John Carmack Anticipates Millions for Quake Live

[Slasher]

posted this in q3 but dont think many saw it =p

"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."

Full interview: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/carmack-fre ... 3211421011

Everyone digg this! Almost to digg front page.

http://digg.com/pc_games/John_Carmack_A ... uge_Return

[DooMer]

I copied the topic to announcements.

I also added your account to the mod group, so you can create topics in the announcements forum and it will show up on the front page.

[r3t]

I wonder if this will set of an influx of new Q3W members also...

[MKJ]

quite

[Transient]

I wonder if this will set of an influx of new Q3W members also...

I wonder how many devs of Q3 even realize this place is still around.

[seremtan]

Few would break through our stringent screening process

i'm the leader of this clan

[Plan B]

I wonder if this will set of an influx of new Q3W members also...

I wonder how many devs of Q3 even realize this place is still around.

I think IGN has been trying to pull the rug from under Q3W, yet it has persevered.
And may it persevere for a long time to come.
Can I get an Amen?!

[mjrpes]

Anyone know if CTF will be included? That's all I ever played.

[Therac-25]

There's sure to be some Dreamcast-caliber opponents coming out of this.

Considering how ungodly many people play shitty browser-based MMORPGs, this is sure to be a slam dunk.

[losCHUNK]

clan arena ?

[obsidian]

@Transient: id Software still knows we're here, we have members who started posting here who are now hired and working at id and Raven, after all. Plus SyncError posts community news stuff every now and then.

@Plan B: Amen, brother.

Great, I'm now stuck checking my email obsessively for that invite.

[Eddie]

i can't wait ahhhhhhhh

[Fender]

wait for all the fucking noobs using Guard on defense

[Fender]

zOMG HAX!!!! How'd he move so fast!11!!!!11

[r3t]

can't wait for the 'bot accusations

[Deji]

wait for all the fucking noobs using Guard on defense

LOL, I remember on Vortex people with Doubler would rail Guard defender teammates into the void and they'd be like WTF.

[R00k]

There's sure to be some Dreamcast-caliber opponents coming out of this.

Considering how ungodly many people play shitty browser-based MMORPGs, this is sure to be a slam dunk.

where the hell did this guy come from?! !

[^misantropia^]

I wonder if this will set of an influx of new Q3W members also...

I wonder how many devs of Q3 even realize this place is still around.

Google ranks Q3W pretty high for anything Q3 related. Less so for Quake Live but that's nothing some Googlebombing can't solve. So post those links to Q3W in forums and blogs and don't forget to put QuakeLive somewhere in the text.

[Therac-25]

where the hell did this guy come from?! !

the depths of marriage, fatherhood and WoW. i've almost forgotten what it felt like to play a game where you don't need to put in a thousand hours of playtime to be allowed to compete.

[Tsakali]

could this be?! the glorious Q3 days are once again upon us!

[R00k]

And people can't use the "I don't have it installed" excuse anymore.

[Tsakali]

the idea of "browser based" gaming of this caliper scares the shit out of me...here's to hoping they did it right

[r3t]

I still don't know if they plan to run the game actually inside a browser window? That would be... weird.

[Peenyuh]

Dude. Did you just call us "nanas"? And, if so, ......whattsa "nana"?

[RRROOOAAARRR]

I think IGN has been trying to pull the rug from under Q3W, yet it has persevered.
And may it persevere for a long time to come.
Can I get an Amen?!

I'll see your Amen and raise you a HELL YEAH!