Here's the updated list of players for the ESWC Masters event July 4th-6th. The event will be streamed live, info TBA. The masters event is invite only, where the top 3 players will qualify along with national qualified players to the Grand Final event in San Jose in August.
Among the original invites who will not be participating are ESWC 2005 champion Russia Anton "Cooller" Singov who decided not to attend after qualifying for the grand finals in San Jose, and ESWC NL champion Netherlands Lemmy "if-22" de Groot, who cannot get off work. Replacements include CPL World Tour superstar Netherlands Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager and 4Kings' new pickup Austria Richard "noctis" Gansterer.
USA - John "ZeRo4" Hill SWE - Magnus "fox" Olsson BELARUS - Alexei "Cypher" Yanyshevsky CHN - Fan "RazerJ" Zhibo USA - Paul "czm" Nelson NED - Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager USA - Chance "Chance" Lacina POL - Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski SWE - Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani USA - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson NED - Jeffrey "Draven" Debipersad SWE - Karl "fooKi" Johansson FRA - Benjamin "Unity" Rovira CAN - Thomas "griffin" Wall FRA - Pierre-Emeric "link1n" Portier GER - Marcel "k1llsen" Paul AUT - Richard "noctis" Gansterer FRA - Grégory "falcuma" Ollivier POL - Mateusz "matr0x" Ozga SWE - Andreas "ArrW" Ihrfors UK - Daniel "ddk" Kapadia FRA - Arnaud "slx" Lanoe KOR - Dongkin "Dongjin" Suh
"Early on, we were tossing around two different orders of magnitudes - anywhere from 50,000 to 5 million people playing. We have no idea where it is going to be in there. The fact that 70,000 people have signed up in a week means that we’re going to be looking at hundreds of thousands of players, if not millions. We hope that that can be a sustained critical mass of a community that can play this type of game, and be self-supporting."
Carmack plans the introduction of Quake Live's counterpart of the BattleNet match-making system known from StarCraft or Warcraft 3 so that inexperienced players are not discouraged:
"Skill-based matchmaking is extremely important, so when you jump in, you’re going to be someplace appropriate. But we’re also adding things like bot-guided training levels offline. When you initially set up your account, you get to give the system an indication of what your skill level is. After a few matches, the game will see how you’re performing and adjust your choices."
No, 1.5 isn't quite out yet, but it is being finalized for last minute bugs and balances.
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Work on the latest game update for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is steaming ahead at full knots and we're now testing the latest version of it internally to see if there are any glaring issues left to fix. Even more exciting, we've put together the final changelog for the update... In a smallish nutshell, 1.5 brings a number of new features and customization options to ETQW and fixes all of the issues left over from 1.4.
DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth
Looks like they're hiring which means they'll have a relatively HUGE staff, what with Rage, QuakeLive, unannounced Quake Arena title, and now Doom 4 being developed simultaneously, which means 3 full time teams.
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