I'm happy for Epic, but I don't think the number of sold copies necessarily says anything about the quality of the game.

Well, comparing it to what has come out before is unfair, whereas right now, they're outstanding only compared to what they are up against.

My comment was unfair in the sense I only played the UT3 demo briefly. But it just seemed uninteresting. It feels like only Valve are trying to make something that feels new.

Epic?

From the previous post:

Hollenshead said ZeniMax's acquisition will allow id to grow its internal teams, staffing up the groups working on the next Doom — which will now be a ZeniMax game — and the Quake Live team, for starters.

Maybe you could have just updated it instead of making a new one.

<3 the inline img :p

my evil plan was to feature the new interviews with a quick quote about QL.

Great.. from no support to no support.. glad that stays the same...

It really looks like that at the moment 1 person is only working on QL in his freetime.. say 1 or 2 hours a week. :(

It could all be so awsome.. but at this speed it will only be awsome in the year 3000.

Guessig they did it so Carmack can take all the monies to really own the next X Challange with a rocket-propelled deathstar.

You people are idiots.

Zenimax buying ID means they have the funds now to operate and test out what they previously could not. They are going to take their QL team and move them to rage and d4 so that they can get used to the new tech5 engine. That doesnt mean they wont have guys working on QL as well. Now ask yourself, as a Quaker, why would they be taking the guys working on Quake Live (meant to be the beta test for a possible Quake 5 depending on how it is received) and then start training them to do Multiplayer on their new engine? MMMM?

For those complete idiots who still haven't pieced it together, they are basically saying that Quake 5 is a possibility. IF everyone wants to continue shit talking Quake Live right now which has only 4-5 people working on it though, don't expect them to release another quake. It's as they say "an unannounced IP" because in terms of sales Q3 and Q4 sold nowhere near what they were meant to and they have said that QL is their last shot at seeing if making another Quake is a viable option. If there is no support from the players behind QL, they will simply do a game of a different preexisting IP or a brand new one all together.

Instead of non stop bitching on ESR like trolls, think about ways to better the situation. Anyone can just bitch about how the things you want for QL aren't out yet but if you really cared you would learn game design and go work for ID. Look at their site, they are hiring in all departments. Instead you bitch on forums that are meant to be for the game you play and all you do is drag down the community when we all need to unite and be positive if you ever want that feeling of playing a new Quake game again.

Just my 2 cents, take it for what its worth.

plused for productive criticism, but surrounding any point , good or bad, with /idiots tags is not gonna help.

Zenimax buying ID means they have the funds now to operate and test out what they previously could not.

Activision? EA? What?

So if I sum it up, you're saying:
- The guys currently working on QuakeLive have a GOOD experience in the "Multiplayer" side of Quake games
- id Software devs carefully read ESReality to get proper feedback on QuakeLive
- People who don't live in USA should not express their criticisms because they won't move to Texas to get hired by id Software

Hey, why so raged?

He wanted to prove his point that "anyone can just bitch about". And, I give him that, succeeded admirably.

One minor correction though. How tempting it might be to read recent press release lingo to us, it has to be said that "they" don't got any new funds by means of this deal. Because "they" simply don't exist anymore in any other form than as mere employees of Zenimax.

So fact is that Zenimax not only still owns it's funds but now also id. They can rip apart and plunder the shop - "studio" - tomorrow if they want. And the money that really changed hands was between Zenimax and the previous owners of id Software, money which I doubt will contribute to the further development of new games but rather be tied up elsewhere, according to those previous owners' private investment plans. Which is perfectly OK, of course.

So when talking about "them", we should really be talking about Zenimax now. And where they're headed, well I guess we'll see in 6 to 12 months or so.

wat

Hahahaha. OK, sorry. Just read the first sentence as a possible answer to your last question.

good point about quake 5. i was not aware of that.

for the argument that the sale is good i have another point.
more "development back in-house" from id because of the growing.

carmack: As we look back at the things with the external teams working on it, we've had some hits and some misses with that (Wolfenstein and Quake Wars).
and
carmack: working with other companies hasn’t been working out as spectacularly as it could.

just think of ravens quake 4, the mp could be good from raven right after the release but it wasnt. id did fixed the multiplayer.

lmao@don't shit talk ql or there will be no q5

exactly, if id software is going to scuttle quake live or quake 5 they're going to do it for other reasons, not because a loud minority of the quake community can't stop posting on esreality about how much the game is dead/dying/ because it needs/does not need ztn3tourney1/hub3aeroq3/q3wcp14/new maps/old maps/gtv/decent demo playing support/horse armor

the level it is at now? is that good or bad? assuming bad!

VB: Will Doom Resurrection be out on the iPhone soon?

JC: It was submitted today. The Apple process is still opaque for us. They owe us one for what happened at the keynote.

that was mentioned.

What happened at the keynote?

good question, i dont know what he means.

besides, there are two doom games coming to iphone, doom resurrection and doom classic.