The people don't hate Quake, they just have no confidence in the dev-team. If you invest yourself in a game, you'd like to know the investment will prove fruitful. With all the critical-errors made by the QL team (which seem to never end), and the concurrent failure to implement anything successful, it's perfectly understandable why people would be 'miserable'.
Maybe that's part of the problem... id doesn't understand that we're investors. They think of us as customers, or possibly worse.
It's one of the things that make me happy. It's not like I would want anything else in life but am stuck playing vidia games. I do this on my own will because I enjoy it.
being up-to-date with all the flame and arguing on esr makes one a more clever person!
Also, the percentage of morons in quake community is surprisingly low, when juxtaposed to other games or other free-time activities. What's even better, the percentage of cheeky and smart people that are always ready to make amusing, ironic comments is obviously the highest. Thus it's a sheer pleasure to spend here a quarter or so everyday.
(Now a comment about Poles should instantly appear :P)
I think you have a surprisingly good english for a pole. Except for the "in quake community". A little effort should get you the best english speaking pole award.
However, it took entire 3 hours to satisfy my wish. It can be put down to the early hours, when I posted my comment, but still, it's not instant enough to thoroughly support my thesis of those "always ready".
Also, how should I have said it instead of "in quake community"?
for me atleast its sadly a part of my life...((( Cant take away c.a 10 years of playing quake and dont visit / play quake, but my brain says its enough.. need to move forward in life and stop playing video games that r made for kids (: well who will win in this uneven battle ;<
Because I want to become a Professional E-Athlete and make loads of money.
Seriously thought, just the skill needed to play QL to actually win compared to a Console FPS.
Drives me mad when someone (When I say someone, I mean every console player on earth) say their amazing at CoD because they got a OK kill in a public game on 300 ping against some people who were just messing about.
pretty much what #14 said: "the percentage of cheeky and smart people that are always ready to make amusing, ironic comments is obviously the highest. Thus it's a sheer pleasure to spend here a quarter or so everyday."
i dont play much anymore but i always loved quake and there are some interesting/amusing threads every now and then + great info about tourneys (DH/IEM etc.)