This would make a good poll.

In a couple months yes

nope. cancelled. they haven't even had an update in 2 months and all the updates to date have been a joke. waiting for brink at this point.

try to be a bit less obvious in your trolling

you should wipe that brown stuff off your nose, it's a bit distracting

is this still ray? you are getting sadder by the minute

what's sad is your blindness towards the problems plaguing this game. If you're not ready to criticize the flaws in the game, then nothing will ever change. You can either join the bandwagon or watch this game die a slow death. So in the end, the sad part will be, waching people like you wonder what happened when all you had to do was open your eyes to the facts and REACT, instead of sitting on your hands and expecting things to change (they haven't for 3 years, so why would they change now). Wake up, it's do or die time for ql.

yeah, i admit, i should be looking forward to brink.

rofl

are you living under a rock?
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quakelive.com&sa=N

QL is dead and buried

whats your point here?
xou was referring to the fact that the minimum subscription lenght is one year, so the time for a poll like this would be around one year after the start...

the point is: look at quake live's population model. It's almost flatlined at it's lowest level ever! You'd be an idiot not to factor that into your buying decision. You can support ql and id all you want but there comes a time when reality sets in. Nothing is gonna change dude, you can keep hoping but :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZdY9rw-uo

are you high?
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are you blind? you must be if you can't see the downward trend in this game.

wow, hi syncherror? you have seen objective numbers?

Just means less people using google to find ql site, most people by now go direct?

its not searches, had a long discussion with verdict about how meaningful those stats are somewhere here on esr, but overall i wouldnt trust it too much although it certainly proofs the tendency

it proves that there are far few "unique users" visiting quake live. Whether they visit direct or from another site is a mute issue. That is google's own analytics data... don't tell me that's wrong too....

already had this discussion...
fact is, google doesnt have the exact numbers

that looks sad :/

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It used to a few years ago, but google does not keep records (at least not public) for sites that don't generate enough traffic.

one month too late ;)

Turned auto renewal off.

Mainly because I haven't played in a while :(

I have no idea. I turned the renewal off yesterday. I'd rather renew it manual in case I wanna keep it than just somedasy forget about it and then let ID take my $$$ for x years. :D

tuned it off aswell although i will probably renew, but what dick move from id to auto enable it without asking :/

Yeah I thought the same. I had actually no idea that it was default untill i read a thread concerning the matter here on ESR.

That's actually an industry standard practice nowadays, so I fault them less for it.

wow is the same :D

Every subscription-based service does this.

does that make it any better?

A dick move would be something that they did on purpose out of spite. This is more just conforming to industry standards.

id may deserve a lot of criticism, but not for this.

i dont know, they pretty much hid any info (is there any?) about auto renewal in the subscription process. so finding out that they would have taken the money from me without any consent makes it look like a rip off.

Is this your first time ever signing up for something with a subscription? Even though they should have told you (and probably did), there's absolutely no reason to have expected otherwise.

yeah it was naive i guess, still it annoys me every time it goes down like this.

Had they used a monthly subscription model, would it have been better for you?

yeah it was naive i guess, still it annoys me every time it goes down like this.

I'm 100% sure it was mentioned when I was subscribing.

Yup me too.

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I Canceled renewal 4 months ago, 1 month ago I deleted my account.
-Lokario/kalimist

No.

Definitely not pro anyway. That's a very, very, very tiny chance I might buy premium, but honestly, the amount of crashes far outweighs the amount of new content updates for me

Premium? premium is completely worthless. Please tell me you're joking.. have you not read anything about this subject in the last 10 months?

I bought premium because I don't need to be able to host my own games. Care to explain me why it's useless?

it's the same anon trying to flame. ignore plz

i feel sorry for your naivity. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. The current system is not working. If it were, you wouldn't see 8/10 people agree on the most common issues plaguing ql.

What's useless with it? #tdmpickup

What premium maps are you playing on. Please point me to the server and the time you play on them. We're talking full premium servers (don't point me to a premium server with 3/4 people).

If you go to #tdmpickup on quakenet there are games going on all day.
Premium maps that are played? Deep inside, Intervention, Purgatory, Realm of Steel Rats,

lol@pickup games. You point to .0005% of the ql population that 1) uses irc or gamesurge and 2) plays pickups on a regular basis. THE AVERAGE QUAKE LIVE PLAYER DOES NOT PLAY PICKUPS. To try to convince me is just foolish.

For a pub player, looking at premium servers, they are empty. They aren't looking at private premium servers because they wouldn't know the password in the first place.

why does everyone has to base his decision on the majority of quake players although when he still enjoys the game and uses the additional features he gets? also realize that the situation in europe isnt as fucked up as it is for na
youre a bitter, ignorant fool tbh

295 people idling in #tdmpickup atm

I'm not trying to convince anyone, just gave answers.
Have a good day.

Um

prem maps I play for a duel comp in aus

aerowalk
hektik

otherwise I wouldn't bother. It is not however, 'useless'.

all i hear is duel, duel, duel. Try to think about the other 80% of ql's userbase. The majority of players on ql are not pros or play competitively (eg: dont' play duel) and opt for teamgames (tdm/ctf/freezetag/insta/ca) or ffa. Those servers are not full. Certainly not FFA/isnta/tdm/ctf/freezetag. Passworded CTF servers might pop up from time to time but overall for the 75% of ql, who play on public servers, they are empty.

I'm not pro, just an average quaker and duel is still the gametype I played the most. you don't have to be pro or want to win tournaments to play (and enjoy playing) duels.

Americans always liked wow and cs more than quake, just cos u have no hardcore community doesnt mean the rest of us dont

#USCPM disagrees with you.

never been anywhere near as active as the eu version

I'll have to if I want to continue playing cups and bundesliga :|

con:
- id doesnt deserve it

pro:
- you need it if you wanna play in any competition
- keeps ql alive

so yes, i will probably renew it, but lets see how it goes down, i could even image id trying to change their business modell

let me fix that for you.

con:
- id doesnt deserve it
- keeps ql alive

pro:
- none.

Can't see any reason why anyone would renew or even downgrade their account except that most of us are tards who can't can't get around the idea of making your own quake mod instead of whining endlessly.
I have to admit that the chance of it happening if ql dies is around 0.00173% but that's still better than 0.000018% with ql being alive.

yeah, just look at how ql killed the vibrant q3 scene

or rather that instead of kicking their asses, people who weren't happy with cpma went to ql ?

Of corse I will renew my subscription and I guess I even got auto-renewal on because I'm totally addicted to Quake ^___________^

ofcourse. What's not to love about ql compared to last year. Here's what you've gained/lost

-removal of leaderboards
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...aderboards
-removal of quickstats
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...re-missing
-removal of tx ranked ca servers
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...restricted
-removal of numerous interntaional servers (singapore, ukraine, s.africa, warsaw,etc)
-removal of support for freezetag. "Oddities may persist in Freeze Tag and will be addressed in the near future." - ya a lot of you forgot about that promise huh.
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...st-31-2010
-empty freezetag servers
-empty premium servers
-dead tdm community (was already dead, but no revival despite the new tdm maps they added last year)
-dying ctf community due to tierslummers,etc
-pre-game ads getting stuck in in7
-games loading 2-3 times causing timeout errors
-lots of awesome downtime producing more bugs
-4 tiers in ca instead of 5
-3 tiers in ctf instead of 4 (there was never 5)
-broken profile stats system (overall acc% wrong on all accnts)
-still no support for macintosh (friends list issues, mouse accel)
-only partial support for chrome (people still have invite system errors)
-lies/broken promises (still no communication from id)
-killbeeps before gtv, paypal for subs, etc. But wait there's more. Soon to come: Full blown color picker!!! oh snap yo i know you're gonna sign up just for that amirite!!!
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...lor-picker
-removal of punkbuster (with no alternative) and the takeover by the botting communties around the web
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...er+removal
-new cylindrical hitboxes but we have 10 year old netcode!!
-newer cylindrical hitboxes + 10% hittable region to more closely mimic the old hitboxes (eg: hitboxes for noobs) and back and forth we go like the sg changes...
-3 shotgun changes to dmg / spread / specific gamemodes
-15 days of twitter posts by sync from 3/22 - 4/05 showcasing his talent for watching vods instead of communicating with the other 99.9% of the community in ql.
-still no autobalance in teamgames and the complete lack of understanding on the subject and it's imporantance for implementation:
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...#post97417
-Lots of awesome recycled Q3 maps since the initial update last aug
-added change country flag so you can pretend to live somewhere and succesfully troll another server. Headlined in the title of the update it came in. That is a "priority"!!
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...ch-15-2011
--no awesome devpicks for months (this might be a good thing)
-increased playerbase!!! amirite yakumo??? oh wait...
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quakelive.com&sa=N
-continued lack of recognition for people in the community who make things id ends up using. Case in point: "we have created some advanced in-game scoreboards " - you didn't make those liars
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...g-Updates\
-facebook like and twitter tweet buttons!! i know you all asked for that one!!
-tiersystem still flawed (almost everyone is in tier 4 for teamgames). "One factoid that we've derived from our data is that the majority of players who 'play down' also belong to the largest populated tier group," - common tier 4 servers can sway from 50-100. (keyword: tier 4 servers).
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...#post97443
-Still no advertising
-Removal of options in the advanced game options menu
-Still no fix for XMPP errors and there will never be:
"no-one has been able to identify what it is on their proprietary settups that is causing it" .
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post133834
-Broken invite system for pro subscribers
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...xed-at-all
-etc etc etc etc do i need to continue. Buy at your own risk, but seriously don't be dumb...

-15 days of twitter posts by sync from 3/22 - 4/05 showcasing his talent for watching vods instead of communicating with the other 99.9% of the community in ql.

hahaha

I guess u are fat and ugly :(

so happy this game is finally going to die.

ok, this is what i dont get. how can you be happy if the game dies? i mean, if you dont want to play it then dont play it. but wishing that game dies (not that it already is sort of a corpse of his former self) is just a really bad attitude. do you hate quake? you are probably playing QL for free and yet you sit her and moan that all the free content that you get is shit and you want to play q3 so bad. either you play it, or you dont. there is no obligation to play the game nor hate.

because then maybe a good quake game gets made or some other developer will step up and do it better. Wont be hard to do based on how ql has been handled. This game is 10 years old, duke nukem forever will make this game look like a joke in comparison.

duke nukem is a different genre. i dont want to hear wise guy jokes from a steroid monster whenever he kills someone. seriously, i even disabled taunt. next time come up with a better comparision :p

but yeah i guess if the community was in charge of QL a community team etc. things would look a lot more different now. but im still not sure if it would attract more people. ;/ if ql were actually to run ads maybe we'd get tons of new players and more competition.

if the community was in charge of ql, it would have 2387 mods, each claimed to be the only true one and none of them having enough players to field any kind of competitive scene

usually one of the problems

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Turned it off in April.

Now I am glued to BRINK, but I would renew my subscription, if they added promode as an option, ladders and new scoreboards for the other gametypes, although id really doesnt deserve it.

ladders and scoreboard. If you think they're adding that then just cancel now cuz its' not gonna happen. Especially promode lol.

I already turned it off I said and I meant I already cancelled, kk? :)

you play brink and you say you only want to play ql with promode? i so dont get this. realistic fps games like brink look boring as fuck to me. id rather play slowmode q3 than that shit.

I'd like to play some clanarena with fast weapon switch and promode for some fun and I never said I wont play quake without promode. I actually play(ed) a lot.

Only because I played a fast FPS doesnt mean I have to play this sort of games forever and btw. Brink -can- be pretty fast, too. Depends on your class and playstyle, but nevermind.

realistic? Brink =/= CoD. :P Go watch some actual gameplay footage.

edit: it's basically TF2 but before TF2 was ruined with the constant "achievement" nonsense.

lol brink is nothing like tf2

and achievements have no impact on tf2s gameplay

By achievements, do you mean items? There are only a few items that you can get (3 items per class) via achievements, they are not special/rare, they take minutes to get, and are not exclusive to achievements.

right, but it's still the main focus of the majority of the players, rather than capping the intel, etc. They don't care if they know which team they're on, as long as they get a new fkn hat.

The only people who care that much about items are the ones who idle on idle servers - I rarely see item whores on real servers, and they leave when nobody will trade with them.

i subscribed in december
the amount of subscribed people will decide whether i'll renew my subscription probably

you should probably take a look at this:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quakelive.com&sa=N

so what game you switching to? you try battlefield yet?
http://www.play4free.com/

people aren't "switching" here. try to understand. it's quake or nothing.

last time i checked, quake 3 is a game and a quake game! and a better quake game than quake live at that. Hell even quake 2 is better at this point.

so gtfo with the brink. going back to something like this is a valid alternative.

true. that is a much better alternative. Hey i'm all for a return to q3 but it's obvious people on esr aren't interested in that unless ql shuts down. Hence why i mentioned brink,, merely for example purposes. I now get less than 70 fps and my ping has increased to 40 on ql so i have to believe everyone else has the same issues. Last year, i had a solid 125 and ping in the 20's.

That is EXACTLY why we will not be provided the number of subscription renewals. I think at least half of the subscribed players shares your attitude. But it will make no difference, the game will wither out in the next year or so.
IMO quake does not deserve to die. id software, as a company, does.

i agree with that wholeheartidly. The problem with ql, lies with its management and the direction given to them by bethesda. New staff and perhaps cutting ties with bethesda could spring new life into this game.

... what? Bethesda hasn't changed a thing at id.

actually, bethesda has made it impossible for the ql team to communicate with its users. They're trying to keep everything hush hush. I'm sure you remember the outcry after syncerror promised , and failed to deliever, a devblog outlining the future of ql (pre-quakecon announcement) ala last march. That failure was due to the fact that he wasnt' allowed to (lillie actually broke that news on irc, i have it saved somewhere in case you want to see). So yes, Bethesda has thrown a lot of wrenches into the operation, most of which are completely unecessary.

No, it was like that long before Bethesda came along.

Well, in the beta days, plenty of dev blogposts were written, by other members of the team who have since left like marty. You're probably right overall, but in regards to the blogposts and communication in ql, that certainly wasn't as big an issue in closed beta or those blog posts wouldnt' have been written.

Beta as in QL beta? Were you even in it? Our biggest complaint was that they WEREN'T communicating, even to closed beta testers!

Actually I should've worded it another way. If I still enjoy the game, and feel I can use the bonuses which come with premium despite the even smaller amount of subscribed people in December, I will renew.
Making premium maps available for everybody and leaving things like scoreboards, callvote teamsize, extended statistics to subscribed people would be a good way to make me feel so.

If they actually get some new good features in the game soon and there's a decent player base left (and university gives me enough time) I will renew.

If the game is in the same state in august as it is now, hell no. Not that the game is broken or doesn't work, but a subscription should mean something.

no chance

Turned auto-renew off already. I might renew though, if some of the much requested features are added (they're requested on here more than enough).

btw when ql had any major update?

"We have the next update in testing atm and plan on having it released at the end of this month." - Syncerror
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post134137

Last update , March 15, 2011.

if they update May 31st, 20011 that would have equaled 2 1/2 months since the last update.

well, it better be fucking good

thx esr i forgot to cancel renew :D

will probably renew, i expect a pretty large update a couple of weeks befor the subscription year is over, because thats the smart thing for id to do, even if they do have the stuff finished by now.

if they release any large update now, people will be unsatisfied by august and say 'we haven't had a good update in monthy, will not renew my subscription'. if i were id, i'd wait for september to release any not map-related content.

I instantly canceled renew after I purchased Pro. I'm not going to renew unless they're going to actually update the game for once. Money spent on nothing.

i suspect id is going to do multiple updates with some decent content in terms of maps before qcon. not that this changes anything drastically.

still disappointed in their overall approach to ql. i really thought theyd add a lot more web content as well as explore other modes such as defrag etc to keep players, especially lower tier beginners interested in the game. but it seems theyre just not that committed to the project or have constraints going on in the background in terms of staffing/funding.

that said ill prolly still renew my prem account since ql is the only reasonably competitive deathmatch game.

No renewal. I'm better off with spending that money on a gameserver for Q3 or Q4, heck i'd even go mindcraft! Atleast then I get a game suited for my needs and not a game barfed up while sitting on the toilet thinking about 2girls1cup.

What is the point of having forums and PR people when what you get is the same old things and every feedback you give is neglected. Forums is atm in gaming a place to get neglect written down for history of copy paste of 'It was mentioned here'

I will probably renew the subscription. Even if a lot of things do not work the way they should, this game is still what entertains me most online.

yeah the entertainment it brings me is certainly worth it but it has a shallow taste when you see how much more you would expect

what subscription?

this^

They appear to have abandoned the game now. No news of updates. I won't be renewing.

your a sheep

what about his a sheep?

baa ram u

BOOM!

I your daddy, i'm sorry sone :(

already turned off renew, but will probably renew because it's only $22 or whatever, depends on what my schedule looks like at that time, if i'm busy enough then hell no i'm not giving them money for no reason

i dont think so. the increased hitbox size took away my drive to play

Second time now within a month since their datacenter "upgrade" the site/game has taken a shit. GG.

I've been a standard user so far and no, there still isn't nothing to compel me to go prem/pro. Gonna take more than some maps I've played hundreds if not thousands of times over the years and a few useless cvars as "features" to get me to sign up.

The only reason I'm not, and didn't have one to begin with, is that my internet connection is too shit for a real FPS game. Sorry ID.

:(

I've experienced more ads than usual though. :)

It's cheap enough that I'll most likely renew.

QL dev team is a bunch of LIAR.

And I HATE LIAR.

So no i won't renew.

Surely id had done a lot of downright idiotic moves, but please elaborate on them lying.

I'll probably renew, I like that fact that I can spawn a server for me and my duelling pals without getting interupted on pub servers, the abilty to /timeout, /pause - we'll see in august.

Premium isn't really worth it for me, either I go pro or stick to standard. Ads don't bother me that much and playing empty maps isn't worth 20€

you want him to eleborate on that? seriously?

-still no communication
-still no fixes for freezetag
-still no mac/chrome support
-no monthly updates
-etc etc

those are some of the promises made last year by id staff.

one big lie can certainly be equated to their claim that "easily play against others at your skill level". That is a lie based on the current lack of players on ql. They reduced tiers to compensate for that. They should have removed that "gimmick" from their front page. Instead they coax new users into quake live with that premise, a false premise based on the current skillmatching system. That can further be exemplified by proof like this:

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/will...erver2.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh162/will...erver1.jpg

Screenshots taken by a tier 3 ctf player (vogelsang)
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post134156
Which shows that tier 4 players can play in tier 2 ctf games. There's no way a situation like that can be skillmatched and thus, "easily play against others at YOUR skill level" is a lie.

Did Syncerror ban you for flaming him or something?

You sound really butthurt.

There aren't many games I like that I can play at ANY time of the day or night and still find more than enough servers and players to have some fun.

if you think that analytics data is based on people jumping on google first then you really don't understand it.

yeah just read earlier posts and it's apparently not what I thought it was

Why do u care? What does it matter to you if ppl like ql? There is hundreds of games out there that doesnt appeal to me, but i dont feel the need to go on a crusade..

chrome works with QL.

If I still have time to play, I will probably renew.
Not like it's a lot of money for the time I play.

I will be renewing. It's extremely cheap considering I probably play more than 10 hours a month.

Indeed. I'm definately renewing.

renewing

why? because you're addicted? lol

LOL!

Not pro for sure, nothing was given to pro users, so the money it involve isn't worth it in my case.

Perhaps premium, coz' i love quake and want to be able to play all the map without asking a friend.

I get more fun reading the whines of lost gaming addicts on ESR than playing quakelive.

ON NOES!! MY TEN YEAR OLD COMPUTA GAMEZ IS SUCKEN!

What will I do to pass the time of day!!!!

trollin on forums obv :o

i love simple minded humans like you who don't have the intelligence to argue a point constructively and resort to replies like:

-u mad
-they trollin, etc
-whine moar

but i did lol a little

humans *sigh* ¬¬

will do so with the announcement of duel ladder(s) :D

^ this

I still think that 50€/year is a fair deal for being able to spawn a server whenever I want. Premium is lame, standard is horrible (watching ads before match? lolgottabekiddingme). If people are still playing QL in August I gonna renew my pro sub.

no. hardly anyone i know that signed up with me last year still plays, and i hardly play it anymore myself with all the bugs every update. 30 fps ftl

I would renew, but again with who am I going to play with if there won't be many prem/pro users? Even now I can hardly find a good (my skill) opponent , and it takes so long.

I often have to play with players (way) below and I don't like that. I don't like to take from them enjoyment of the game by beating them quite badly. But then again, when/if I have some time to play games, I won't be wasting 10-20 min just to search for right opponent to play a 10 min duel game. Then again if I join an empty server often no one joins in even after 5-10 min, which makes me wanna quit and do something else asap.

The worst part is that I'm an ass in those newbs eyes, ruining their experience (not that I care much), just because there aren't enough players in the fucking game.

I've always loved the game and been defending it for quite a bit, but Quake is on a downfall, everything is fucking slow and boring, nothing is going on, pros don't care, casuals don't care, id doesn't, tournaments don't care, the community is a fucking zombie land and ESR is huge graveyard. I'm spending more of my online time on TL than here, because here is literally nothing going on for months. Fuck you. And fuck you too.

d r e a m h a c k

he's going to play with the 50-100 people playing in dreamhack? wow..... your world is so narrowminded i can't even bother to respond to your comments anymore if you think that constitutes the majority of the playerbase on ql.

I have no interest in the majority of the playerbase. I don't hope QL becomes a major e-sport with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes and spectators filling up stadiums.

No, what I want is a reasonable niche community which can pay for LAN travel and a modest prize for some of the best players. I do not want a game where you have to remove a cigar from a player model (which you seem to think is the right way to go).

e: and I said "dreamhack" because that event might draw some attention to TDM and such which could result in a few more clans and a few active divisions in TDM leagues

That's something you can't have, since it's a subscription service. When they do decide to shut it down, you won't be able to play it at all, since there is no way to host your own server.

Perhaps q3 will have a chance, then.

If you want Q3 to succeed, you first need to kill off quake live. Keeping ql small only ensures q3 will remain small. So your logic doesn't add up there. Otherwise the same players who left q3 to go to ql will just go back, but that wasn't enough people to keep the game going.

I'm not complaining about the number of players. There is always a ca server to pop in to and tdm pickups are going on all the time.

fair enough, but again, pickups won't keep this game alive, it will only ensure the niche community lives on (but eventually people will move on from that community as well and then what - no new quake title, since it was unsuccessfull (in turning players into profit in quake live)

I think it's more important we voice to id that things have to change (or they'll keep the mindset you have, and keep it nichelike as well, which is fun for now, but when the noobs are gone (eg: no casual community) who you going to pwn on days when you just want to log on and frag. It will just turn into another dead q3 like community. We might as well all go back to quake 3 now then.

It would have, if the community had stood together before QL. The demise of QL will leave us with half of what we had in Q3 before QL came out, if we're lucky.

I think you're misinformed.

It isn't Quake Live's fault. If we stuck with Quake 3 we too would have seen diminishing player counts as people realize that Quake is 10+ years old and move on to newer games or have real life commitments.

To blame the death of fast-paced deathmatch on Quake Live is wrong. It's an overall market trend and to be honest, I think a free to play game such as Quake Live has SLOWED that trend down considerably.

There are quite a few players such as myself who actually started playing Quake with the release of Quake Live.

The problem with Q3 was the playerbase. Quake has almost as many denominations as Christianity, and every single one of them is sure that they are the only one that should be used. Quake 3 doesn't have mass appeal anyway, but a fractured community only helps to destroy it.

Unlike Q3, you can't simply move to a different mod when a lesser denomination dies out. Rather than trying to play your cards over a long period of time, the Quake community has decided to all-in blind. How many of the NEW players who came in with QL are actually going to go out and buy Q3 when the game is shut down? How many long time players from Q3 are going to go back after such a crushing blow? Who is going to pay to host a server? The last of Q3 will die out as the remaining fanboys find ever more petty reasons to segregate what little they have left.

I didn't blame QL on the death of fast-paced deathmatch - that would be silly. Even UT sells exponentially more copies, so QL is barely even a blip on the radar. While fast-paced deathmatch games do have an issue with market, it doesn't change the fact that QL has helped to kill what little market was left.

How many of the NEW players who came in with QL are actually going to go out and buy Q3 when the game is shut down?

You don't need to buy q3.

How many long time players from Q3 are going to go back after such a crushing blow? Who is going to pay to host a server? The last of Q3 will die out as the remaining fanboys find ever more petty reasons to segregate what little they have left.

So in your opinion everybody who has spent a large amount of time playing quake will just stop gaming altogether?

Your average casual gamer isn't going to go out of his way to pirate Q3 - he's going to go pirate something like Crysis 2.

I didn't say that they'd quit gaming, but that they would quit Quake. There are more than enough games to fill the void.

Like?

Like any other game.

What fps deathmatch is popular nowadays?

Quitting Quake does not mean that you have to play another FPS DM game. Those who only play FPS will likely move to something like CS/brink/TF2/COD. Those who played for competition (0.01%) will likely move to SC/SC2. Those who absolutely refuse to play anything but Quake-style DM games will either move to UT, or play Q3 - probably even the minority among ESR readers. Those who simply enjoy playing games in general will have no issues finding a new game, and likely already have.

i too started playing quake again due to quake live. I had taken a 10 year hiatus (played q2 before that), but quake live has made me completely give up on quake due to the actions of id software. I have seen the subscription model they used in other communities (not gaming related), one of which, now charges 89.99$ a month (was free). I kid you not. And that's just within the past 2 years.

Now ask yourself. Do you really think id is happy making 1-4 dollars a month off prem/pro subs? no, so there's a high likelyhood that they'll increase the price come this august. Some of you have totally forgotten that possibility, a real possibility (and that trend will continue every year to come.

id probably figures that the people who will renew, will renew at any price because they're addicted, are having fun (now at least), or have nothing else going on in their lives (and all their friends are on ql), or are rich and can afford any pricepoint thrown at them. But, main criteria they use will probably be #1.5 (they are addicted "to the fun").

I do think vedic is informed (not misinformed as you put it), but he's coming from a different perspective, as am i, and as are you. But in the end, no matter where our interest lay (pickups, competitions, clans, duel, ctf, leagues, etc), the goal, for those of us who want to relive the glory days of quake, is to ensure quake continues, albeit with a different development team and perhaps a different genre (it's possible quake has to morph into something that reflects current shooters, but in a way that keeps the game feeling like we know it).

The new generation of gamers are obviously not keen on the fast pace of things in ql, but with a few changes, they could perhaps learn to adjust (keeping things as they were in q3 will just create the same result as we're witnessing now). And that is personally my main argument against the "niche" players (who want to keep it small) which will only create the same scenario we've seen in q3 (small community > slow decline year in year out, as a small community = very narrow minded view of the game, eg: not open to many changes (changes necessary to keep things going and progressing forward).

Something, the quake community seems unable to comprehend (that quake as a genre is outdated), is that CHANGE HAS TO HAPPEN. Any talk of change is obviously met with an outcry of hatred (as witnessed anytime i speak of making changes to the game), but it IS NECESSARY (for quake to continue). .

In conclusion, i agree with your assesment (that quake live wasn't necessarily the only culprit for the demise of q3 (and that it was already written in stone (q3's decline), due to the new movement of pc shooters, but vedic is correct in the sense that the announcement of quake live killed off any hopes of a q3 revival (not saying it would have happened but well that's what happened).

Quake live shouldn't have been announced in 2007 for numerous reasons (mainly the fact that it is still bugged to hell). Instead, it should have been worked on and stayed in closed beta till it was ready, while a true successor to quake 3 should have been made in its place. Then, perhaps, with the lessons learned in that new quake game (we'll call it quake 5) its improvements could have been carried over to quake live (we'll call it quake 6, since that's the order it would (should) have been released in.

Bottom line, Quake live was preconceived and released far before its time. Simply put, it wasn't ready and it shows. Now people are left with a bad taste in their mouth and have found a general distrust in id and question their overall abilities (even if the truth lies somewhere between a small dev team/restrictions) and that is exactly the problem here; we have a vitriol of emotions over what we all came to love (a new quake game) but its general decline due to a complete lack of understanding and direction on the part of id and bethesda.

This is in fact the first community i've ever been a part of (not talking about esr) where input has been almost completely ignored by its development team (id) and where the community has been unable to participate and improve on the game (w/ few exceptions / new premium scoreboard, some new maps). It will take the community as a whole to fix the outlined problems and morph the game into something the "masses" will acknowledge and accept. Keeping it niche like, to satisfy the old school quakers, will do the exact opposite (will bury this game and the genre (quake) as a whole.

/end novel (thanks for reading (the 2 of you who did))

That NICHE community IS Quake 3. Soon you'll have that in QL too. Congratulations. No wonder you think everything is doing "fine" . You like the fact that ql is dying so it can get smaller, eg: nichelike. But, that is very risky, as it alllows another game, calling itself the future of quake, to come in and sweep all those users up only to repeat what happened 2 years ago with quake live killing quake 3 in the process. It can happen again but i guess it doens't matter to you so long as the next game stays nichelike as well.

I don't care how big or small the community is unless it starts to interfere with the way the game is. Too little people and you don't have anybody to play with, too many and you get teamliquid.

raythenoob, please fuck off. Nobody cares that they banned you from being an admin or whatever the fuck they did to you. I'm starting to think they did the right thing, u seem completely fucking crazy. LOL

You don't know the reasons for the ban, you may think you do, but you don't and i'm telling you now, they're more closely related to me speakign my mind about the incubus situation, someting i don't regret as he's only continued to prove my point (that it will kill the na ctf pub scene) as witnessed (by lack of ctf games in na these days).

btw: i approve of your trolling (have seen your other threads), but xtruder was the greatest troll of all time yo, of all time.

yeah but how you want to fill the time inbetween? :p

Get the #ql.1v1 channel up and running?

As for spectating, there were really epic games between xt and bf just yesterday.

link to vod please?

http://www.justin.tv/leveluptv/b/286231619 lazy faggot

starts at ~16

thanks for the link, fuck you for the insult :)

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instead of realizing you were blessed with an opportunity to improve your game... you quit. i really really wish the old quake community (and their spirit in regards of competing) would come back.

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Next time I see you on an empty server I will join!

:-*

Absolutely NOT

Premium/Pro is a joke and is only usefull if you play leagues.

And maybe a few peeps are gonna renew their subscription but let's be honest, this game doesnt attract anyone new anymore, and since the prem pool will be even smaller than it already is, I dont see how they can survive.

THEY FAILED on every single thing that was asked by the community, no ladder, no nothing.

Obligatory liam joke

Are you calling me a nigger?

PICTURENATWORKREUPLOADED

i just spilled my coffee all over the keyboard. thanks :)

sexy

Logged just in and wtf?? When I try to see stats of my played games there comes popup that says I should buy premium or pro account.
Don't think I will log in again for long time.

feature standard - premium - pro
Extended Match History 28 Days 6 Months 1 Year


if you want access match history from longer than a month ago you need a subscription

someone shouldnt' have to pay for stats, that's ridiculous.

GTV, ladders, a functional skill-matching/stats system and mod-support. The basic system is great... it's easy to download, install the game and start playing. Everything past there can be questioned. If people could mod, they could add things like GTV and in-system ladders. That's how it's always been... Id has never provided GTV or ladders, it's always been done by modders. If the ladders were modded directly into the system (as opposed to being part of a third-party website), they would be more effective.

Id should tear down the Berlin Wall of modding. Let the modders in, let them mod, and we wouldn't need id to do much more than bugfixing.

GTV
awww
so much love
in this one word
i miss the fun flood chat
will be never the same again

I will if I wont quit the game at all by that date. But it's gonna be premium not pro as now. Also this is not big money to spend on a favorite game.

Of course i'll renew my Premium subscription, i plan to play the next OpenCup in fall!

I'd consider buying one now, if it was possible to buy for a few months.

BOYCOTT IT!

Someone set up a network of servers and a donation page....

QUAKE 3 CPM/OSP whatever is best and we make our own community back on irc!?


Plan?!


/me looks into running servers!

keep us updated :)

#edawn

this!

I'll probably forget to take subs off so will end up paying, but its only what £18? so no biggy.

shame most of you are on welfare or students

Other anon seems to hate QL.

I don't hate QL, but it's dead. I used to think it was Id's fault, but now I realize the genre is dead. People want more modern games, and those who liked Quake have grown up.

I've been a part of far too many dying communities to want to stick around and watch this game go down the same path.

I'd rather join a newer more populated game. I bought Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 2. Going to buy Battlefield 3.

i dont hate ql. i dislike the development team and their "elitism" attitude towards the community and the direction they are taking this game. if i hated quake i wouldn't bother posting here; this is after all a quake site. But youre' right on your other point: its' dead/dying and yes they dont' care. If they did they would certainly be trying to convince people that the best is yet to come. But as many have said, they spend maybe 30 minutes developing this game every day which is evident by the fact that they have no time for anyone on their official forum. I point again, to the post made by stownr (not just a volunteer mod, but also close friend of theirs), who wasnt' even aware kickbans don't work. Don't disregard that little factoid. It's little things like that which prove how out of touch they are with the current state of the game. They aren't around enough to be able to differentiate the differences between the arguments for and/or against quake live and it's faults. They just chalk it up as whine instead of weighing the change in mood from a year ago.

For me, i've noticed little things such as:

-the clan forum front page spans 4-5 days on average (last year this time it spanned 1-2 days).
-The general discussion forum used to span abuot 2-3 pages a day. Now just a little over a page.
-getting started is only at around 15 pages (after almost a year). it was at like 100 after just 4 months in 2009.

Those are notable differences. Some can say, "well people are just posting less", but i would disagree. It proves there's less people coming into the game (as newbies are generally the ones posting on the forum). That level of attrition is having its effect ingame as well.

My posting style is combative, but it is constructive and i am fair in my points. If i agree with you, i will point that out. So i urge you to look at the entire spectrum of issues discussed in this topic and in others alike in nature before judging me. Again, i don't hate quake, but it's certainly not the quake i'm accustomed to in years past, certainly not the same development team who used to be in the forefront of the gaming industry and regularly attended Q&A sessions.

There has never even been an official Q&A session for QL, unless you count their question and answer sessions on radio tv online a couple years ago. But those were random questions asked by people who were there first and foremost to see some public king of the mountain matchups, and the devs simply decided to stick around and answer a few before heading out. Certainly nothing official since the original Q&A's when the game was announced to open out of closed beta (and those were sit down interviews, hardly a live Q&A session.

So then what do you suggest we do?

Like I said before I've been a part of a lot of dying communities, and I don't think I've ever seen a dying game suddenly revive itself. So at this point it's my opinion that Quake Live is doomed.

I expect the dying to accelerate once IEM is canceled.

That's the problem. Id has let the opportunity to redeem itself go by. If only they would have kept their word and stuck with the promises they alloted to at quakecon 2010 then things might not have turned out this way. We certainly know rage and brink had something to do with their lack of development on ql, and that's a sad set of circumstances. By the time any funds come in from rage, people will have forgotten about ql and moved on. So yes it's a ballgame. I suspect quakecon to be much smaller in nature this year and we'll certainly see much less fanfare than years past.

Brink was Splash Damage, not id.

No. not because of the money, don't mean to sound arrogant but 20 or 50 bucks isnt much for me. It's because ID have completetly neglected Israel. They have been promising Israeli server for 2 years and it's obviously not going to happen. ID basically killed the Israeli quake commnuity. BTW, I still think PUtting Israeli servers up would benefit them.

I'd rather take my 50$ and use them to make a cpma/vq3 tourney, which is atleast playable with my ping.

Fuck ID
Fuck Israel (ID more though =p)

just /ragequit Israel and go to live in a more decent country ;P

that's pretty racist and makes no sense since he has a valid argument.

look up the definition of racist and make an account

prejudice'd... w/e next

There was nothing racist in my comment, nor did I take the piss off Israel. It was only a quick joke and by "a more decent country" I meant one better for gaming, and nothing else.

Even though to be honest I wouldn't like to live in Israel (and yes I've been there).

Have your community provided server and an isp for it?

israel is a country?
according to UNO it is not.

I do not support my country and its poltical values. Infact I think Israel a war mongering country but that has nothing to do with quake live server. =p. There were a few arab players too And we all got along just fine. there was a big community of Circassian players aswell. Racism was present with some tdm teams, But overall we would get along.
it was a good community, alot of competition at times too and I played in some 2v2 with fiend, who is circiassian, in some 2v2 nations cup.
i hope our country would stop ocupying what isn't ours and that there will be two states.
But w/e this just goes that can all get along peacefully. Fuck ID.

nice insights :)

Good lord, you're being far too sensible for ESR. Begone!

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If I had a european pass port I would fuck off tommarow. I'm sure many others would aswell, but I guess UN are too stupid to think of that.

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i just bought a premium subscription, and for now its okay for me. Renewal is off until they come up with all the crap they've been promising, because maps alone are not worth 2.99 a month.

Clan features, ladders, rankings ftw

you find any premium servers yet :p

yeah same here, I turned off renewal aswell. not because it's too much money. just because I'm unstatisfied with the updates and the development of ql.
Don't get me wrong I would pay double the price if they would implement things which we are asking for. An Anti-cheat, a working skill matching system, cpm movement, fixing invite system ... only to mention a few.
Let's see what the next update brings :)

Counted peoples thoughts in comments

Yes- 23%
No - 35%
No unless more content - 17%
I don't know - 25%

Or in short

Yes - 23%
No - 52%
I don't know - 25%

ID will increase the prize... so just the hardcore addicted ql gamers will pay. To make it even worse they will put a 2nd ad before entering server so every free user will get f.... even more

its just a vision but it would fit ID's strategy

not sure about the 2nd advert.. but i definetely agree that they'll raise the price so people. it's a real possibility based on market trends (how other companies deal with month-to-month subscription models (based on the ideal, that most people will only play or sign up to something for about 2 years).

Also, I don't believe the whole "QL or nothing".

You really think people would just stop? It's made it this far, all it would take is some servers either running CPMA or eDawn, and people would play.

If anything I think tournament organizers would be more inclined to use Quake 3, since the LAN server is easily available to anyone, there's GTV, we can play any maps, etc.

I'm not hoping for QL to die, I'm just saying that I think it's unlikely that if it were to die, we'd be left with nothing.

In Australia QL is always popular :) - There has never been a DM game more popular than QL.

Wrong.

Quakeworld, Q2 and Q3 (in Australia) were all far more popular then Quakelive has ever been.

I won't be renewing until decent CTF maps are released...

Even then I probably won't because the vast majority of pub players insist on joining the free servers even though most of them have premium or pro subscriptions.

Agree with this (although not everyone has premium/pro), what's the point in having premium if everyone only plays standard maps because that's where all the newbs join and then everyone else joins on them.
Stick to standard and install the ad skipping tool (or whatever its called).

i dont want to renew it... because i didnt even buy it ( yues fuck u tards i win u all ). i have ze money, but i dont buy it from princips because syncerror talking bad to his clients ( read as kings ). Bad community manager - less money for the firma

I agree. Syncerror should be replaced. He's the manager of the game so he bears all responsibility for its failure. He's also been the one making the promises and then going back on his word. I too won't renew for that one reason alone. If someone else takes over ql i might consider it.

its apparent australia and us are in a dire lack of organization

I think 4SeasonsGaming are doing a great job in Australia

for duel maybe

I've played Q3 TDM for about six years. dm6, dm7, dm14, osp5, osp6, cpm4 only. Hardly any updates. When everyone switched to vq3 we had netcode and sound modifications but still played the same game on the same maps.

Yes, ID software doesn't get everything right and they don't seem to put in much effort but honestly, the game's actually alright! I play QL TDM. dm14, osp5, osp6, cpm4, dreadfulplace, purgatoy, hiddenfortress, only. Hardly any updates. Enough for me and what I am used to.

I value not by updates but by the amount of hours I can enjoy the game and the capabilities it brings. While I had to pay a gameserver in q3 I can now pay a pro account, and I pay 50Euros a year and try to play TDM with my team, five days a week, 2-3 hours each. I'm a clanleader so I pay pro, my team pays premium. Enough for me.

Here's the REAL update "we" need:

-- More real competitive play and respect rather than casual public CA, statswhoring and comparing dicksizes (even within clans).

-- Less pickups and more clan acitivity. More identification with a clan, more "friendship".

-- More voluntary actions. Stop whining about how bad the game is (that you play 24/7 nevertheless) or how bad the community is and play more, be nice to newcomers, try to help people out, put in some effort into organization and evolution of your clan.

-- Also, we need more voluntary admins. The recent problem with the OC playoffs in CB have shown that there is hardly any connection between the players and the league platforms anymore. Praise PerpetualWar and doz3r who are running from ESL to ESH to CB and back in order to get some competition going for us! We need more admins than those two!

-- More admins bring: More official games, more cups and leagues. Also for lower div teams. Makes identificiation with and effort for a clan worth the time.

For that (and QL that imo could just stay as it is), I would pay.

I will renew my subscription if this community manages to save itself.

would just like to add: more tier lvls.

no tiers at all, no longterm stats at all

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QUAKELIVE LIVES

i pluss'd your thread por0s1ty. :)

btw: smf, your post sounds like one written by a developer.
According to you:

-it's the consumer's fault there's no paypal
-it's esr's fault for not being more mature
-it's the fault of the players who don't invest more time into the game
-its' not id's fault

i wanna see a manager tell me that to my face next time i walk into a walmart store and complain to him his pricetag is wrong when i reached the registers.

newsflash: the consumer is always right, that's business 101. It's not our job to create leagues, leaderboards, ladders, fairplay (name me one game where people play fair without cheats lololol). It's the responsibility of the company (id) to do that. You got it all backwards.

First of all, I said that QL isn't perfect. However, I think it is good enough! If any of what you just mentioned is id's fault, it's lack of paypal... which is their business which I do not care about at all. What I care for is the game and as I pointed out I think the game itself is good as it is, quite enjoyable tbh.

The biggest problem these days is that there is a forum attached to the site itself and people come in and want to spam suggestions and feel pissed when nothing happens. Newsflash: In OSP there was no update in ages and people suggested tons of things that never happened. And still people liked the game, they didn't even care.

The most important thing you understood wrong may be because you are not from europe. I suggest you read up on league systems like Jolt leage where it was -- because of lack of admins within the community -- each clan had to provide one player as an voluntary part-time admin.
Right now we have only one active league, clanbase. It has two admins for TDM and both are voluntary admins who work their asses off for the community.

None of this has to do with the quality of the game or the company that makes it. And again, it isnt perfect but its definitely good enough imHo.

Fair enough, I'm glad "YOU" are having a great time on QL. However 23,000 people disagreed with that assesment since quakecon 2010. So, "your" perception of the game is obviously in the minority. As that 23,000 includes any new players that came into the game. In other words. If 10,000 new people joined ql last quakecon (when there were 78,000), then 10,000 of those new players left the game + 55,000 of the existing players. Now you tell me: are things progressing or going backwards.

I don't doubt that volunteer admins would help the "competitive" scene, but the problems with this game lie overall within the "direction" the game has taken (eg: flawed subscription model). That is what has to change or the downward trend will just continue.

So in conclusion: while your overall view is good, it will only affect a small portion of the playerbase (those in leagues, clans, competitive players), it will not however, please the masses who are "NOT FINE" with the game, especially those "not in europe".

So: your update which calls for:

-More real competitive play and respect rather than casual public CA, statswhoring and comparing dicksizes (even within clans).
-- Less pickups and more clan acitivity.
-- Better clan leadership and promote fair play
--Additonal Voluntary league admins

speaks to clans.... it does not change any of the underlying issues with the game itself, and again that "community togetherness" is not the problem, the problem is, people in general (if speaking about clans) are not joining clans because:

-no leaderboard
-no ladders
-no GTV
-little clan features for subscribers
-no working (buggy) chatbox (local only - not global like in Wow; eg, meaning you can talk to friends in game (even if your'e not in game))

those are the features people want, especially those seeking to play in clans. That's the whole point of joining clans. So the whole point i'm making is, people in general are dissatisfied with the competitive features in quake live and thus, don't take clans, leagues, etc "seriously". That perception will change if the "direction" ql is going, changes. Get it? Id has to change that perception by implementing the features people have been asking for... this can't be rocket science to you...

and if you think clans are increasing, think again. The current quakelive.com forum clan page spans 3-5 days on the first page. Meaning: the first post (made today: eg, march 23) to the bottom post in that first page (if viewing in ascending order) spans to march 20 (in this case 3 days). On the old forum it spanned 1 day (meaning every single post made on that first page of the clan forums were made all in one day). In lamens: there are far fewer people joining clans or have interest in joining clans. Which also speaks volumes since new players to the game are usually the ones interested in joining a clan in the first place.

Those are the real reasons people aren't committing themselves to clans, not because the existing clans aren't serious enough(although the reason they're not serious enough is due to the 4 points i made)... understand?

This isn't autobalanced Black Ops public FFA and it never has been.
When I started a couple of years ago in q3 it was already a highly competitive game with a highly competitive community. I played enough public to be good enough to find me my first clan and slowly evolved. This step involved gettin to know the leagues there were, learning about and getting IRC, voicetools etc.

I put something in and got something out. That's how it works.

All the features you mentioned are additional, "nice to have". No one really needs them because the stuff is already there. Motivated streamers and commentators and league sites, irc,...

The game itself is just some game... what once made it awesome was a nice community where people helped each other out and did voluntary work to get stuff going. Thus, the problem lies not with the automated system (this ql site) but the lack of manpower. And you can't honestly want ID to hire admins to organize cups and stuff (other than qcon :P).

Last but not least: This obviously isn't the perfect game for the casual (3months per game) gamers who want the best graphics and don't want to put in any effort at all. Either the skilled members of the community manage to attract newcomers (who want to put in effort) by giving advice and being nice or the community will be the same. But the casual gamers are not a real part of the real community anway, imo. Thus, I do not care about most things you said.

i do agree that a community of skilled members who attract newcomers by giving advice and being nice will help the game. But as it stands now, the newcomer isn't lasting long enough for that process to reveal itself.

I do agree that small niche communities help foster growth in clans and leagues, but you're forgetting one important element:

ID no longer wants to keep quake a "community" game. The subscription model proves that. They want to make money at this point. They are only looking for their best interests, especially since zenimax/bethesda are the ones funding the game at the moment. What do you think will happen when zenimax doesn't get back the 1,000,000 they invested in this game last christmas?

They'll pull the plug dude....

All it proves is that they try to keep it at a "self sustaining" level. Do you really think that ID planned to make a huge pile of money with quake 3 in a browser?

This game is a case study for a more or less new business model in computer gaming. And thus far I am sure it was an epic fail from a financial standpoint. All we -- the community -- can try to do, if we love the game (so not you obviously), is to keep it at such a self sustaining level by paying up if we think our playtime is worth the money and by organizing interesting competitions, for example, as voluntary admins in leagues.

people are smarter than you think. You can come up to them with a brilliant script and convince them it's worth paying for, and they might, but in the end, they'll be even more frustrated when they realize they didn't get what they were promised. It's that exact attitude that has caused so many to rage this game. There's no transparency, and more "lies" like the on you are referring to: will only regenerate the same result... again....

It's time Id gets honest with its players. That there's no true skillmatching system and that they don't have the time to fix it (for example, too lazy to write other examples, but you get the idea).

The problem isn't with the game. The game was doing fine pre-quakecon 2010. The graph i posted proves that. 78,000+ etc. The problem since, has been, and continues to be due to the subscription model; more so in the way it was implemented and in the way it restricts people to pay (no month-to-month, no paypal, etc). Again, its' the subscription model that needs altering. Not the game necessarily. I've certainly never agreed to a thousand shotgun changes, hitbox changes. They should just keep things as is and people will adapt.

No, its' the subscription model that is fatally flawed for a number of reasons that i dont' want to get into now (i will though, perhaps in my next reply if you continue to see it your way, since we're not arguing the way "i" want it, but the way the majority of players want it. It's that majority i keep oointing to that will save this game.

This is not about business models. ID could also decide to have only standard and premium and no pro or standard players could play everything but only for ten minutes straight on a server or premium members would receive purple rubber ducks. It's their business. You have stated the business 101. Tell you another rule: A company makes an offer and if you don't like it you go somewhere else.

In this thread the question was merely if people will pay another year for this game and I pointed out what's important for me to renew my subscription, because I'm sick of people being consumer only and always complain. In Q3 OSP I have seen what a good community can do even if the mod is not longer maintained, patched and improved at all.

If this company, their product or their business model is not for you, don't hesitate to go somehwere else. Was nice talking to you.

i agree with some of what you said, but their business model will closely choose the fate of the quake franchise. There's a lot riding in their decisions. They made a huge blunder last year at quakecon with the subscription model, that you have to realize has failed to produce the players, interest and revenue they hoped for.

People will pay for a service if they feel it's warranted. Read the last 3 pages of the following link (starting with sixty-five's comment at the bottom) and you'll understand why more people aren't subscribing:
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...e.../page2

btw: also notice sponge locked the topic just now. Coincidence, i think not. Again, you see how id sweeps things under the rug. 100 bucks says they move that topic to the focus group subforum (invisible). If they do, let me know, i screenshotted every post.

do you think your mother doesn't lie to you when she says she is proud of you?

I don't read your comments by now, but why don't you become the 23,001th player who left and gtfo?

i'm trying to keep things interesting for you. Otherwise you'll get bored and /wrist

Yes I will, no doubt about it, even if I play something like 1 hour a week...

no.

if dm6 stays in the map pool, i will renew, yes.

dm6 4eva <3<3<3

To renew would mean that I bought it in the first place. Poor id

Here's some arguments against subscribing, Great read.
:
- http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post129077
What i've been saying for years now, he summed up real well there.

- http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post135126
Q3 Rented servers > Ql Dedicated servers

Funny they locked the second link :DDDD

BTW, best server provider out there; MaverickServers.

yup sponge came to yakumo's rescue :)

Probably not.

I think 60% will renew. Some people don't learn the first time that is. In 2012 however...

get the fuck out of here