Is there any game like Quake Live that's populated and where it's reasonably easy to get a game on public servers?

I'd agree that Quake Live is still good, despite the announcer, despite the stupid decrease of LG, the lack of ability to play all maps, the ruination of FFA and so on. It would be very hard to screw up this game so bad that it wasn't fun to play.

But IMO there's toxic situation of people who are progressively ruining the game, people without a clue of even the basics - what percentage of people do you think like the new announcer? - and I'm tired of just playing along in a game where suddenly everything is likely to all be changed again at the whim of these individuals. None of these changes will do anything to appeal to a wider audience, all of this is nonsense and its failure of it will be masked by the steam release. So that's where your bucks have been going when you became premium/pro.

The signs were there before and I spoke up about why these people were allowed in control of the game, allowing this thing to develop. But since it wasn't directly affecting most people they just allowed things to continue as they were. Now we're all paying for it with LG and every time the announcer says something.

I'm tired of moving every time they say jump. Quake Live should be an experience between players, there should be no "developers" at all with the ability to change anything, this game was finished long ago and the only good thing they did was tweak the LG and RG when it first came out based on suggestions and advice from the pros.