Couldn't see it in the major news

"EA’s Battlefield Heroes, has to date seen each user spend an average of $20 via in-game microtransactions"

WHAT

you have to buy weapon upgrades or something

WHAT

+WHAT

"The game apparently has 1.5 million users, spread across 133 countries; with the highest concentration in the US, Germany, UK, the Netherlands and France. Quite how many of these 1.5 million users are 'paying' hasn't been revealed."

++WHAT

I'm pretty sure that's ARPPU, not ARPU. It's still quite impressive though considering how shitty the game is and how they have managed to keep the idea that you HAVE to pay out of the players' minds, when in reality it's much worse in that aspect than any F2P.

surprise,surprise

"As a result, developer id has now admitted that it intends to turn to premium subscriptions to fund the service going forwards."

the premium service was already planned long before it got obvious that the ingame ads won't cut it

thnx for posting month old news

dunno what I would do w/o you

I suppose you would get a login and post the news earlier.

No wait, that would keep you from being a whiny anon...

login shlogin...

can't post news without a shlogin...

failed ads system = no need to restrain q3 maps entering ql cause they have to put embedded ads textures in before

I doubt that will give up the ads altogether, just because they aren't delivering that much money.

After all it's at least some revenue and I haven't seen any large-scale complaints that the ads make the game/maps unplayable or something.
And I also think they will keep hoping that the ads will pick up in the future (financial crisis over, QL getting more exposure through tournament, maybe even gtv..,)

is it just me or have there never been any ingame ads (except scoreboard)?

I think they have ads on the US servers. I haven't seen any on the Swedish, German or Dutch servers.

so it's about the server locations? thought it might have sth to do with your own ip.

no ads in Russia :D

In soviet russia, ads pay YOU!

in shirt buttons

How many accounts play quakelive at least once, on a monthly basis?

Would be a smart move to make people pay, giving them VIP status and being able to create servers, gtv, host mods and more.
Could help fund the quakelive development.

solved

Nobody caught this, either:

http://kotaku.com/5169866/even-in+game-advert...p-for-sale

I doubt IGA offered id much to begin with, as they don't have the money to take big risks without a huge return.

With the start of being able to create your own private servers, wouldn't you be able to create a server with the map of your choice, i.e custom maps? That way we could at least get to play the maps we really want to play.

you mean like in q3?

Yes. And?

i doubt

he means ql is a waste of time ; they should better have created quake zero instead of struggling to copy an existing game, furthermore a dying one. we would have wait even longer but at least there would have been some attention and support
also : nobody cares about the "embedded in a site" stuff, beside autoupdates, which is hardly related neither revolutionary

True.

But wasn't QZ supposed to be exactly what QL is today? I can't remember what they said from the beginning.

I don't recall they stated for sure it would be this or that but instead we just discovered it with the closed beta ; not sure though
but at some point we were pretty exited about a new quake, with original gameplay mecanics, hence the huge sandbox thread, in which I think syncerror said that it was interesting -so we hoped

From what I recall they said it would be Q3 (with maby some minor tweaks) all along. That's why I didn't understand your argument about QZ.

well, one of us is wrong
cba to do some research about it (but remembering the sandbox, a lot of people was hopping for some new stuff than just a q3 copypasta, delivering lot of wishes about gameplay and features)

And? Probably absolutely nothing would change, I don't see this community adapt or move on to anything unless it is forced by some authority (id, ESWC, CPL). No one started to play new maps in Q3 when it was so easy to pick up new maps, why would it be any different in QL now? You'd see the same old Q3 maps added to the private servers, at best. And then have people lose interest because it's the same old boring game as it has been for the past 10 years. way2fail :<

When id adds a map to ql, its automatically on every server, that was imho quite a big issue in q3 with new maps, not being able to play new maps cause no servers have them :F.






Now we just need id to fucking add maps :(

yeah but it still comes down to id to add these maps (ie, what we already got now) or it's only available on the particular servers that are controlled by the players (ie, what already failed in the past with q3)... so I don't see how private servers would help the community as a whole with the maps situation besides maybe a possibility to playtest new content on your own (not sure if that's possible in some other way).

I didn't mention the private servers, they wouldn't change a thing in that regard, i just wanted to reply to the "has to be forced to get played" which is a lot less true in ql compared to q3 imho.




Add maps id! :(

well not as in 'forced into tournament play' although I guess it is still somewhat true, but forced onto the servers (which formerly came with maps being played in tournaments) which is id's job :)

new maps please ^_^

Yes, true. But still better than nothing.

and still not changing anything :)

Except I will be able to play all my padman maps. ^^

padman maps need padmod game content though :>

Sssh... let me be delusional for a while.

no, you can just spawn a server in one of the locations with this, give it a password and have admin rights on it. You can't upload anything to it or the likes.

Yes, I kinda figured as much too. But I was getting some hope from this: "... to configure and run their own private servers for the game..." It was the "run" part I was referring to.

Hey look, it's Tibia.