I heard through the grapevine they are working on Quake 5

shhh. don't tell anyone

Seriously?

No.

who's trolling who here :)

Q5 = basura garbage

i threw it on the ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ

dem questions

Sync and sponge took all the donations subscriptions money and flew to the Caribbean.

And bought a bag of _______

Rice.

and they dropped it on the floor!

Roughly equivalent to 5000000 Somalian dollars?

Zimbabwean, yes. ;)

Since this is the thread of asking questions that won't be answered, I want to know why syncerror went completely silent after the quakecon patches and to this day.

The quake live team consists of him and sponge, with syncerror being the only source of information we had. Without any source of info at all for months the project seems dead, even if that info was meaningless and unofficial.

I mean at least we knew they were still "working" on the project and that they were still in the company, whereas now the feeling is sponge stopped being paid to play skyrim all day anymore.

he's not exactly a popular figure around here and he knows it

bait the information with a "how many months do you think quake live has left" poll and see if he votes

He used to be in twitch chat all day, on irc too (people say, idk) and sometimes post in the lolofficialforums. Nothing now.

hes in rehab trying to lay off coke and doughnuts

yeah, when most people weren't hating him but posted long lists of features/maps they wanted in the game

also, there might be nothing news worthy on the ql front. they changed quite a lot of stuff in a short amount of time...

I would bet this is his response to the leaks there have been this summer on Esr.

That's kewl. My response was to cancel my subscription. Haven't played in months. Hope everyone else did the same.

PS: I bought everyone on my steam friends list an early release copy of Reflex. Everyone else should consider the same if they can afford it.

Hi syncerror

Syncerror's wife, please.

I know who you are. We played a lot of FFA together before loadout/universal ammo pack update.

I think i know how the devs are thinking. They have as many FFA players as they had before the loadout/universal ammo pack update BUT, before the update quite a few of thoose regular FFA players were subscribers. Nowadays its not the case. People who sub'ed because they liked FFA does not play FFA anymore. I am one of thoose. And i think you are also one of thoose. I lost 95% of my firendlist of regular FFA players after the loadout/universal ammo pack update.

Thing is no mater what you say. They won't listen. I ended up giving up on them. I think our FFA mode we had before will never come back. I will never forget the amount of immense fun on Terminal Heights i had with you guys during all thoose years. It was great fun.

Nowadays i am still subscriber but i play ONLY CA. Not to mention that ofc i play less and less.

loadout/universal ammo pack is an insult to Quake subscribers.

Hey,

Cheers for remembering me. Yes, it sad that these days it's more fun to reminisce about QL than to play QL.

I had to reinstall Windows a few weeks ago and I didn't re-install QL. Wasn't even a conscious act of defiance, I installed apps as i needed them, guess I just didn't need QL yet, sad.

I still want to blame someone though. I invested alot of time into QL only to have some pipsqueak fuck it up for no reason. I want to hear that Syncerror or Sponge got fired. I mean i literally want to hear an audio recording of the event! I want those fucks to suffer for what they did to my favorite pastime.

I tried to record this just for you. But, I'm sick and my voice is awful right now.

You'll be glad to know that it involved lots of high-pitched begging, Mr. Zenimax throwing a shoe at Sync, and Sync demanding he be allowed to take home his desk cactus and laminated memes from the office printer.

Sniff....nobody else gets me
But you guys, you get me

I'm sorry, but stop talking bullshit please.
There was classic FFA pickup channel launched a few weeks ago. You know how much interest there is in classic FFA? ZERO. It's basically completely dead. Also, you know how much games YOU played there? ZERO. Did you participate in classic FFA tournament? NOPE. So stop pretending that you're FFA fan, you're just some dude who whines and doesn't even play the game.

FFA mode you had before will never come back, because people who want it to come back are nonexistent. Id won't listen not because they're faggots, but because there's no one to listen to.

ffa player were there before steam launch. now they are gone ;(

game is dead really

Game is not dead. Classic FFA is dead because no one wants to play it even when making all efforts to overcome id software's changes. If players are gone, then that's great way for them to support their favourite mode.

it is true, if you play long time you know.

you cannot see this or you just pretend? must work at bethesda yes?

Okay I agree that the game in whole is not very alive.
But I guess what I actually wanted to say is that death of classic FFA is not caused by Steam release at all. It is caused by people who call themselves "FFA players", and yet refuse to play the classic mode given all the effort people made to provide this possibility.

Honestly SHUT YOUR FACE you stupid Troll
That FFA pickup channel was akin to that Douglas Adams joke about the the public notice: Link

You fucking mother fucker, are going to tell us "all is well" because if we theoretically spent hours waiting on IRC for 8 people to agree to play 1 game of FFA using the closest analog to classic FFA that we can hack together by making 16 changes to the launcher settings ??

Fuck your mother Steve_Jobs, I hope your liver kills you!

It was posted on ESReality and on QL forums, two places which players might frequently visit. How else you want it to be posted? TV ads?

Where I tell you that "all is well"? On the contrary, I tell you that classic FFA is dead, because no one is interested. A lot of effort was put in that channel to let people play their favourite mode. And result? It turns out that people don't care and don't want to play classic FFA at all. Maybe they only imagined that they like it, maybe they just like to whine to id for any reason, but what matters is that all the whiners proved that their words are worth absolutely nothing, because they don't even want to play the mode they whine so much about.

If it takes hours for "FFA fans" to assemble into a game, then maybe that classic mode isn't actually so demanded as people want to claim?

"classic" quake live populated 2009-2012
New quake live populated sep 2014-oct 2014

people really really love it now.

How does this have anything to do with the fact that very vocal "FFA fans" in reality turned out to be not FFA fans at all, but just contributors to the death of this wonderful mode and actively refuse to revive and enjoy it?

there was a community, they killed it off.
now why should we have to pick up the pieces and rebuild?
there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.

i'm not going to pay to run a server.

No, there wasn't a community of classic FFA players. There was a community of people who don't care what kind of FFA they play. Now this community successfully moved on to loadouts FFA because they don't give a shit, and real classic community turned out to be nonexistent.

man, can you stfu already? are you trolling or just fucking dumb?
there was/is an ffa community. ofc they care about what kinda ffa they play, that's why 99% of players were heavily opposed to steam changes. we didn't move on to loadouts, lol, it was forced onto everybody.
don't give me this shit about ffa pickup. being able to open browser, join a public server and play directly is not the same as having to use irc, and wait, and go to private _UNRANKED_ game and, wait and wait some more. you seem to have this idiotic agenda that somehow it's the players' fault and that they should view those 2 scenarios as equal.

did you learn it from sponge?

- Hmm. Let's do fuck-all for a couple of years and try to force our users to buy our substandard product. We're already mostly despised for our lack of communication and lack of transparency, so might as well go for a last resort move.

- Damn. Pricks aren't buying enough. Skimpy bastards. Let's blame them for the financial failure of the game, instead of our incompetence, indifference, and horrid business model.

don't give me this shit about ffa pickup. being able to open browser, join a public server and play directly is not the same as having to use irc, and wait, and go to private _UNRANKED_ game and, wait and wait some more.

That's because there's no classic FFA fan base, i.e. players that care enough to do all that. You can't call yourself a member of FFA community if you won't even bother to spend 10 seconds to visit webchat and type two letters. If that's such a big barrier for you, then it means you don't care about classic FFA.

- Hmm. Let's do fuck-all for a couple of years and try to force our users to buy our substandard product. We're already mostly despised for our lack of communication and lack of transparency, so might as well go for a last resort move.

- Damn. Pricks aren't buying enough. Skimpy bastards. Let's blame them for the financial failure of the game, instead of our incompetence, indifference, and horrid business model.

It's all imaginations in your head. In reality, id software is happy and doesn't give a shit about classic because loadouts FFA is popular and Steam launch gave some boost to player and subscription numbers. They definitely see no problem or failure here. And as they see loadouts much more business successful, the only way to continue enjoying classic FFA is to make community effort to play it. Which failed because no one was actually interested in playing.

ye steam is success etc.
0/10
troll somewhere else

from their perspective it has been.

from their perspective it has been.

Really? Tell us more. (honestly I want to know)
We'd love to hear about their perspective on things.

Is it something they are just saying, or something they actually believe?

All that sitting in #tdmpickup made your brain evaporate.

In reality, id software is happy and doesn't give a shit about classic because loadouts FFA is popular and Steam launch gave some boost to player and subscription numbers. They definitely see no problem or failure here.--steve_jobs




bethesda pay you good?

prove please that id sees current steam statistics as success and failure. Please take screenshot showing a dev saying this. i am laughing really. player base decrease in half every month, this is not success.
http://steamcharts.com/app/282440#All

this is prove that steam launch was failure

no. people aren't paying for the game. they play what's provided for free. there are no pubs for FFA

There is everything provided for people to play classic FFA. A big work from community was done to make #ffapickup. And the result is: no one cares enough to play.

i could easily buy a sub and run a server... but i'm not giving those shit heads anymore money.
we didn't have to find games before... just started the game and there's FFA.

now they've made it....( by what you're suggesting).... so that i have to go get an irc client, install it then wait to find people which i didn't have to do before. and learn how to use irc.

so before there were players already on servers.... playing.
now i have to put the effort of a part time job in just to hopefully find a game.

no thanks.

destroy a one of the 2 communities that has kept the game a float...
then offer bullshit pain in the ass work arounds and say they tried.

fuck you.

learn how to use IRC, download clients, what next, you need to buy an additional PC so you can run IRC on?

Just go to http://irc.lc/quakenet/ffapickup and you're all set.

why isnt it just built into ql?

can't be that hard if they can imbed a stream on the page.

they have a chat function with friends. why not make global huds... lounge rooms whatever.

why can't they just make all game types ranked? even insta.
obviously with this generation of gamers that stuff is important.
you can see how quickly not having ranking for real ffa killed it.

people like gaining skill and being known. its always been like that.
in q3 it was by word of mouth.
people have become accustomed to the rankings now...
and in reality are addicted to it lol.
people are addicted to numbers.
where do you think the obsession with accuracy and lg cheater fags comes from?
numbers are concrete and law in peoples minds who lack creativity.
that shit only works with science fags.
elo fags?

people are addicted to the ease of use of quake live.
thats why no one goes back to q3.
that and the pipe dream of quake returning to the esports spot light
that way everyone here can quit their shitty job and train quake 24/7 lol

this community is funny.

Group chat would be cool indeed. That should actually be possible with XMPP. I don't think they would use IRC... or at least they wouldn't leech off an existing network. That wouldn't be very nice.

bring back dev picks too.

that was one of their better ideas.

irc is old no? noone but quake nerd use

why id not get voice chat like modern game

Last remark is a lie. I just checked. There are public populated FFA servers (about the same amount as before the changes), all running the new version. Unless these are new players (lol), most people have accepted the new FFA. I'm not saying they like it or prefer it over classic, but they do play it.

My guess is that the hurdle to get classic going (ask a sub to put out a server and invite friends) is just slightly too high to bother (or people cba to workaround id's changes again) and that the new mode is just barely not horrible enough for people to stop playing. Things would clearly look different if there were classic public ranked servers provided by id available from the server browser like the other ones.

i meant no id hosted classic ffa servers.
just doing that would help.

retarded much?

no one uses irc except for esr dinosaurs?
not everyone looks at esr?
people just dont care anymore because they're sick of the bs?


????

The fact is: you don't play classic FFA so stop whining at id software that they killed mode you don't play.

i play when someone runs a server. maybe id should host servers for it.
it's their game. it's their job to provide the tools to create a community.
not destroy one.

Did you visit #ffapickup? No. Did you play in tournament? No. There was all opportunity to play, but you missed it. This shows how much you care and how strong a fan you are.

i dont use irc nor will i ever use use it.

might as well set up pickup channels on ham radios.

maybe i fucking hate the devs and am not going to support their pile oh shit game.

if i really cared... i'd set up a q3 ffa server not shitty ql.

why you must troll. your company at headquarters of bethesda have no other thing for you to do? image of id cannot be change. They made big mistakes with steam release. cannot save now.

were all like a a super huge rock and roll band....

syncerror and sponge decided that they were to good for everybody so they kicked us out and stopped playing metal so they could form a boy band.

well their world tour tanked and now they're trying to get everybody back for reunion tour.

some wounds run too deep...
sometimes there is no going back....



i'll be wearing spandex in reflex.

thats how i picture it.
80's music, big hair and spandex.
lots of close ups on smiling exercising girls.
step aerobics is where it's at.

http://imgur.com/M8vYSdA

Don't fuck with me i've got reebok pumps.

Did anyone here sign an employee NDA and wants to get his ass sued? I'd be really interested.

thats why we need a homeless guy on the inside. can't get sued when you own nothing.

it's a standard practice to let a few homeless guys inside your company

its like bring your daughter to work day

For as long as I don't have one, deal done.

well, unlike children you can drop the homeless off anywhere when you're done with them.

so that's how i got that job

Id Software isn't exactly the NSA.
One or two measures to hide your IP, and even if they tried they would not be able to trace a message here to it's source.

Now if you post information which makes it easy for other Id/Zenimax employees to deduce who you are, that's another issue

In reality, I doubt that anyone at Id gives 2 shits about us or the QL' team' working out of the broom closet.
But the people on this forum, they care (or at least used to...); I'm hoping someone knows more that me and will share.

No, I did not. But I would sign a petition to see his ass fired.

start one! many would sign

Lolzy said it best about the devs.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I actually believed they *might* do something good with their insane update and Steam release. Oh how wrong I was...again.

Seriously, QL's history is the best way to cause extreme depression and think about suicide. It's almost pathologically wrong, fucked up, sick, messy, distorted and totally wasted opportunity.

Now bear with me:

1) A monkey handler from Zenimax comes into id software's building if they still have one and says to his monkeys: MAKE.PROFIT.YOU.FUCKS.

2) A head monkey pisses on the floor while running around the room. That piss creates a pattern.

3) Other monkeys look at that pattern and prophesize from it: Oh, this splatter looks like a gun...I know...a HMG! Oh oh...here we have a radial pattern...a counter for pickups!

4) Another monkey finds out that there's something called STEAM. Like, say, 10 years after its arrival.

5) The same monkey realizes that maybe, just maybe, the game they try to work with may be used on Steam. Hey, Steam = network, multiplayer. Quakelive = Network, multiplayer! Eureka! 

6) Monkey see, monkey do! The team of monkeys begin to stuff their feces into the DVD-ROMs in their computers. The cacophony of short-circuits coming from these devices is translated into game code.

7) The monkeys vigorously rub their genitalia against keyboards of their PCs. This is the correspondence with Valve. Finally a deal is made. Signed with crap.

8) Great day has come! A head monkey pushes the button and QL is back again! A great celebration is made: Rivers of shit float down the stairs straight into the server room; this causes system malfunctions with game servers. Hence lag and ping issues.

9) A head monkey watches the game forums and finds out REBELLION! He asks the monkey handler what to do. Monkey handler pets the monkey and removes all keys from its keyboard - apart from the DEL and BACKSPACE keys and tells the monkey to get right to responding to gamer's concerns.

10) A PEAK happens and goes away. Now all monkeys face reality. Poop-flinging has stopped, no more hanging from chandeliers. The DEL key is permanently stuck on keybaord connected to the server that handles forums.

All is well in the jungle."

LOOOOOL

Some really funny and creative lines there!

Like "6) Monkey see, monkey do! The team of monkeys begin to stuff their feces into the DVD-ROMs in their computers. The cacophony of short-circuits coming from these devices is translated into game code." LOLOLO ROFL LMAOOOO

The DEL key is permanently stuck on keybaord connected to the server that handles forums-

SASPARILLO!
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hi lolzy

Rofl

id software today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGjiFhnKORY

employee letters

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Rev...012058.htm

ouch gg

lol note how the only very much positive reviews started right after those opinions on id went public last year

Yea, but if you were happily working at id and saw the media reports saying everyone is unhappy, you would be tempted to post a positive review. I doubt people who are happy with their current employer would go to a site like that without being prompted, so I would expect a skewed view.

if you were on the D squad at Full Sail for character rigging, you'd be happy working anywhere.

Tim Willits killed quake confirmed?

nice link

.

haha or reviews from steve_jobs, neeple, queenteen or yakuma

oh wow...

!!!!

zenimax must break up id before lose more money

bad company

Please contact Pharton and Yukuma if you have any questions.

http://vimeo.com/40225932

Just stop buying theyre crap . They should be slapped silly with a copy of Q4

Lolololol. Beat em up with their own neglected product.

rage on em .... with rage.

it's still id, as in 'id, ego and super-ego'. on a related note... i seem to have lost almost all interest in ql :/ wtf happened.

steam crap update happened

it all went down hill when ins stopped casting.

I miss ins