Q4 Participation Question

Post by **Bueller** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:42 am

I've only played Q3 online and I have purchased Q4 and can't help but notice what appears to be low player counts across the board on all gametypes. Is this normal for this stage of the game? Scale of 1-10 should I be worried? Q3 player counts have dropped alot in the last year so I figured I'd get into Q4 but it looks as if Q4 has worse participation currently.

At 2:30am on a Friday I did a quick check at: http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/

The results really look bad but I wasn't around during the early years of Q3.

Q4 Ranked 27th 1203 servers, 275 players:
DM 436 servers, 169 players
Tourney 405 servers, 61 players
CTF 122 servers, 27 players
Arena CTF 24 servers, 9 players
Clan Arena 37 servers, 9 players
Duel 2 servers, 0 players
Team DM 173 servers, 0 players

Post by **iluvquake4** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:28 am

It's all about bots.

Gamespy might be counting bots.

Quake 4 needs bots so people can find 'busy' servers and play till real people join.

Post by **Bueller** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:04 am

Iluvmymac wrote:It's all about bots.

Gamespy might be counting bots.

Quake 4 needs bots so people can find 'busy' servers and play till real people join.

I'm not positive but I don't think its counting bots. As far as q4 having bots implemented, I believe they allready have a bot or two released by modders but I would much rather autodownload work. I think thats more of a priority.

Post by **Runningman** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:15 am

ya if the all mighty all seeing has a bot filter im sure that sight does too since alot of people/figures highly depend on it.