QuakeLive is fucked

[PhoeniX]

I'm not a subscriber and mine's still there and I can run it .

[SplEEb]

This is the last update. They are basicly done with quakelive. They have turned it back over to the comunity. There will now be custom maps aloud, dedicated servers aloud, lan, etc.etc.etc. You will just have to redo your friends lists on steam and stats are broke now with the server situation. But may return in the future somehow.
This has been in the works and a known fact for 6 months or more, its no surprise.
I really couldn't care less, I have had a pro account for years and hardly played. pfffft. I like to watch the tourneys on twitch, but thats about all I do now.

H1Z1 ftw.

[PhoeniX]

Turning it back over to the community may well bring fresh life into it, how is it a bad thing?

H1Z1 was great, I've got ~117 hours clocked up on it and played it exclusively with friends (speaking over Skype was a must to coordinate!). Unfortunately we got got bored of the bugs and that there was never really anything to "do" once you had your base set-up. Once you get a couple of vehicles roaming the map to collect resources for bases was fairly easy. We did have some hilarious times on it though, like the time me and a friend was cruising down the road and saw a police car by the side of the road. I jumped out, jumped in the car and we took off being shot at by its owners. A couple of minutes later another police car and vehicle turned up and we had an epic race to get away having now two vehicles full of loot .

[Transient]

I guess that's the chance you take when you play a free game that relies on revenue to keep the backend running. Please justify your entitlement for them to supply you with free games forever.

Backend like hosting servers and bug fixes? They could have just opened the source for the community to do it themselves. After all, only the truly dedicated few are still playing. How much money can that game possibly bring them in now?

[losCHUNK]

Aye pretty much, It's gone from free to play in 2010 to paid in 2015. It's a cash grab from a game that was essentially shelved. We're not asking them to supply us with free games, I just think it's a dick move from Bethesda to pull the plug, shut down the community and expect those fans to pay up.

The only people it hurts is the fans and for what ?.

[mjrpes]

What's the backup plan if one day I try to load quake3world.com/forum and I get file not found? Besides going outside.

[Eraser]

What's the backup plan if one day I try to load quake3world.com/forum and I get file not found? Besides going outside.

Holy crap, how will you live?

[scared?]

What's the backup plan if one day I try to load quake3world.com/forum and I get file not found? Besides going outside.

Take comfort in knowing that it was me who destroyed the forum once and for all... Then I truly won't have a life...

[obsidian]

Cross post from LEM:

If you ever had QL on your Steam account back when it was free, it stays in there as already purchased. QL has been on Steam for a while now, if you had any intention of playing it, you would probably have it by now.

It's $10 for Quake Live. To put that into perspective, if you wanted to buy Quake 3 Arena on Steam right now, it's $20!!! I'm also sure that it'll be cheaper on Steam sales. Will it affect new players? Perhaps. But the problem for new players for such an old game will always be retention. As a free game, some people will just download it, run around for a match and then never play it again. That adds nothing to the community.

On the plus side, there are now bigger map rotations, private servers (great for new players), and Steam Workshop for custom content. In the long run, I think this is overall positive. The only thing I think Bethesda could have handled better was some kind of migration of player data, and not wiping out the QL forums which had a bunch of resources written by the community, including some tutorials by cityy and myself.

[xer0s]

But $10

[seremtan]

£6.99 ain't no biggie

having to d/l it again is a pain though

[Whiskey 7]

Funny, today I played more Team Fortress 2 than I have in so long...

Firing up Steam got me playing some UT3 and I started HL2 Lost Coast again It's been years.

[Transient]

But $10

You're missing the point.

[SplEEb]

Turning it back over to the community may well bring fresh life into it, how is it a bad thing?

H1Z1 was great, I've got ~117 hours clocked up on it and played it exclusively with friends (speaking over Skype was a must to coordinate!). Unfortunately we got got bored of the bugs and that there was never really anything to "do" once you had your base set-up. Once you get a couple of vehicles roaming the map to collect resources for bases was fairly easy. We did have some hilarious times on it though, like the time me and a friend was cruising down the road and saw a police car by the side of the road. I jumped out, jumped in the car and we took off being shot at by its owners. A couple of minutes later another police car and vehicle turned up and we had an epic race to get away having now two vehicles full of loot .

I have only tried survival for a short time, was kind of boring to me. I play strictly battle royal.
2 man and 5 man BR's is a blast and skype or discord is definately a must.
Give it a try again, they have done some cool updates lately, still some bugs for sure but its getting better.
They have an ATV now thats fun to tool around on.

[xer0s]

But stats and "friends" lists

[Don Carlos]

Fuck your stats. Fuck my stats. Quake is not played for stats.

A FUCKING MEN

[vesp]

Fuck your stats. Fuck my stats. Quake is not played for stats.

A thousand times yes
I fucking hated the stats.. and the freakin "achievements"

[xer0s]

But you guys are missing the point! What's the point again, Transient?

[Transient]

Allow me to summarize the first page for you:
Bethesda took features and accessibility away from an active (albeit small) community and put the game behind a paywall for any new players who may come in, however few there may be. The move to Steam was announced, but the removal of stats/clan/server/friends lists and forums was not. Instead, they could have made the game free and stopped supporting it and allowed the community to pick up the slack.

[xer0s]

I'll buy the game for you. Is that what you need?

[Transient]

Seems like a fair trade, since I gave you the attention you needed by humoring your posts. My Steam username is had_matter. Thanks!

[xer0s]

http://steamcommunity.com/search/users/ ... had_matter

?

[scared?]

Domination...

http://steamcommunity.com/id/freakaloin

[xer0s]

lol, the comments at the bottom. Typical reaction to a Geoff encounter...

[scared?]

I like the morons who think I rage quit when I just had to get off cuz u know.. Life... ...