DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

WAIT in world-class tournaments

- fixed

GIVE MORE PRIZE MONEY THAT TOX CAN COME
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Here's hoping for TDM .

but first we need some damn good maps

CTF would be nice

It's been ctf I think 3 or 4 times so far, twice in a row. Normally I like ctf a lot more, and I'd be voting for it, but this time around I think 4v4 tdm deserves a shot.

if they think CTF5 is worthy of a map pool i well personally come to quakecon myself.

Here's hoping for an early announcement of tournaments!



.. with one being 2v2 tdm.

also

gaylord > anatole

Beat me to it, wish it was at the Gaylord again.

No, anatole is way closer to me ;D

Haha, well the Gaylord is closer to me :P How much closer is the Hilton? Can't you take 121 all the way to Grapevine from Plano?

Yeah but toll sucks and it's a 50 minute drive compared to a 30 minute drive or something. And 75 is free ;P

make it bo3

make it tdm

Todd: "Is this the best quakecon eveeeeeeEEEEER?"
Crowd: "YEEEAAAAAaaaaaaaawwwwwwwn."

Also liked Carmack's keynote last year. Specifically the bit where, amongst all the rage hype, he briefly talked about how much he likes really snappy competition games. At that moment I understood that ID would never produce one again.

It's not like that voids the other games, however. Nothing is keeping anyone from playing Quake, Quake II, QIIIA, QIV, and now QL. Games don't die if people aren't obsessed purely over the newest releases.

I for one give kudos to what Rage is for iD. For years people bitch about the "same old" hallway shooters, and now complaints about expanding into something new? Le sigh.

Go iD, go John, and QUAKECON WOOOOOOO!

(Please God don't let me die of Denny's poisoning this year)

if people aren't obsessed

Aren't hyped into being obsessed. Mind the small difference, which relates to the "con" in quakecon being a misnomer anyway. Because it's not a conference but a marketing event. Where the "quake" part could be considered just as questionable these days if it weren't for ql.

And games do die, or at least almost if you will. Due to the mentioned marketing hype. But also simply due to where the money goes. Like in prize funds for tournaments. Sure, you can keep playing old games. If you don't mind most of the community being drawn away because something else needs to be sold.

Also note that your "Go iD, go John, and QUAKECON WOOOOOOO" supportive statement seems to identify you as being very receptive to the obsession mechanics you implied could be that easily controlled.

Yeah, the marketing aspect has been pervading Qcon for the past long while, but when you take into account that it *is* still volunteer-run, and compared to events like Blizzcon, E3, etc, it's much much less of a trade show and more dedicated to it's main attraction: the BYOC (tournaments get more press, but most of the people who attend the event are oblivious to their occurence).

Especially this last year, there wasn't a very large vendor turnout, so I'm happy to stand by the event as a gamer-run convention.

Regarding the Quake part of that, yeah, I want to smash some monitors when I see Warcraft 3 or CS, but that's up to the people at the event, and not the responsibility of the event itself.

So, yeah. QUAKECON WOOOOOO!

Dude, I'm confident there is no gamer run convention. Rather a sales show dressed up as one. Because it's substantially easier to sell in a a leisure time get together environment than on a shop floor anyway. That's after all why suits go golfing and yachting, remember?

Well, you go on and get excited while soaking up some of Todd's "buzz". I see little reason to do so though, no matter how much phraseology and byocs are being thrown around.

Think about who's paying the bills for such a large scale event before you start making comments like that and you will appreciate everything QC has to offer.

... sponsors.

You need to spend money to make money. Differentiating the means from the goal was the largest part of what the discussion was about. Sorry that you didn't get any of that.

Also, it appears you've successfully been made to think what you are supposed to. Well done and dismissed.

"You need to spend money to make money"...Really? Is that some generic reference that the sponsors aren't really making money? You're really trying too hard to get ahead of yourself.

I think you missed my point that there will never be a gamer run convention by means of not involving sponsors and vendor's paying for it. Unless of course it involves charging people to get in or someone with oil money paying for it all. The success of Quakecon has always been that it is completely FREE to get in and you don't have to spend a dime while you're there, outside of food and accommodations.

Did I mention it was about differentiating the means from the goal?

Don't know what discussion exactly you want to conduct there, but I can tell you it's unrelated.

Doing something new just for the sake of being new is stupid. See: Quake 4.

bad example tbh. most people liked q4's gameplay changes but just couldn't stand the doom3 engine it used.

Most people did not like either. Dunno where you got that crazy idea.

Most people did not like the bug's and few things that needed changes whereby Q4Max brought about, though it was two years later and an abandoned game when it was actually enjoyable.

Indeed

QL - 1v1, TDM, CTF, 2v2
RtCW


Please

QL TDM 2v2 or 4v4 pls

emoctis says pls LOL

And where have you been good sir? You need to be seen playing more and winning moar.

playing QL TDM 2v2 or 4v4

There is no such thing without lock teams!

ur hope that someone from players with sponsor will give u chanse to get to usa is amazing hahahaha

no nvidia = NTY!

the only question people need to ask the retarded ql devs is where is gtv

CTF ftw

2v2 TDM

PLEASE

good read is shacknews, summary of last year
and to remind me and you all, doom4 infos are coming eventually!

QuakeCon 2010 Announced
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62654

CTF, 2v2 tdm please.

proper coverage pls

To have list: Duel, 2v2 tdm, CTF, decent streams, GTV

2v2TDM / 4v4TDM / 4v4CTF / DUEL.

WHY NOT (=

but seriously, 4v4TDM...

I'm assuming there will still be an open 1v1 tournament, so I doubt they will have more than one CTF/TDM tournament.

anyone ever thought of european quakecon?

qcon is not even north american, or usa .

it's TEXAS .

yippiekayay

Texas is part of the union...

but texas is all its own.

I guess you just have to know people from Texas. *shrug*

unfortuantly

quad damage tdm!

Announce the tournaments a little earlier this time around?

Someone at id software should really release some new maps for tdm since the situation right now is not bright at all.. :/

My requests:
1) Make the prize money worth the trip.
2) At least two new maps. I assume the modes will be 1v1 and CTF, so that's only one new map per mode. Tough but do-able.
3) Make it bo3 (or bo5 for finals again)
4) Move the player's area AWAY from the vendor's area. I remember someone (dkt?) commenting on this last year. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be listening for your opponent only to hear something like "...POWERED BY QUAD CORE TECHNOLOGY!!"
5) Add nomip

They've been doing BO3 since 2008 IIRC. Last year it was BO3 + double elim. It would be nice to return to the $20k+ for first prize type pools but it's probably out of their hands. It would be nice if the prize payout was more then just 1st/2nd/3rd.

At least they moved the stage away from the tournament area. I remember in 2008 the stage was literally NEXT to the tournament area. You couldn't hear shit if there was something happening on the stage. All you hear is someone yelling on the microphone and a bunch of people screaming for t-shirts or whatever. I don't remember it being bad last year but I have closed ear headphones.

They lost nVidia as the main sponsor, so you can't expect too much.

Enough time to get GTV ready.

No more Quakecon please, not without a modern Quake or other decent game that is available to play.

Hopefully they will have fixed the Quakelive LAN server before QuakeCon :DDDDDDDDDD

And hopefully they won't 'lose' the demos due to a power failure this time!

I tweeted IEM QL and CS like crazy..hope I get to do the same with Quakecon :)

i bet that's the only thing you're gonna get, tweets

Of course I cannot be present there so streams and online coverage are the only 2 viable options.

Just use the money from Duel to host a major CTF comp, fuck anything else.

Damn, Hilton was cool but the Gaylord was freakin awesome!!! Cant wait. Please have ctf...

2v2 tdm indeeeed.

i cant wait for quakecon 2010!!