hmm i want to upgrade from premium to pro account but its still going to cost me £26 =(

Sub Total £28.62
Upgrade Discount £2.39
Estimated Total £26.23

I just made a new account to see what normal price is... Sub Total £28.62 - wheres these savings?

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or you just buy premium... which is less than me having to upgrade

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can you not read... Estimated Total £26.23

its £1.19 for premium a month so itll cost you like £13-14

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Get a room you two.

NO WINDOWS!

It's exactly how you described it.

That's why skint got "upgrade discount" - he still has 2 months of premium left, so that value was discounted from the pro subscription.

All prices are reduced now.

Whether you're new player or upgrading, you just get the lower price, there's no "normal" price anywhere anymore.

I assume normal price in pounds is £1,59/£3,18 which makes it £19,08/£38,16 for a year. In dollars/euro it's 1,99/3,99 and I can already see 1,49/2,99 right there on Go Premium site.

exactly the same for me - pretty shite discount if you ask me considering...

why would anyone buy it if he doesnt play pickups or cups? the premium servers are totally empty, a few duel ones and thats it.

Nope, there are plenty of premium ca dm6/overkill servers

For duelers its pretty mandatory to have premium!

because if you don't have premium all you can play is clan arena on shitty maps and a&d sampler

That's basically the NA even with premium, or at least was the last time I played. I highly doubt it's changed.

things are starting to get just as bad on europe servers with a few exceptions. :(

CA servers are full in normal hours (I'd say 3/4 of a day). You can find a premium duel any time day and night.
ffa is empty :-(
Pub tdm unfortunately is dead (premium as well as free) but pickups are alive and kicking and there are newcomers. You can also try without premium to decide if tdm pickups are good for you - just ask someone to invite you before adding.
Dunno about ctf.

My hope on christmas sales

New subscription model:

- Pro
- Premium
- ZTN
- Standard

That's actually a good business model.

I'd definitely buy premium..... if they change the netcode.

I'd prefer to play noob people like daddy_, who just cheat publically by installing aimbots and wallhacks, rather than playing people who have hardly any skill but fuck up their internet.

Dont you get tired of spinning the same story over and over again?

Apparently not.
Why do you feel the need to ask a question I already gave the answer to?

Trying to be smart eh? :D

I'm not trying................

You can use that money on hairpaint right?

Yes I could.

Why would I not be able to buy something? :s

Good to know! I dare not think what genius remarks we would get from you if you actually tried.

Not daring to think about something can be very restricting.
I encourage you to let your imagination run wild ;)

Dont want my head to explode bro. ^^

netcode is fine.

this is not a wired statement,

nevertheless, those teleporting ninja players are quite hard to hit

Teleporting ninjas have trouble with their conx, netcode's fine.

and you aren't anoyed that they can hit 35% lg without any problem while you can't even tell where their model is at?

dangling preposition...

I am.

It's not warping, it's pro-dodging!

if by pro-dodging you mean the dodging done by the current "pro's" then perhaps you're right.

netcode is ok, but weird is right - there are too many faggots who warp their way to the win

cu on lan

netcode is fine (c) dem0n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSJ7SpqamQ

put off playerlean m8

misses

Rendering is from a demo, that's not unlagged. In actual game, guy shot ahead of enemy.

How many years (or decades!) people are going to discover unlagged over again? Even the Q3 unlagged had whole page dedicated to explaining why shots look like they're behind when spectating/viewing demos.

11.06.2013 - spring sale...
spring sale...
spring...

A bit too late, id.

It's technically still spring in the North hemisphere. Until the solstice in about a week and a half.

Heard it before, but it is such a preposterous way of thinking when season starts...

How so? What would you suggest?

Um, calendar. June 1 = summer or gtfo

It's better than what they were originally going to call it; "The end of 2012 sale."

its called spring sale, because spring is soon over, and they want to sell spring stuff!

thats how it works in normal world, hard to tell if ql is different based on part of year

I have an idea, let me pay for avoiding to see all theese fucking adds.

i like that idea...how about the free AdBlock extension? Kinda damaging to ID revenue, but if Firefox/Chrome allow an extension like that, advertisers should figure out how to deal with it.

Either that or ID should build a dedicated app for running QL that circumvents the possibility of using an AdBlock-type extension.

You do know that adds are ingame as well right?
:z

not with adblock. I haven't seen a single ad inside QL nor at the site, ever.

yeah, i need to confirm that, but i'm pretty sure i don't see them ingame either.

Alright, if you jump around on ztn there are at least two fucking big annoying ads.
This new one is particular visible and annoying.

Normal adblockers simply cannot block ads inside the games. However, I'm fairly sure that geographical location was a factor back when QL's IG ads worked with external ad agencies so South America might never have had IG ads. It's not like that anymore, though. You should have ads. Did you even play since yesterday?

No idea what IG ads are, but people here do see ads if they don't use adblock.

IG ads :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74076095/QuakeLive/ads.jpg

I see.

Same answer as before: haven't seen one of those in-game ads ever, but without adblock people do see them here at 3-1 world.

Could be that I use a special adblock filter, greasemonkey script or something else, since I remember adding those back in the day.

they got rid of ingame ads earlier this year after numerous people's complaints about freezes when going in and out of game.

ql plugin froze because iga servers didn't respond in time or responded with internal server error pages after some pause. found an old screenshot of that problem, look at the timestamps.

so, instead of fixing these servers or moving iga code in other thread, not the main one, id folks turned it off completely until this yellow eye-poking discount madness and that one time faceit legends promotion.

AccessDeniedAccess denied

Ads were gone before that, actually. As you say, it hanged waiting for a server response, but that's because there was no server on the other end that could respond. FaceIt's Legends Cup was pretty much the end of it if I recall correctly and it was on December 16th. As for the new "yellow eye-poking" ones... there's no server behind them like ads in the past. I'll let you figure out how they work :p.

didn't understand the part about access denied.

iirc, that screenshot is from time with ads - dishonored etc. it was taken 7 month ago. faceit was after that. ads were turned off 23 January 2013.

but it doesn't matter anyway. :)

Access denied is what I was getting while trying to see your screenshot. I managed to see it, now. They turned down the attempts to communicate with the ads server on this update, yes, but the server was down before that.

EDIT : Which doesn't mean there weren't occasionally problems with the server before, as we can see with your wireshark screenshot and our delay experiences.

gonna wait till QuakeCon sale

Warsow is on sale for 100% off. No coupon code necessary, just head on over to the Download page and download it.

The sale ends at the end of June 16th 3013, so hurry up!

Have a nice 1000 years.

What you get for your money: a game with no future, past or present. Awesome deal for $0, but I'm gonna pass.

i enjoy the game but saying quake live has a future compared to warsow is kind of weird. neither game has a future nor many players. It just comes down to which you like playing more. i kind of wish warsow had more players but i can wait till reborn for a proper esport fps. would be nice if ql had that as well, but i dont see many people playing anymore.

Where did I say that? I only said Warsow doesn't have a future, past or present. Which is true.

On the other hand: Quake has a very rich past, still has some present, and future? Not sure. But future compared to Warsow? Certainly bigger. Warsow not only will never get big, it will never get any near the popularity of Quake.

i'd better play shitmania than wsw :-(

cool, it's time to switch to pro

Haven't played the game for 6-7 months and wanted to buy a Premium subscription but then I noticed there's not even a Paypal option.... wtf =D

its like they dont want people to buy prem :>

Yeah they should really get paypal but as far as I know they ran into some trouble when they tried to implement it years ago.

We've been told that Zenimax doesn't want to release some financial information requested by PayPal.

no paypal...:(

Still too expensive. Doesnt worth it with the low playerbase and poor content.

QUAKE LIVE Spring SALO-Sale !!! Welcome all urkainian quakers !!!!!!!!!!

I just wasted salo museum image on another thread... thanks asshole, now I need to find some Salo related image again

Let me help you:

4 years too late

i used to say otherwise, but this summer i agree with this statement. i hardly see any people playing anymore on pubs and premium servers are just full of bs.

come on reborn come out already!!

Jesus, why all the fuss. We're talking~ £20 for a game you'll play for days and days over a year. It's bugger all in the grand scheme of things. I've spent half that this week on Subways :)

I won't pay. Useless bs. Shit netcode. No development ect ect.

Lets pay for a server browser!!! If you weren't so fucking stupid you would realize that's about all you're getting. There is absolutely nothing else besides a shitty friends list that you get out of any of this that Q3 doesn't provide.... and then some... idiots!

Oh yea.. and the fact that after 4 years you fucking retards actually think somehow by majick that quake will bounce back because of faceit and other low viewed streams that no one actually gives a shit about.

" oh if we just put in all this stupid effort 4 years to late... the game will bounce back and e-sports will take off with quake at the helm like it should be."

there is no point in supporting ql anymore.

Aaaaaaaaalright.

This is the most retarded thing I've read today. Fortunately it's only 9.30 here so that can still change. The thing with Quake 3 is that there's no-one fucking playing the game. I'm a premium QL player and there are many populated servers at all times of the day.

No one here expects Quake Live to be the next big (old) thing in eSports, FACEIT or not, but the fact that there's weekly pro cups, daily points cups, 125 FPS league and now TDM cups as well is just god damn great 'cause it provides the entertainment that we all love and even let's anyone play and have some fun with it.

Because that's all it is to us. Fun. We pay and play because it's fun and if you don't want to pay, then don't god damn do it. No one minds.

very much this.
gtfo if it doesn't suit you, it'll save you time.

And please don't call people retards and idiots for supporting something they like and enjoy.

Unless it's Apple.

I'll fucking kill you!

lol :D Please don't.

This. Apple products are like retard badges.

I don't play anymore. I had a pro account which I had deleted with 2-3 months time left on it because the game sucks.

Great, then that should be the end of it.

nope. In order to end things in this community you have to go out ray the noob style.

still, quake3 got killed because of QL, theres no large community to split in half in this case. QL didnt particularly add anything special that a q3a weap balancing+netcode patch couldnt do :>

maybe quake lived on longer cause of QL, maybe not. all in all, were still paying for the same game wether you wanna ignore the facts or not ;D

just be a bit realistic bruh. and yes a few quid a month isnt the end of the world... but its the idea behind it, and the fact that every company seems to get this same idea of paying paying paying. i dont like consumerism :x

As long as it's once a year and not micro-transactions. Say that id introduced "buy 10 matches on Blood Run for only €8" (don't... tell... anyone...), then I'd have nothing to do with it, but as it is right now, I'm not complaining.

That doesn't mean that I wouldn't want better and more frequent updates, more community-made maps and so on (andsoforth) and hell, maybe even a free game! :D, but this is definitely not as bad as Gobotz made it out to be :)

You might be interested to know that people often say the subscription model is crap and that it should all be micro-transactions like that.

I did not know that. Jesus, that would rip a huge hole in my economy :p

QL actually grabbed together communities that were split (all the different mods and incompatible versions) and introduced Quake 3 to lots of new players (myself included).

It also managed to force some decisions that wouldn't be made and accepted in one Q3 mod (like unlagged hit detection, weapon balance, easier movement, spawn system etc.)

QL mainstreamed Quake again and brought thousands of noobs in. That's how it saved Quake.

but all the noobs have left since beta so now we are back to 2008

nothing changed

You have absolutely no idea how many actual noobs play this game all the time and have fun in it.

And from their ranks, every now and then a hero raises to join the army of the low-skilled and get -40 in pickups :)

If you go to QW for example, there's only a handful of noobs who blow themselves up and a bunch of old veterans who can jump around them in circles, there's nothing in the middle.

QL has natural distribution of skill, very little people on top, but then more and more as you go down, with no huge gaps. That's what makes the game healthy.

premium games are pretty dead though, you have to admit that. it was ok last year but this year it has really gone to shit. I think his point is that things are not improving as many seem to think because of faceit. it is still fun to play but less people are playing now than ever.

If that was his point he didn't make it very clear. Anyway, I don't have the numbers for people playing or filled servers, I only know what I see, and I see so many people in all skill levels playing every single day, and I see FACEIT Sunday Cups with a great lineup every time :) That's enough for me.

Huh? I see more premium servers than I was seeing in the past. Last year's controversial summer update really helped fill them up.

you virtually work for id with all your pro-ql posts so your opinion is extremely biased. do they pay you to defend them all day long? it's just weird. you do the same thing on their forums as well. anyways you play a lot too so you must really love the game. but so do i, i just do not see what you see.

Haha, relax, man.

I'm not paid. Facts are not pro- or anti- things. Facts are facts. And I see more premium activity than I saw at this time last year. You could say that my experience is only anecdotal evidence though and you would be right (why didn't you?). The sad thing is that id is very secretive about their data so we only have anecdotal evidences and their word (they claim there is more premium activity now than there was at the same time last year). That said, even if they provided data we could say they lied so it all boils down to trust anyway. Maybe if more people from more diverse locations provided their experience we could draw a better picture of the state of QL's premium activity. Yet it's not gonna take us far if, every time someone contributes, legions of anonymous posters come and say "Your experience are contrary to our views of the situation so you can't be trusted."

I've had a pro account for a number of years now, why am I being forced to see ingame ads?

PRO account was never about removing in-game ads.

I think his point is that he's looking at ads for a product he already owns.

Oh that. Well... yeah they're kinda promoting it for everyone, subscribers can snatch this deal and get a discount for tokens and you can get a sub now, the remaining months will get discounted as well I believe.

a sale is usually a bad indication of the state of things

id seems desperate for subs

That's idiotic. Discounts are the core of capitalism.

yet sales usually show up once a product has reached its shelf life. This is a clearance sale for a product that has seen better days.

wish it wasn't so but that is clearly what is going on here :(

Wait you're trying to say QL was doing OK before this sale?

lol where were you for the past 3 years.

syncerror or sponge said there's more subs now than there was last year

so and so. dm doesnt do discounts. its their anthroposophic philosophy, to not force people in any way (or maybe its just clever)

what baffles me is the hate from ql-community for ql-company. dunno..

what baffles me is the hate from ql-community for ql-company. dunno..

I think it's because Quake used to be something kinda big but that it's not anymore. The community wants it to become something again but it knows that it won't happen. Moreover, people know that, at this point, there's no hope for Quake outside of something done by id (QL). However, QL clearly isn't aimed for the "elitist" bunch of quakers; they want things that aren't priorities for id. Every time something else comes up they are reminded of it and they grow angry because they know QL won't become what they want it to become. I think it's easier to hate for what is not done than to be thankful for what is done.

i think its growing slowly, doesnt it? here in europe u can play 24/7. (on 2nd thought, its the same dozend people playing 24/7.. hmm)

i dont expect any changes in ql at this time. some new maps hopefully, but no new game-modes or weapon-changes.
i dont think a ladder system would bring more players..


the map-rotation worked out quite okish. could be better with more good maps though, ofc.

some new maps hopefully, but no new game-modes or weapon-changes.

New maps (or old maps not in QL yet) is a safe bet. New gamemodes aren't out of the question. We got, what, 5 new modes last year? It's surely too late for changes in weapon balance but maybe not for new weapons or weapon options. Kinda like how we got rail-jump, how we might get (probably not) the hook, how we were offered dozens of weapon modification options in Start-A-Match. I wouldn't bet on a ladder though. It's really not something QL seems aimed for. Basically I think we'll just continue to be given new content but nothing really aimed on competition. I'm still waiting on that Freeze Tag premium scoreboard!

As you say, the map rotation worked fine. It was something requested from time to time on QL's forums. It gives a taste of every map, offers diversity and gives an incentive to subscribe (play the maps you liked in the last rotation). I wouldn't have gone with that no map voting on standard (non-pro spawned) servers though. What I'd like to see next is a mode rotation. For the very same reasons. Hopefully it would give those standard CAers some desire to play Domination or Red Rover. Or even more serious modes!

steam must be on the ropes

for years

stfu and take my money

Some guys having a chat on random pub FFA server:

- Have you seen that QL is now offering a spring sale?
- lol too bad I don't need any springs


Made me go :^^DDD