I'd have to say, id has developed a problem with prioritizing. Maybe it comes from Carmack's shift in interest, from video games to space-flight, but it is definitely prevalent. They waste so much creating stuff no one uses, when it could be spent creating things people will definitely use. And in other cases, they create something valuable, but hide it in a corner, so no one even knows it exists.

Maybe once Carmack realizes, gamers do not consider his interest in space-flight more important than gaming, id will correct its mismanagement.

>Does anyone here play freeze-tag?

sure, if i find a full ql european server these days.

>Seems to me, casual players (people unwilling to pay for Quake Live), enjoy and are fully willing to play freeze-tag, but more experienced players (those willing to pay), have no interest.

in the first weeks after the abo system ql had some full freezetag servers. i saw a few old q3 freezers. and i guess the others i dont know are old freezers too because they had the typical much colored nicks (like it was in q3 freeze and rocketarena).
there was a time in q3 where clanbase had freezetag leagues. nowadays its a just a public server thing.

>Wouldn't freeze-tag make more sense as a free-gametype? Wouldn't that bring in more casual types, and therefore, more players?

yep, easy for beginners, high fun factor. its a advertising element for quake live. the abo system isnt good for freeze.

playing the "higher level" is just teambinds & positioning & spread the frozen enemys over the map (a rocket between two frozen enemys that stands near beside so that the enemy needs more time to unfreeze two guys OR push/rocket the frozen enemy to an open place where my team can watch the frozen).

i very like the id version.

negativ points for:
- couldnt specc my teammates when im frozen, it sucks to be waiting and not seeing action, only around me
- to grab weapons/armor between inner rounds (really, whats the idea behind that?)
- respawn with plasma and shotgun seems a good idea but shotgun is very strong as we know, maybe this needs a balance

I've tried a few, but it's almost the same as ctf for me. dull ;x

It's entertaining but quickly becomes stale.

Yes it should be free. But on the other hand...what gametype should people pay for then?

Does it really make me an experienced player if I'm paying for a game? You don't make much sense here. Experienced players are if anything those who don't pay for everything that the companies are charging for. And furthermore would an experienced "quake" player see no sense in paying for a game that isn't really worth the cash or the support. QL is just a greedy ripoff that shouldn't be made possible.