Id software needs to stop dividing the maps. No one plays the premium maps. If you buy an account, you're paying for nothing. Look at every CA server, they never play anything but the shitty free maps. It's not because the pay maps are worse, it's because most people don't pay for accounts.

If you want the game to be successful and to grow, you don't hedge something as important as maps. If the maps are shit, the game is shit. There must be something other than maps that would make people buy accounts. It's astounding how much id does to kill the game, all in the name of money. I don't understand the logic, that killing the game amounts to profit. The better the maps are, and the more people who can play them, the more people will play the game. More people playing = more profit. That's how it should be anyway, and the fact it isn't, must be the primary reason the playerbase always diminishes. That killing the playerbase amounts to profit could only motivate a business to kill the playerbase.

Id, or the community, needs to find a way to make it so a larger audience, and a larger playerbase (increasingly so, on both counts), is what amounts to profit.