Finally pulling their finger out, eh? Good decision though. It would have been stupid of them to wait until the actual event itself, even more stupid than doing fuck all for the past 12 months and basically stabbing everyone in the back while doing so.

Pulling their finger out of their asses? I guess so. I thought the update was going to be about matchmaking only... but if its the whole update + maps and stuff, then about fucking time.

I hope the scoreboard gillz made is in it, really good work there.

I'd be gutted if it was just the matchmaking, especially when it says there could be 24 hours in downtime. :|

Completely agree about the scoreboard, it looks amazing. I just hope that they are aware of what the majority of people would pay to play Quake Live, because at the moment, this update will make or break it.

imho the scoreboard is overdone and crowded, but anything beats the current one

There's new matchmaking?

edit: I see it now. http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...mp;t=54257

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1929262#pid1929262
:/

Thing is... The horde of fanboys will praise it anyways, pay, because maybe, just maybe it will be good... These people will keep telling themselves that this game is good and in the end maybe they even start believing it. I didn't.

Many of these changes will require considerable downtime, potentially up to 24 hours.



Betting fixtures asap plz.

Would be fun :D

THIS MAP POOL IS PRIVATE INFORMATION and considered internal information as per your Beta Tester Software License Agreement. Do not discuss the map pool outside of our Focus environment.

Masters & Open Duel Map Pool:

Aerowalk
Battleforged
Bloodrun
Furious Heights
Lost World

Capture the Flag Map Pool:

Ironworks
Japanese Castles
Siberia
Stonekeep
Troubled Waters

You can easily search for servers on focus running the official QuakeCon 2010 Map Pool maps by altering your Arena

Japanese castles, awesome :)

is stonekeep a new map? battleforged looks interesting.

you apparently did not read the disclaimer.

If we consider history repeating and the structure working as it used to work, we will see exactly this mappool for the next year without changes.

And what did they add? One map where everyone has 10 years of experience on and another map that was exclusivly available to focus group testers for months (pros and a lot of random nubs (c) noctis).

as a new player who loves the competitive side more than anything else, i can't be bothered playing in competitions anymore for at least 4 months. I know i'm a random low-mid skill nub, but there is only one map left where I have an even (hahaha, well not even there tbh) amount of experience on (t7)

fuck you all, really

[/whine]

isnt t7 furious heights?

there is only one map left where i have an even ...etcetcetc.... (t7)

ah, get it now.. its still a bit misleading tho

T7 is still apparently in the pool :p

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1929821#pid1929821

http://freetexthost.com/bkzfegu1ts
omgomgomg

battleforge or w/e its called ain't a new map either?

omfomgomgomg



...



...

http://lvlworld.com/review.php?id=2043
Look like it's not.

• Aerowalk (Duel) - (hub3aeroq3) (lvl Review)
• Battleforged (Duel) - (lvl Review) 
• Black Cathedral (CA)
• Cold War (CA)
• Deep Inside (TDM) - (ospdm5)
• Dismemberment (Duel) - (hub3tourney1) (lvl Review)
• Dreadful Place (TDM) 
• Focal Point (Duel)
• Hektik (Duel)
• Industrial Accident (CTF)
• Intervention (TDM)
• Japanese Castles (CTF) - (q3wcp1 from CTF Mappack) (lvl Review)
• Leviathan (TDM) - (lvl Review)
• Overkill (CA) - (Rocketarena 3 Map) (lvl Review)
• Phrantic (Duel) - (Duelmap known from Quake 4)
• Purgatory (TDM) - (lvl Review?)
• Realm of Steel Rats (TDM) - (cpma4)
• Shining Forces (CTF)
• Stonekeep (CTF)
• Theatre of Pain (CA) - (Ra3map1 from Rocketarena 3)

purgatory and leviathan are different maps than those on lvl

ye it was a snapshot from me

what the fuck, are they actually adding pukka3tourney2? (aka evolution)?

too bad i won't get to play that :/

a certain ra3 map might have also had the name evolution

:/

Really looking forward this CTF competition with these maps :D

Japanese castles :3. I asked that map lots of times.

is battleforge a new map?

.

lol...

"Don't expect much" Then u go ahead and write more than QL has received in its entire life span.

Nice ;)

I guess NDA is for everyone except you?

so the premium/pro features arent included?

24 hour downtime for probably a spell error fix :(

quake live beta

Quake Live beta alpha.

on irc someone leaked this http://h.imagehost.org/0950/Unbenannt-2.jpg

Bleh. 24eu for premium and 48eu a year for pro? I can understand the pro since you're getting servers but they had damn well update QuakeLive fucking frequently for me to want to pay 24euros... Afterall, I paid half that for the Orange Box, got shit loads of games and TF2 has huge updates for FREE that's not to mention I've had it for years now and haven't had to buy it again (HINT HINT)

What do you mean ? You will be getting the best feature of them all ! Bypass pregame video advertisement !!

Im officially scared :x

I wouldn't even mind so much if it wasn't billed annually. I go through stages where I play shit loads in one week but then don't touch QL for a couple of months

Yeah, know what you mean. Dont know why ID is coercing people into commiting them selves for that long.. In all fairness the fee isnt that much monthly, but it would make a lot more sense to have it something like 2-4 months at a time if they are going this way rather than a full year.

More like billed anally, amirite? But seriously, couldn't agree more.

the only problem i have with this is that it's billed annualy, what if I want to change services, go on vacation etc etc

http://esreality.hexus.net/?a=post&id=1929770#pid1929770

:P

;)

Well, fuck me.

Looks like the end if nigh for my QL playing days. Better enjoy it while it lasts.

Seriously, i'm so fucking pissed off right now. I could live with it if it were just maps i'd miss out on, but they're even going to ruin the experience for non-paying players? Fucking pissants.

Don't worry dude, you'll still get updates if you don't pay for premium or pro



Just so happens they'll all be devpick pummel-only CA server updates

yeah i mean, no exclusive awards? thats just bullshit, totally unfair

also you won't be able to join those 10 clans you've always wanted to join

and even if i pay big moneyz i wont be able to play in 12 which is the ideal amount of clans to be in at one time.

rude

I guess you won't mind watching some shitty vid every time you want to play and waiting in a queue before you can even enter the site? k

naw im agreeing with you, this seems like it'll make me stop playing ql \o/

If you want to have a clan tag you can just pay for it!
:O

shit, wish you would have put that as inline img =(

I shall buy it just for that freezetag mod. 24 eur a year is not that much imo.

You're a crazy fucker Trance :D

I'm gonna get the 48 Euro shit JUST for Freezetag.

oh man you're hardcore

i bet you're friends with batman as well!

and Robin ofc

"access to quake live premium maps and new content" only if you pay.

Suck my cock.

-Access to QUAKE LIVE Premium maps and new content

-Regular content update

-Bypass the site queue

only for premium or pro accounts... biggest failure ever

Queue system reintroducing for standart players... omg

ID really wants to kill the ql community.

-Regular content update
Read as: you are in focus group :D
Free players will get update for Christmas if Santa is in good mood :D

2€ per month is really cheap, but I'd still rather have like 12€ per 6 months than 24€ for a full year, the price is right, just not the amount of time you have to buy at a time

it is not right, it is cheap

You give more than that for a night out.

Considering what you get for your money, it is a lot. Most brand new games cost 40-50 euros. I paid a little over 20 euros for dragon age origins and about 30 euros for Bad Company 2 (2 weeks after launch) and both of those games are new games. Paying 24 euros every year means the game will cost you a fortune compared to other FPS games. If you play for 3 years, then you have payed id 72 euros for something valve gives you for free. Does anyone really think id will add more stuff to QL, for the subscribers, than valve has given the TF2 community? TF2 updates are free after the initial fee and it cost about the same on release as 1 year of QL, which makes a 24 euro per year subscription really bad value.

fuck ye, ql downtime mean more people play q3 again. happen before many time when sync and company fail at update own code and people just want play q3. 9v9 ra3 again plz ;DDDDDDD

We all knew that ID will call for our money in some day.

But

Why we have to pay for that kind of developing? I mean lack of communication with the community previously and suddenly a huge update. Those all shit updates (to show that they care about QL) before, simply nothing was going up out there and now pay or still stay in this shit. It reminds me a story about prodigal son from the Bible (Rapha knows what I mean for sure :P).

regular solid updates = ok I will pay cause I know you will be still doing good job
no regular solid updates before = you have been giving me shit from time to time so far and should I still trust you?

There wasnt regular, solid updates before, so...

The problem is not how much we will have to pay but how have they been building a communication with us.

Bros this just leaked on irc

not seeing it yet, don't know whether it'll be serious or not...

Spoiler:

this is gonna fail so fucking much

wth would you want to join more than 1 clan?

Hi, the point is that way. ->

which way is YOUR point?

I just pointed to it.


:D

you're supposed to bring it.

If you look hard enough you'll find it eventually.

you don't live up to your name

leave me alone it took me that long to come up with something half-assed witty =P

Well, €48 a year, I'd be willing to pay. At least try it out one time, to see if it's worth it.

damn, we're gonna be so 'pro'.

Pregame video advertisement? I guess porn pop-ups are next. Seriously, fuck this this new subscription / micro-transaction business model that came with "next-gen" consoles and MMOs.

I'm officially done with online gaming.

im curious, i've seen a lot of people say that they are willing to pay a small sum of money if the updates are good enough, so what excactly constitutes "good enough"? there's some new maps, you can get your own servers etcetc and hopefully they keep adding new maps in the future, if they dont, then you dont need to pay next time? somehow quake community is stuck with the idea that service should always be free

I wouldn't mind paying for the game once (as in, purchasing it), i do bloody well mind being extorted by gimmicky bullshit into subscribing to it. YEAH WE ARE ALL CHEAP FUCKS WHO WON'T SUPPORT A GAME WE KNOW AND LOVE DEAD RIGHT ON THE MONEY SIRRAH BRAVO /PROSTRATE

i dont think adding maps is gimmicky tbh, or the ability to spawn your own servers. new games cost like 50-60€, and in sc2 for example, you will need to buy another expansion at full price in the future..

i dont know man, the price is really cheap as it is and if they keep making good updates then its well worth it

Gimmicky. Bullshit.

Obviously useful features do not fall into that category (although i find it extremely low to deny cool new stuff to people who will not subscribe). No, by extorting into subscription i mean pre-game video, queue and shit like that. It's the mmo model of annoying your user base into paying you. I personally think it's the moral equivalent of putting hardened rat droppings on someone's pizza and saying they're anchovies. I just can't support that shit.

yeah i agree on those points, but thats the way game companies work nowadays :E

Yeah, wtf is that bit about a queue?!

"if they keep making good updates then its well worth it "

LOL

does that mean you think the patch we are getting now isnt good? maps etc

I agree it will be a good update but look what was going on previosuly? No communication, shity updates? With this thaht you are getting a good update now you are also forgeting what was in the past?

im willing to pay 24e for the update now, and if they keep it up then im willing to pay it again, if not, then i just dont pay? whats the problem with that? if they make shitty updates then you dont have to pay again, unless ofc you think what we got already is worth paying to play

ok maybe its right. I will risk my 2 euro once (cigarettes) :)

exactly. We can show them we're willing to pay for good stuff (and regular updates) and then stop when they don't. Probably make a pretty strong point.

Actually i think they made the subscription model into a yearly payment because... they don't think QL will live for much longer than that. So they want your money now, when they still can get it.

a yearly payment is.... well I don't know what it is, but i don't know about a year's worth at once. A few months at a time perhaps, but to me there's no way to do what I said in the comment that you replied to and then "stop paying to make a point" or whatever.

Well thats what it says on the leaked pic. x€ per month, billed annually. Why else would they do that, ey?

Er, i mean to take away the opportunity for people to stop paying when they see it all goes to shit.

yeah I caught up with ya eventually

Fantastic. I just wanted to make sure i'm making myself clear enough, i tend to rant inanely and leave out important chunks of text when i'm high on caffeine (i.e now). ~_~

lol me 2, but when I'm drowsy or don't give a fuck lol

literally 95% of what is coming out has been available for free for 5+ years on a game where the community could actually have control over issues like map/weapon balance rather than be held hostage by some dickhead company who keeps everyone in the dark

yeah and look what it got us? a dead game where your shaft accuracy is the most important thing, no prize tournies for years and dm6 repeats forever. the worst thing about QL is all the q3 players playing it. separated communities for different mods, huge weapon imbalances etc. no one took q3 away from you, go back to it. adding battleforged to a 25k$ duel tournament is a bigger addition than q3 had in years

yeah and the whole point is for the community to not have control anymore. They can't make money off something they can't control.

thats actually incorrect.

" * Billed annually " :(

The thing with SC2, it already has an open map development system, and people KNOW that Blizzard will deliver. $50 for SC2 gets you a whole singleplayer campaign, full multiplayer, and free access to battle.net and all custom maps.All you know is that id was willing to make maps just to ask for money - so far, you have no indication that they are willing to add any other maps ever again.

Likely, if they DO add maps, they will just be old maps converted to QL - more than likely, just random shit from lvl that was equally abandoned in Q3.

Does this mean I have to pay to able to play any new duel maps?

Yes.

someone could invite him

Someone with PRO account, premium can't invite :P.
EDIT: Oh, and must be friend of him or so.... gl with that, because most of the people will buy premium, and they can't spawn servers/invite ;).

wonder if theyre gonna fix the odd freeze lags happening to everyone on alot of euro servers, either the server code is faulty or punkbuster is wreaking havoc =\

happens here (US) too

Sounds like good old PB back in glorious pre-CPMA business.

no GTV, no money from me.

haha, i was thinking the exact same thing

.

"An all new Freeze Tag game mode"

Hahaha, I love id's sense of humour.

Where is the real thing?

freezetag and maps exclusively for premium, that is silly. Not that I wouldn't pay, but that greatly spoils the game for newbies.

Furthermore, announcing a new maplist a few weeks before a tournament is bad, including dm13 in it is even worse.

i can see the point of charging for new maps, but freezetag is something that would attract newbs, and maybe later on they move to other modes/start to pay. it defo should be free

It would be ok if the maps were only meant for pub play, but having premium only maps in the duel maplist in the Duel maplist makes it pretty damn awkward.

if youre serious enough about quake to take part in tournaments or atleast "practise" the maps on the list then you can easily cough up 24e for it

how about if you're serious enough to try learning a map for Duel?

play ztn, t7, dm13? if you feel like you wanna enter the competitive scene then you're imo spending enough time to justify paying. if you only play a couple hrs a week then i dont see why you have to play excactly those maps that are premium only

human psychology is a interesting thing, it makes us want things we can't have even if they're not that important for us (in this case, if you're playing a few hours a week).

But that's certainly not as big as the freezetag thing ofc.

freezetag > psychology

=D

Rookie mistake 101:

I spend so much time doing something so it must be worth paying for

This is beyond wrong.

whiny cunts

WTF? They're basically trying to make money off of everything the community created in the past 10 years.
Someone needs to convince carmac to use Q3 for IEM!

Q3 cpma with rebalanced weapons like in quake live(other settings can be cloned too) :P. QL gameplay WITH GTV and stream with commentators... we all will have all we have dream for :P.

We all know Q3 is a better platform than QL and if you're only playing duel, renting a server is cheaper than buying a pro account and you get the rest for free.

The problem is as long as the big tournaments chose QL over Q3 everyone is going to want to play QL :/

renting a server is cheaper than buying a pro account

rofl, right.

I still have a server from clanserver4u that I rented almost 5 years ago that costs me 4 Euros a month. Get your facts right!

and its stuck in one place right?

At least I could rent one in Austria if I wanted to.

+ if the server somehow had routing problems like some ql servers still have AFAIK I could cancel it in less than a year

+ I still get free maps

+ I still get free gamemodes

Like anyone plays outside of .de .nl anyway :/

http://www.gameservers.com/game_servers/quake-3-server.php

and you can't switch locations on the fly based on who you are playing with.

Yeah you can't but there usually are enough people in the community that you can ask if you need a server elsewhere.

Of course I see the benefit in id's system but tbh it feel wrong for me to pay them for work they didn't do, at least that is what it feels like to me. Especially after the last 6 months, no updates, no communication, nothing.

ok, so they let you spawn servers for less money than renting one and you don't have to go around asking other people if you need another location.

There are enough points to criticize in this update. Server spawning for $4/month is not one of them.

Where did I criticize this? I was simply making a comparison that it would cost about the same or less (which isn't exactly how I worded it I know) in q3 and I still have the rest of the pro stuff for free, of which about 95% are community created maps/modes anyway.

you did criticize the price by saying renting one is cheaper. Which it isn't.
Especially since you seem to compare a 2 slot server.

Yes I did criticize the price as a whole which is a bit more than only server spawning and tbh I wouldn't have a problem with paying 4 Euros a month for server spawning, which indeed is cheap especially for TDM/CTF/CA servers, if the rest of the community wouldn't get fucked over.

I for one don't need server spawning, there are enough public servers around to play the occasional game, but I won't pay money for community created content that has been around for years.

well, then now you are criticizing other parts of the update, which is kinda what I said in #122

Criticizing other parts of the update is kinda what I did all along.

Do you seriously want to keep trolling each other? :P

neither of us were trolling, we discussed this and came to an agreement.
it may be a rare thing on the internet, but it does happen.

yeah, I guess you're right :)

oh and BTW $4 is almost exactly 3€

Euro per month ;). I have q3 cpma servers in my country for free :P. Besides if there are servers in some strategic country's we will be alright (like Germany...maybe 80% and even more of Europe players can play with good ping there).

define "free" please.

They are sponsored from big local provider on his own server. They are free for players(for me, for you, for every player around). There were 8 with player limit set to 22(if I remember right), now they are 4(for obvious reason).

yap, but that sponsor still has to pay them. Hardware, bandwidth, etc.
If a sponsor decides to buy 4 QL accounts he can still invite you to play on them.

Also that sponsor probably still has the control over the server (updates, which maps, etc), right?
Because if that is so, I fail to see how that is different from the servers QL currently offers.

No, we can ask for maps,mods, etc and they will add asap. They pay for it, true. But I talk from my point of view(I don't pay 50 euro per year, I payed only for quake 3 copy(yap, the servers don't check cd key validity ;) )).

$5 - 4 euros.

granted, but that doesn't make it a bad deal.

Well, it's a big deal when converted out. It's a difference of $1.31 (which is $15 more per year)

no reason at all to convert it. We pay nothing in dollars here, so we just take the euro value. That you guys get the better price is pretty much the standard, there is a reason visitors to the US ofter come with they luggage half-empty and leave with a full one ;)
In fact assumming a 1€=$1 for stuff like this is often correct (Hi apple). And that is what I wrongly did, jsut then :/
Anyway, when you take 4€/month for a server it still is pretty much the best deal you can get for western europe.

You guys get the better deal! Our currency is dying. =/

If it were $4, it would only be 3.03€.

nope, with the current exchange rate you guys pay less.

http://tinyurl.com/2f3djh5

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&s...d+in+euros

4 US dollars = 3.0338 euros

hmm?

yes, that is the exchange rate for 3 Euro or 4 dollar.
But that leaked screen says 3.99€. Or do you have any newer info, that I am not aware of?

3.99 euros = 5.2608 US dollars

So when you said that it was $4 for servers, the price would be 3€ - not 3.99€ ($5.26)

edit: Alternatively, 1oz of gold is currently $1194.38 or 907.25€

I already said that I wrongly assumed that when they wrote 3.99€ that would also mean $3.99. Looks like you repeated that very same mistake.

/e
oh and your first reply was: 4€ - 5$.

Well, we haven't seen the USD version yet, but I'm sure it will be $5.

edit to your edit: My first reply was to correct your mistake when you said

Server spawning for $4/month is not one of them.

Either $5 or 4€ are correct (unless id incorrectly charges 3.99 in all forms)

ok...
So you guys are getting the better deal ;) Evem if the don't take the apple approach.



also just fyi, both the prices of gold and oil are traded in US-$, the price is usually listed in $ here, too.

We get the better deal if they make the mistake of 3.99 in all currency forms, but you should get the better deal if they don't.

I'm not totally familiar with the US/EU exchange, but 1 euro has the buying power there that 1 dollar has here, does it not? That being the case, 1 USD only gets 0.75 euro at current exchange.

buying power is very difficult to calculate, and the official statistics use something like a standardized shopping list so it won't be that applicable. for example: Gas and clothes are much cheaper, food in restaurants a bit cheaper, but food at supermarkets about the same, while alcohol is much more expensive. It very much depends on what a speicific person spends the most money on.
Otherwise, you might as well take the Big-Mac index as a correct value :P

And it does not matter that much in this decision anyway, because what is important for id is the money they get. That is where the exchange rate comes in. If we pay 4€ and you pay 5$, they will earn more on the European market at the current exchange rate (which I believe is pretty accurate at the moment).

Or, differently put. if id lets you spawn servers all around the world regardless of where you made the contract, it would be become worthwhile for Europeans to buy a contract is the US, via proxy or friend or whatever.

Okay, now you guys get screwed. =P

So it's $4 then?

meh, its ok to pay for prem/pro account .. but the rest .. idk :/

I would pay if I could spawn a server from my provider of choice. Right now NA QL servers are ghetto speakeasy stuff that I ping garbage too. And nobody plays around here (ql or q3) so whats the point anyways.. its too late.

Seattles not bad is it? 35 ping from Edmonton.

I can count the # of players that play there with my fingers, and I'm a ctf/tdm clanner not a 1v1er anyway. The issue is the central servers where 99% of clanwars take place are pinging much higher than they do in q3 (for me, and other locations not prioritized by speakeasy network) or any other games because of the server provider ql has chosen (speakeasy).

For the west half of Canada the situation is:

Clanwar on Q3: 30-50 ping
Clanwar on QL: 70-110 ping

I really really wish people played q3 instead of ql, even if ql is way more polished and has $$$ blah blah blah :(

I'm in a similar situation, 'cept I'm down in Southern California. Thankfully people still play on LA servers pretty regularly. At least there's some action in TX, which I also ping fine to.
In q3 everyone played on Chi servers, where I ping ~100. In CPMA it's not a big deal, but OSP and ra3 it sucks/ed.
There's only been some Chi action in ql, so far.

Also, ql is not more polished than q3.
q3 > ql (always) :P

Thats just it tho, for north/south people like us there has always been at least one of the two central servers that pings decenty so we can do the clanwar thing. But I ping like ass to both IL and TX in QL (and only in QL) so theres just nothing to do.. D:

That sucks man, sry to hear. :<
Add me and I'll play with you next time on SEA/SF/LA. Can't hurt to at least get a few people on a server and see if more join.

Haha. Paying for maps, no thanks. Get off your asses and create some actual features people will pay money for instead of holding maps for ransom.

Basically this "quake live will always be free" was just bullshit? If that pic is correct, they're going to try and strong-arm people into a prem/pro subscription. While they let the "free" version just stagnate. I'm not against some type of subscription, but paying to play maps (not even newly created maps by id themselves) feels so wrong. Time to reinstall some q3 mods.

so now it`s 2 euro instead of 2 dollars?

Bullshit.

dont u know that dollars re worth shit sir? actually eurs also worth shit but still theyre wirth more shit than $

they should charge in cocaine as its allways worth much

u type like some stupid black monkey, guess ur idols are lil john and friends

hahahah u re dumb as fuck seriously hahahahahahahah tell me more please hahahahahah

1 Israeli shekel = 0.265661 U.S. dollars

It's not that simple... a $3.57 bigmac in the US will cost 15 sheckels, which is $3.97. http://www.oanda.com/currency/big-mac-index

Read carefully the last part of the leaked premium/pro account screenshot.

In the end you only need 1 person of your clan to have a pro account (he can invite 3 persons to those servers), so it may be worth it for non-americans since there should be enough people that could join those servers. If it has enough content I will buy this

I have to say tho this "constant update"thing looks promising`- they wouldn't be writing this after years of community whine if they didn't mean it, so if that's what's needed to save quake, I'm in.

if they're gonna use some of that money to pay mapmakers(i'm guessing that's what is meant by "regular content update"), then i'm all for it.

good map makers are one of the reasons q3/cpma was so awesome. if id actually has someone like swelt working for them. the work these guys have put into making maps for free...

from what i heard the plan is to use the subscription money to do exactly that

that, is just totally awesome

you're my new favorite hero just for saying it <3

good to hear! make sure id won't ban you for telling us :P

noctis is the hint-dropper

he gets really close but never goes past the point of NDA lol

i have no idea what you are talking about

okay

well, obviously noone is talking about quakelive, and especially not about a focus group. Mentioning anything in that group is forbidden, so you would not say a single word about it.

So, would you care to not say anything else? :]

whenever you're breaking the NDA just say "I heard from Slasher that....." ;)

lol

"... a little slasher told me..."

wtf is quake live premium maps and new content? so i have to pay in order to play hub?

quality costs my dear friend

theres a reason why dm6 and ztn are being treated like some cumstained two yen slovakian hooker

go haab3aarho \o/

Yes.

yes, or have a friend who pays and invivtes you, apparantly.

oh, i think u handsome

IT'S NOT WORTH IT BRO

im desperate 8<<<

lol 2 bucks a month is nothing. I will gladly pay ID that, they deserve it.

no they don't.
but i'll pay anyway since it's so cheap.

Ignorance is bliss.

More like 8 bucks.

Rather pay $50 once for a game I'll play for 10 years.

It feels like tropical rain in amazon here.

Man, some of you guys just don't have any values, don't you. :|

You are going to pay ID to be able to play on new maps, not get stuck in some artificial queue and not get pestered by some bullshit vid playing before your every game. That's insane. That's ridiculous. Doesn't matter if the amount you have to pay is insignificant, hell i'd gladly pay twice as much if they'd just not stoop so low to get my cash. Words fail me to describe how utterly disgusting that is. I'd rather see the game die than be turned into this abomination.

where did the idea of this queue come from?

Why, the leaked pic of course. Bypassing it is one of the features.

the leaked pic that you posted, or somethign from somewhere else in the thread? I saw the one you put up, but others I can't cause I'm at work & its blocked.

Ahaha, no i just photoshopped a pic that someone else posted here earlier in this post.

yeah that's the one I wished he would have put up as inline img so I could see it. Its blocked for me

Er basically in the place of the bs i wrote was a list of features that goes as this:

Feature | Standard | Premium | Pro

Access to quake live premium maps and content [_] [x] [x]
An all new Freeze Tag mode [_] [x] [x]
Exclusive awards [_] [x] [x]
Create your own clan [_] [x] [x]
Regular content updates [_] [x] [x]
Bypass pre-game video advertisements [_] [x] [x]
Bypass the site queue [_] [x] [x]
Ability to start and customize your own servers [_] [_] [x]
Invite three non-premium friends to play with you on premium maps [_] [_] [x]

well thanks dude for doing that.

and yeah that queue thing is shit. I sure as hell wouldn't try to play for free just to have to wait in line. Okay, I get the hostility now, lol.

Np man. And yeah, i mean when i first learned i'd have to p2p on new maps i was like "well shit that sucks i love overkill oh well FFFUUU- *shurg*" and then i see freeze tag will be out of my reach as well (i used to play that gametype A LOT in a obscure and incredibly retarded mod for Q3 i shall not name here) and am like "FFFFFFFUUUUUU- GOD DAMN" and then i continue reading and see i'll have to put up with waiting to even start playing and am like "FOR FUCK'S SAKE GIVE ME A BREAK FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" and THEN i see that there will be (non-skippable, is my guess) cute little video ads playing before every game i want to play and i just melted the fuck down. This is wrong on so many levels. 8<

hell I dont' mind the video between games, even though its annoying, hey its more advertising for them or whatever. Its just the queue that irks me, but it doesn't really bother me because I'd just pay.

Well individually i'd be able to put up with any of that, really. It's not the fact i'll have to watch a razer logo for 10 seconds or some shit or will have to wait 5 mins in a queue, it's more the sum of all the inconveniences. Like i said, my problem is not with the fact that they want my money, but the way they go about to get at it. :-|

I'm pretty sure it's referring to the queue from back when the game went live. It probably still exists but not enough people currently play to trigger it. Doubt they are forcing it.

That's what i would think as well, except the option to bypass it is listed as a feature. Maybe i'm being paranoid, but considering everything, can you honestly say it's beyond ID to bottleneck the site traffic so that there will be a queue, even if a small one, at all times, just so they have another tool for bullying people into giving them monies?

Yeah I think your being paranoid. It is pushing it to list it as a feature, but I don't think they will deliberately force queues on us. They already apparently have video ads in front of games, I don't see what they would gain from making people queue.

We'll see, i guess.

My line of thinking is that they'd induce these slight delays in order for people to get annoyed enough to fork over some cash and be rid of said delays. 15 secs to wait before you can log-in here, 10 secs of watching some ad before the game there, seeing people having parties on Overkill in Freeze Tag, all in order to exploit the rapidly spreading mmo brainwave of "hurr durr is only little monies for awsum kontent + no anoyance i has to has itz".

The game isn't getting bigger so id are just trying to pressure people into paying before it dies.

To be honest, I'm pretty sure that cutting their losses now and killing QL would be better for their bottom line than continuing it for another year. What I mean by this is that the whole concept of squeezing money out of people before it dies is flawed in the case of QL.

What I mean by this is that the whole concept of squeezing money out of people before it dies is flawed in the case of QL.

A flawed concept hasn't stopped them before, why stop now?

id is fine with flawed concepts. Being zenimax/id now? Probably not so much. Bleeding money is a bad thing for a big company like that.

Then again, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe id has way more leeway than I think they do.

how about you wait another day and see how it actually looks like before going all berserk.. can't really imagine they are going to force everybody who's not paying to wait in a queue all the time. maybe something like the queue back when the servers couldn't handle the load of new players, we'll see.

NO I MUST MANIFEST MY IMMENSE RAGE IMMEDIATELY

and in caps

FUCK THIS SHIT.

We didn't need ZTN/hub or whatever maps from the past.

QuakeLive was supposed to have NEW maps, just new maps.

We aren't retarded, we could have designed ra3 type maps and brand new ctf maps for fucking FREEEEEEEE. The community is that hardcore, what the fuck is id doing?

We have to pay for shit that was free during quake 3? Even the fucking mods, that the freezetag guy said he would give id for free? Are you shitting me? GTFO of here. Freezetag/threewave/ra3 that shit is FREE NIGGA in QUAKE 3.

And CPMA > quakelive for TDM/CTF/1v1.

MOTHERFUCKERS, DO NOT FUCK AROUND WITH ME.

You have no lan servers and shit routing for all your fucking servers, quake 3 servers can be put up ANYWHERE for anyone, gimme a fucking break.

id you fucking pussy, you suck shit, you won't get my money.

I'll watch these niggas play quakelive on stream, but as far as this shit between us goes, its over, fuck you.

you'll still pay.

Holy shit bro O_O

you got out-raged, sonnn

Big time. Shieeeeeeeet 8<

pwnedd

Can you stop posting as well then, would make the world a better place.

I know its like a business is only in business to make money or something.

Seriously man, you really expect all this shit to stay free?

Im with you!

I stopped reading at "We didn't need ztn.."

There ARE new maps. As in newly made. At least in the leaked change log.

hahaha

... well more money... more maps... more servers... it can only get better...

... supporting the community with paying the mappers... who makes ppl happy, to have new maps to play on. So ql can sustain itself AND give back to the community ... to have a full circle. ... job well done.

or they coulda just made money from advertising and not ripping q3 players off by introducing everything q3 has step by step, like the plan was.

Make a great game
Remake the same game for an internet browser
Remove tons of features
Drip feed them back into a desperate community
???
PROFIT

pretty much that, other companies can learn from this if they wanna squeeze out $$ from their community some more. now they just need to add a hint of EA and do it with all their games on a 6 month basis and sell them for the full price excluding 20 quid per DLC. 5 dlc's per game.

QL is up right now.. so i guess no update?

id is just trolling us now lol

Time to play militia?

On the one hand, I don't mind paying 2 euros per month for new maps, new game modes, no ads, etc, and just have fun with all this stuff.
On the other hand, it kinda feels wrong to pay, because so far id software's actions in last year or so mostly produced only more and more hate from players. They stopped almost all communications with community, the only guy that was really helping, TTimo, was pulled off from QL, it became absolutely impossible to set up a LAN server at your competition because id wouldn't even reply to your requests, etc. Even when people were trying to do something for id, like asking for a map contest, id simply rejected all help for lame reasons. Then they started to make things secret. Focus group, NDA's, that promised DevBlog post that never got published and so on. Even QCon maplist is secret. And they banned slasher for telling us even little bits of that super secret information that were already available on ESR. So basically, they completely barricaded themselves from the community, except the focus group people kept under strict NDA, and after all that ask for our money. And even the annual payment scheme kinda suggests that id themselves don't believe that people will keep playing. WTF, id?

Exactly. I have put a post about the same.

there were several mapping contests held for q3 with syncerror in the judging panel, winners such as focal point and battleforged will be in the patch...

*And even the annual payment scheme kinda suggests that id themselves don't believe that people will keep playing.*

-Or a transaction of ~2EUR is not worth it at all?-

Why not?
Take ESL, for example, they have similar prices for premium and it's ok for them to charge monthly.

eh even most who are bitching for whatever reason will pony up the money eventually no matter what they say

thats actually a good comparison, would you mind telling me what they offer for the same amount?

What has that to do with minimal transaction amount?
Or better, just explain your point instead of asking more questions.

It has nothing to do with it, I just thought its a good comparison to see what they offer for the same amount of money, thats all.

I cant explain it well in english... there are bank transfer fee's and stuff...

Tournaments with tons of prize money (IEM).

TANSTAAFL

I honestly cant understand how anyone can whine about paying such a small fee for a whole year. Please go play something else and never come back.

I honestly cant understand how anyone can whine about paying such a small fee for a whole year.

That's because you're a mindless consumerist drone, who is also unable to read and contemplate the reasoning behind refusal to put forth cash for the service.

Do you have any idea how many hours it takes to create a decent QL/Q3 map?

You mean convert a q3 map into a ql map with some silly eye-candy? That's basically what they've done so far.

yeah.... research proves that no QL maps are totally new (i think?); theyre all just premade maps that are modified (player clips all over the place for extra annoyance, and some billboards thrown in.

also, you can easily decompile QL .bsp files with q3map2toolz, using the ET setting. QL .bsp files are ET .bsp files... which is kinda funny.

yeah.... research proves that no QL maps are totally new (i think?)

lol............................

Thats simply not correct.

elaborate

-[MAPNAME]-------------[FILENAME]-[YEAR]-[RELEASED AMONG]----------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Dueling Keeps' (qzctf1) = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Troubled Waters' (qzctf2) = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'The Stronghold' (qzctf3) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Space CTF' (qzctf4) = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Fallout Bunker' (qzctf5) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Beyond Reality II' (qzctf6) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Ironworks' (qzctf7) =
'Siberia' (qzctf8) = ? ; ?
'Bloodlust CTF' (qzctf9) = 1999 ; 3Wave Map Pack
'Courtyard Conundrum' (qzctf10)= 1999 ; 3Wave Map Pack


##########################################################################
*##########################################################################

Capture the Flag - Team Arena
-[MAPNAME]-------------[FILENAME]-[YEAR]-[RELEASED AMONG]-----------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

'Base Siege' (qzteam1) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Inner Sanctums' (qzteam3) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Scornforge (qzteam4) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Vortex Portal' (qzteam6) = 2000 ; Team Arena
'Rebound' (qzteam7) = 2000 ; Team Arena

Non existant: qzteam2,5,8,9,10

##########################################################################

"Multipurpose Maps"

-[MAPNAME]-------------[FILENAME]-------[MODES]-----------[YEAR]-[RELEASED AMONG]--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Arena Gate' (qzdm1) --,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'House Of Pain' (qzdm2) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Arena Of Death' (qzdm3) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Place Of Many Deaths' (qzdm4) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Forgotten Place' (qzdm5) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Campground' (qzdm6) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Temple Of Retribution' (qzdm7) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Brimstone Abbey' (qzdm8) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Heroes Keep' (qzdm9) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Nameless Place' (qzdm10) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Chemical Reaction' (qzdm11) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Dredwerkz' (qzdm12) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
*'Lost World' (qzdm13) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Grim Dungeons' (qzdm14) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Demon Keep' (qzdm15) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Cobalt Station' (qzdm16) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'The Longest Yard' (qzdm17) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Space Chamber' (qzdm18) CA,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Terminal Heights' (qzdm19) --,TDM,---,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Hidden Fortress' (qzdm20) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 2000 ; Dreamcast / PS2
*'Power Station' (qztourney1) --,---,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Proving Grounds' (qztourney2) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Hells Gate' (qztourney3) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Vertical Vengeance II' (qztourney4) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = 1999 ; Quake 3 Arena
'Almost Lost' (qztourney6) CA,---,1v1,FFA = 2003 ; idArchives
'Hells Gate Redux' (qztourney5) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = ? ; ?
'Furious Heights' (qztourney7) CA,TDM,1v1,FFA = ? ; ?
'Temple Of Pain' (qztourney8) CA,---,1v1,FFA = 2000 ; Dreamcast / PS2
'House Of Decay' (qztourney9) CA,---,1v1,FFA = 2000 ; Dreamcast / PS2

someone just sent me their backup of this, from another private forum.


too lazy to clean it up. suffer through it all, or just realize that im right and youre wrong

ur WRONG

:D

What do those question marks mean?

means whoever did the research isnt sure. i didnt say 100% of the maps are old remakes, but most of them are. im sure if we looked harder (we pulled this together over a couple hours) we would find them all, somewhere. as of now those are the only maps we know for a fact are just remakes.

sorry but that seems like a pretty will assumption to me.
Only because the majority of maps are old/remakes, they must all be? Nah thanks, I'll wait for the actual proof.

Also, people seem to forget that this is the quake community. If for example dm6, dm13, dm14, t4 and others had not been in quakelive the whine would have been insane. Just like at the whine demanding ztn and hub, and old ctf maps.

im not really saying my prediction or w/e is accurate; there might be a couple new maps, but so far a lot of them are remakes of old maps, and the fact that most of them are remakes makes it seem like they all might be.

anyway, technically now theyre all in quake 3 (converted, working 100% and stuff, we even have a cpma server up with the maps on them but i lost the ip/port D:)

well, I mean it's obvious that id wasn't putting to many ressources into this, but still the connection most aren't new therefore probably non are still does not make much sense to me.
Think about this: Even if you do make new maps it makes sense to convert the old ones with much less effort, especially if the community is so vocal about a lot of them. (ztn / hub, for example)
Whether the old maps are then in the mappool or new ones are taken, as many have demanded, is imo an unralated matter.

i know all that, and im not saying that i, myself, think that theyre all just remakes, but the fact that most of them are makes it _possible_ or even _likely_ that theyre all remakes. new maps are better than old maps, depending on how good the map actually is, but remakes usually feel kinda new (q3 dm6 is VERY different from the QL one), etc. etc.

them are makes it _possible_ or even _likely_ that theyre all remakes

yes, you have been saying that repeatedly, and that is what I am replying to. I have made my point why I think that conclusion is flawed.

that new maps are better than old ones is just your opinion, and someone else will something wrong. Feel free to look up the old threads when ztn wasn't in. Lots of people want old maps that they know.

yeah, old familiar maps are cool, but QL is meant for newer players, so old maps dont matter to them that much... though i guess they would be more important, since new players dont care and old players do...

anyway, fine: ill stop saying that its likely or w/e that all the maps are remakes, but its not impossible. im just sayin'

certainly not impossible, I agree.

there we go. common ground ^_^

haha cute thing is, now they hub and old ctf map are coming from the looks of it anyways, people are whining about thaT!!!!!!L!O!L!!OL

yap.

which is why I am convinced that there can be no "good" new map for this community. A portion will always hate any new map a mapper introduces and be more vocal about it that those who like it.

Hence all those who are saying "I'll gladly pay, once we have good new maps" have an excuse to still complain and not pay.

No i don't, please tell me all about it.

and u re sucha nonconformist lmao

i can understand why wouldnt u want to spend 10keur for a new fiat panda or whateve this crap cost and choose to ride a bus instead but spending 2 fucking eurs on a quake? why fuckin not?

lol its a miracle id even bothered to make this game live again. without id this game is DEAD cos a shitheads like u can only complain sitting home doin nothing. i bet u re not sucha smart ass when u pay for your daily hamburger at mcdonalds

I knew you are retarded from some of the other bullshit you're writing, but you sure are reaching a whole new level here.

I've stated like five times in this thread alone why exactly i am hostile towards what ID is doing, so feel free to actually read my concerns and address them. Unless all you are capable of doing is going "waah waah u r the bad men dun hate lol cheap (((" in which case fell free to fuck right off. Actually feel free to do that anyway.

im glad u noticed my progress

wont bother reading all your posts mate cos u aint got much to say really

try renting yourself a server for 2eurs a month

cos what u dont realize is that when u go play your beloved cpma or q3 or whatever there is someone else who is fucking paying for the server u re playing at

but u dont care cos u re so fucking polish

Haha. How the hell can you possibly understand and discuss my position if you dont read what i write? Yeah just assume a lot and take on a holier-than-thou attitude, you know what that makes you? A fucking clueless opinionated dweeb. Learn how to construct an argument and then try discussing, you moron.

no matter how hard i try ill never understand your position

It's not the fact that we have to pay a small fee, It's the fact that we have to pay for a whole year.

As I already mentioned above, a transaction of ~2$ doesnt make much sense.

I can see your point, but seeing it from most other view points. Paying ~$62usd for a WHOLE YEAR of Quake with the chance that the game could completely die, or not even be updated. If they're worried about people buying a month and saying "fuck it this shit blows" then make them pay bi-monthly or even tri-monthly.

ITT:

[*] OMG imma so mad id are charging monies for something we all want (maps)

[*] OMG I refuse to pay anything for quake until they offer something we want.

new maps, faggot

not old shit that was released 10 fucking years ago

People also requested the old maps, and who says there aint new maps coming?

people didnt request a forced-queue or some crappy ad videos before matches... people dont want to have to pay for remakes of old maps... hell, i wouldnt pay for maps at all since in q3 you get new maps daily (literally).

basically, some people would gladly pay for maps, but they dont want to have to pay to avoid all the crap normal players have to suffer through. it would actually be worth it to get private servers + maps + mods for premium, but the fact that normal people cant play them without invites from pro users is kinda lame...

or something.

The map list leaked a while ago had new maps.

[*] OMG i dislike the steps ID took to ensure they'll get their money and even though i would gladly pay cash to support the game i love, i am now left bereft of any good will towards the company.

What steps?
No one is holding lightning rods to your nethers to force you to pay. Stay free if you want.

#(*&#(#(@#%(^#$&*#$#@*(#%@@&#*&#

Read the thread.

or just this.

And this

so is this your own opinion or some other point you're trying to make?

LETS MAKE A STRIKE AND PLAY Q3 INSTEAD. When everyone changes back to q3 the q3 community will be big enough to find games at anytime.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

NOT HAPPENING BRO.

how about we just let everyone that thinks that go?

you think everyone will pay? LOL

QL lured a lot of fresh blood because it is/was a FREE BROWSERGAME.

Maybe 1/4 of the community will pay... but they will notice the lack of players and wont enjoy ql anymore. QL community will decrease and decrease untill its dead.
The non-payers (standart accounts) will quit ql in a flash (because of queue system... and the knowlegde of NO NEW MAPS/CONTENT IN ANYTIME).

The only reason I played ql was the active community!

its still free, it just wouldn't ALL be free

exactly, they've always said premium accounts were coming.
what was free is still going to be from what they've said.

you think the players will enjoy the FREE part? Queuesystem? rofl

they already are enjoying the free part

are you serious? did you still enjoy dm6/ztn everyday?

The queue system has always been there just never enough people to trigger it. They aren't putting any queues in it's just something else for them to list as a feature.

One good thing about this pay for service shit is, you're gonna have to pay to hack people now, muhahhaa

wow,..wtf

how can an old game be so expensive ,..its fucking q3 but much worse ,whats going here =!=!??! i wont pay 80 $ for 3 years (my estimate minimum :P )

eeeeehhh

You are so dumb, you are really dumb, for real.

^ ^

so they are putting this map, battleforged or whatever in the duel pool..this is what toxjq said unprofessional.

too much fun not enough serious, shame on them idd

looks like its down

nobody's gonna pay 24€ to rent for one year one of the parts of a 10yo pc game

pretty much sums up why id's business model is optimistic at best.

i payed 27 euros for SSF4.. and i actually play that daily

I don't get your point, enlight ?

price is too high for a 10 year old game that i already own (Q3), but i rarely play anymore

i would pay for GTV access though since i like to spectate events.

I still don't get what ssf4 has to do with it, but I may be drunk anyway (but I know I would not rent an xbox live account or such to play games, never)
I would not pay for gtv, it already exists for q3 and it's the same game -anyway I find free streams good enough for ql, their bandwidth have improved sufficiently now, at least it's good enough to cast duel comps -the only mod remaining since everything else is dead because of lame maps/settings

was comparing prices: SSF4 was 27 euros to own forever, QL should be 24 euros for 1 year..

also i want GTV for full framerate.. you don't get the same sense of speed and accuracy with streams @ 30 fps (at best)

it makes sense now (and even, ql isn't an extension of q3, it's just q3 -with free servers ; but anyway there are free servers for all mp games (including q3 ofc), never had to pay for one exept for clan play because we felt like going classy and have one)

full framerate for the same duelers on the same maps playing the same way again and again ? I don't even bother launching big names duel streams since months (gotta admit I'm not a big fan of the mod) ; I guess I'll take a look 5min at qcon (btw ctf is hard to follow on gtv too imo, I just struggle with which pov to spect)

That is double to four times what I earn per day :(
Our 56k modems takes about an hour to load a 5mb add :(

Looks like South Africa will be going back to cpma :|

LEARN TO NOT GET AIDS

THEN I WON'T FUCK YOUR MOTHER.

ARE YOU SAYING I HAVE AIDS THEN?

I DON'T KNOW, DID U FUCK YOUR MOTHER?

NO, BUT AIDS TRANSFERS FROM MOTHER TO CHILD, SO IF MY MOTHER HAS AIDS THEN IT IS LIKELY I HAVE AIDS AS WELL.

too late?

YUP :(

Lol, get a new job, I was earning more in CT than I earn in London. Considering we pay like €80 per month for internet... Who still uses 56k anyway?

It is only because your dad is the local shaman. :(

life is cruel, if aids dont kill you... something else will so... your comment is fail

finding-reply-button fail

I didnt play q3 so it is all new for me :) Propably i will pay. Go back to quake 3 arena children.

WE WANT Q3 IN BROWSER FOR FREE, WE WANT NEW MAPS FOR FREE, WE WANT QUAKECON FOR FREE, WE WANT hmmm.... SOMETHING FOR FREE

We want GTV

CANT ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT BRO.

BUT IF YOU TRY SOMETIMES...

Looking forward to the update.

This is a good time for arQon to launch CPMA standalone.

No installation for quake 3 or updates or anything, just download CPMA and install.

And then have all the modes of quakelive + if he adds freezetag/capturestrike mode it would be way better.

last I heard arQon vanished

http://esreality.hexus.net/?a=post&id=1927848#pid1927848

clearly abducted and murdered by id mafia.

good idea

yawn

moan

.

suppose last number equals less pleasure for her highness

what the fuck is that? what a bullshit :D i won't pay for sure

those things which they're giving us now in this update ( i mean maps ) should be in quakelive atleast year ago and they even trying force me to pay monthly for this :DD ridiculous i'm not even saying that those maps were in quake 10 years ago :DD

better do GTV and eventually then force players to pay for watching matches online from tourneys like quakecon or eswc because if this will look like it seems it will be then this must be some kind of joke :DD

it is a small price for a year. I'd pay if they promised no downtimes anytime.
Quake is addiction for most players and me included, it's like when you want to smoke you're not allowed to for some time.

Omg i just started cpma (vq3) for the first time in years and im crying tbh,its soooo good :'(

I know that feeling :(

While I think id is going in the right direction with more classic and new maps, a new match-making system, and a lot of other stuff, it bothers me more what is NOT in all the leaked info. I miss many things, some examples are:
- GTV
- "Netcode" fix so you don't have to aim BEHIND to hit
- A better spawn system (1vs1/TDM/CTF)
- Removal of that weird CTF overtime delay system
- Slots for spectators only (requested a thousand times)
- 15 min. tl for duel
- Option to turn off online/offline notifications of friends while playing which causes horrible lag for many people
- Overall way better performance (CPMA runs smooth as butter, while QL still feels like baseq3)
- Chat tokens
- Decent server browser (list view, that I can refresh when I want, like MAXBrowse, etc.)
- A better scoreboard
- In-game accuracy with shots fired/missed (like OSP/CPMA)
- Something better than Punkbuster
- Option to turn off rain, snow, etc. (while this stuff is still nice for movie-making, it's distracting even with high picmip and so on)
- Separation of CTF and TA (ideally keep TA weapons to that gametype since they don't improve gameplay)
- 5 min. overtime for Pro TDM
- At least the option to drop a power-up in CTF, better would be a /kill command
- Sound system still feels broken and sometimes gives lag

We all knew QL wouldn't stay free forever. I for one think premium and pro accounts are a good offer, both cheap. What they want from us for a whole year even for a pro account is easily spent in one night going out. At least these are prices that don't hold me back.
For me it doesn't matter if it's free or if I have to pay little money, but what I DO care about is if the game is GOOD or not! Did you ever think when getting the spawn below YA on DM6 vs. LG spawn of your opponent: "After 10 years they still didn't manage to sort out spawns, most likely I already lost if he doesn't suck, but such flaws are ok and I'm fine with it, because QL is free and I have to be thankful to id"? No, you didn't, of course. You don't see people going around for no reason or hammering their heads onto walls just because it's free. That's not how stuff works.

If you want to attract people, you will need to have a good and polished product. Then you can charge money. Else you will lose customers no matter how low the price is, even if it's free.
Regarding QL I think it has the potential to attract many people, it could easily grow, could have a big community--a win-win-situation for id and us players is possible. But the game still has a lot of major problems. I don't see me having fun with a bad spawn system or when in a game-deciding situation QL lags me to death just because a friend logged on. Some people suffer from horrible lags and fps problems even on high-end machines. As said above: There is no price that turns such situations into an awesome experience!

This is what worries me: id keeps adding stuff to QL like looking through walls (who asked for that?), bloom, endless color options, damage indicators, and whatnot, but did we hear an explanation to important changes like tl 10 for duel? No! A widely discussed issue, but id refuses to talk to us at all. While BETA testing...
At least id is on the right track with maps in this update it seems, but they have to work on the basics. When QL went open beta people came back to Quake or moved over from Q3, we had a lot of fun, but many of them are fed up with bad hit detection (when you have to aim behind an opponent there must be something wrong after all), lags all over the place, a bad spawn system, etc. If id wants QL to be successful, they will need to provide a solid product.

I'm willing to pay, but id needs to adress things like listed above and should start to talk and listen to the community.

i perused your post and as for disabling/enabling friend notifications, that's already there. I
disabled everything, the awards, the friends coming online/offline etc. Also, I don't get any rain or
snow but maybe that's cuz i use picmip 5

Well, what you did was turning off everything on the website. I mean those messages WHILE PLAYING. There is no way to get rid of them.

Yea, I have yet to see rain and snow in QL also due to my settings. But the view on maps that have it is not as clean as without this stuff.

- Slots for spectators only (requested a thousand times)

has been implemented for a while

- Decent server browser (list view, that I can refresh when I want, like MAXBrowse, etc.)

agreed, but until its done, we can just use the competitive server browser plugin for firefox/greasemoney

has been implemented for a while

For non-duel servers? Unless it's a private server only feature which wouldn't do most people any good.

oh, i just assumed it would work in all game modes, i personally never wanted to use it besides in duel so i never tried... lmao@id

most of this shit is subjective and your own fucking liking. I like the ot in ctf and i like the 10 minute duels so these things you say to change aren't absolute necessities faggot.

$40 x 500 people every year is a load of money for a company like id soft, they afford now to pay one programmer all year =/

good luck getting a programmer in USA for the lucrative annual salary of 20,000 $.

I was a bit "optimistic" )))

Its not too much , if you want to play SC 2 you will pay around 80 euro and thats 2 years of QL

BUT


you get box woth nice cover and DVD and you can use it forever. I dont like paying every month !



Its new-age strategy .... you will make old game in browser ... you will not update what you want and they find out what players wants and then they will make it but for money.And yes ofcourse everybody wants to try it and who want to play and be better in this game ... then will pay for sure. Its like with porn - you can see nice girl naked and there is - only for 5$ you can see full video where she f**k with other hot girl or smth like that.

cu & bzzzzz ( sorry for incorrect ernglish )

Err, what? 80 euros for the collectors edition, but 40 euros for the regular. Unless you want the soundtrack, wow pet, art book, and a flash drive, you don't need the CE.

ok In Czech Republic it cost 1400 ( 58 euro ) , it was just example it can be other game

In stores? Just buy it online - you can digitally buy/download the game directly from Blizzard.

Yeah, but some people like to have a box for their private collection.

who da fuck pays for porn?

I pay for hookers. $95 for two hours, can't be beat.

I would like to kidnap one and use her to pleasure myself whenever I wanted, but I lack the strength to properly restrain a woman. :(