Why does nobody play this much?

[Sheik Yerbouti]

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[carl]

its very old and clunky to get a match started. i still dont know how to start a match lol

[poros1ty]

If this game was free to play it'd probably have more players than Quake Champions

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by poros1ty:

If this game was free to play it'd probably have more players than Quake Champions

I remember when it was free to play.
Why they changed that, I have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea. I think it's stupid that they removed that feature.

[Torx]

Originally posted by Skeletor2498:

Originally posted by poros1ty:

If this game was free to play it'd probably have more players than Quake Champions

I remember when it was free to play.
Why they changed that, I have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea. I think it's stupid that they removed that feature.

The reason should be obvious. They want everybody to play Quake Champions instead.

[Kaizo]

Idunno, I think it's better to pay a small 10 bucks to own the game and all it's content forever rather than be sectioned off by either a cut down free to play version, or a paid subscription to get all the content.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by RosieKat™:

Idunno, I think it's better to pay a small 10 bucks to own the game and all it's content forever rather than be sectioned off by either a cut down free to play version, or a paid subscription to get all the content.

I dont understand.

When this game was free, all you had to do was make a separate account and that was it. The game was completely free. Even back then (2014 to he exact), I dont remember a whole lot of people playing. I remember some sort of premium membership, but that might've been a different game.

Originally posted by Monk:

Originally posted by Skeletor2498:

I remember when it was free to play.
Why they changed that, I have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idea. I think it's stupid that they removed that feature.

The reason should be obvious. They want everybody to play Quake Champions instead.

Not exactly. The game for some reason became 10 dollars around 2017 or so before Quake Champion's release. Maybe it was around 2016, I dont know. All I remember is checking the store page of Quake Live and seeing that it was $10. Even when the game started costing money, Quake Champions wasn't free. I believe Quake Champions used to go for $20 or maybe a little more. It wasnt really expensive, and I can see why.
Now that QC is free, I see absolutely NO reason why Quake Live shouldn't be free again. I find it rather stupid.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

Originally posted by Skeletor2498:

When this game was free, all you had to do was make a separate account and that was it. The game was completely free. Even back then (2014 to he exact), I dont remember a whole lot of people playing. I remember some sort of premium membership, but that might've been a different game.

It was never completely free. The free model was ad supported (often with Bethesda game ads or ISP-dependant ads) and people had to pay to rent servers to have different settings and access to the full maplist (maps were limited and rotated weekly for free players). Also there was a votekick ELO gatekeeping war against new blood because of the ease and convenience of the matchmaking supplied which shows a lot of irony in the wishes for a healthy playercount now.

It's funny how there's weird revisionism and reminisence about the old QL free days when there was much demand to drop this model and give them everything and how there's surprise that there's a price tag at the end of it...

[Kaizo]

yes quake live had a "pro" subscription where you had to pay to unlock a lot of new maps and servers, and even now the playerbase is fairly similar to what it was when the game was around originally.

so while maybe having it free now would be fine-ish, increasing a hacker problem would be an issue definitely, it doesn't change the fact that the current option is better than what the game had originally.

Edit: forgot to mention the "premium and pro" subscriptions locked off some gamemodes as well

[buypolar pop]

Originally posted by btimofte100:

its very old and clunky to get a match started. i still dont know how to start a match lol

find a server and hit join.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by buypolar pop:

Originally posted by btimofte100:

its very old and clunky to get a match started. i still dont know how to start a match lol

find a server and hit join.

ha

ha

ha

[Daikatan]

This game is well alive and popular compared to many other old fps mp games, in which u ll have to arrange people over discord or smth instead of seeing bunch of servers with people

[Donny]

Originally posted by AN BIFFED ELF!!!!:

Originally posted by Skeletor2498:

When this game was free, all you had to do was make a separate account and that was it. The game was completely free. Even back then (2014 to he exact), I dont remember a whole lot of people playing. I remember some sort of premium membership, but that might've been a different game.

It was never completely free. The free model was ad supported (often with Bethesda game ads or ISP-dependant ads) and people had to pay to rent servers to have different settings and access to the full maplist (maps were limited and rotated weekly for free players). Also there was a votekick ELO gatekeeping war against new blood because of the ease and convenience of the matchmaking supplied which shows a lot of irony in the wishes for a healthy playercount now.

It's funny how there's weird revisionism and reminisence about the old QL free days when there was much demand to drop this model and give them everything and how there's surprise that there's a price tag at the end of it...

Hmmm, i had a great experience overall with f2p quake live around 2011-2013. I only ever got kicked once from a clan arena match by some really angry players ("uninstall the game, etc.") but I swear that was ONLY ONCE in like 50-60hrs of gameplay which is very surprising. Compare that to, say, Dota 2, where I had that experience happen during my first time playing on mm :(

I remember it very fondly, and I miss popping on after high school studies and fragging with random guys who were genuinely, 100% accurately at my skill level which was very impressive (again, only had issues with balance when joining the non-green-colored servers which denoted that they had stronger players). I loved how it had servers but somehow did skill matching better than actual matchmaking...

Anyway, it may be because it was free that you had a lot of newcomers to afps playing at the time. After a bit I got sidetracked and started playing Melee as my skill-based game of choice, haha, but I still love bunnyhopping and other stuff. I don't like elitists and people that aren't humble to new players (they feel like they are ALL young, which is like 75% true that they are young and don't know how to play because they weren't there for the classic-fps fad during the late 90s and early 2000s), but I love the games.

Nowadays, as for stuff that reminds me of classic fps, I play Sonic Robo Blast 2, a Doom mod with heavy emphasis on momentum and it is definitely inspired by "defrag" maps. There are similar tactics going on in a SRB2 level in many ways but its set-up in a more identifiable manner, using vibrant colors and layered stage design.

[Gutwrat]

well i already bought quake 3 and basically nobody in EU playing ..i dont know what the "live" part means - is there inbuilt twitch support or something like that?

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Gutwrat:

well i already bought quake 3 and basically nobody in EU playing ..i dont know what the "live" part means - is there inbuilt twitch support or something like that?

I honestly have no idea what was with the name.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

It was "live" in your browser when it was named. Before that it was briefly Quake Zero (zero for the price barrier to play, like NetZero once was for an ISP)