How can we garner more interest in Quake?

[MethWaffle]

There's almost no possible way. This game is very very unfriendly to any one who is new. Not necessarily the community, but the actual gameplay. The lag is very difficult to get use to and the game feels slow and sluggish. Getting new people, that haven't already played this game, is a near impossible task. Only way it'd work is if we got enough newbs to have newbs fight newbs.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

It's 2011, if your living with lag,its probably because you're paying for a shit service.

I've lived on East Coast and Central , and there is no reason to be mentioning lag as a "con" in netquake.

Wake up and smell the fn INTERNET BACKBONE.

[Spirit]

in Qlive within my first week I was already able to score within the top few K/D ratios on pub servers..

QuakeLive uses match-making to put you into games with players at your skill level. Obviously this needs some time to adjust. I highly doubt that you played on high skill servers. What is your name at QuakeLive? You can check your "tier" at the statistics tab of the profile, what tiers were/are you in?

[MethWaffle]

I have Cable internet and live in the US. I get around 70 ping in your guy's US servers. I feel as sluggish as I do with 200+ ping in QW. To any one not use to NQs all around laggyness it's a very hard thing to get use to and also very frustrating. The movement and firing is just slightly off, which may not sound like much but it's very irritating.

[Rampage]

QuakeLive uses match-making to put you into games with players at your skill level. Obviously this needs some time to adjust. I highly doubt that you played on high skill servers. What is your name at QuakeLive? You can check your "tier" at the statistics tab of the profile, what tiers were/are you in?

I played with guys like cK spook and 519 guys in my first week.. there are only so many good pub servers

[R00k]

I think they only list the pub servers that are within your ranking/stats. You can get an invite from a friend etc. Though all the really good players are on PRO servers, which cost $$. Pub servers are filled with kids that were not old enough to play, when Quake3 was popular. FOr a challenge only select the yellow servers, the green ones are best for your skill level, yellow is harder.

hERE's Clan u4's member page. You might recognise CATA and Bruce2 there... http://www.quakelive.com/#!clans/summary/122500

[Rampage]

I forgot.. what's the server for MIRC where all the Quakers hang out?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

irc.gamesurge.net

[Spirit]

Skill obviously also depends on the gamemode you are playing. I guess cK spook is a dueller? Or TDM? What gamemode did you play?

Public servers in the high tiers are filled with cool guys. Not kids. ;-)

[Grim Warlock]

Quake is a game from 1996, the latest game's from 2006. Quake is dead, only communities spread over the internet keep it alive, id Software needs to do something outrageous with the new Quake game to get real attention.

[Rampage]

^ Quake Live community is actually up and well, they still have scrimmages, clans, and a lot of people playing but it's still spread out a little thin because of the competition with console gaming and new PC games

[Grim Warlock]

Quake Live won't last a year and it's full of trolls and idiots.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Quake Live won't last a year and it's full of trolls and idiots.

are you serious? you can't be. I mean, Cmon.... Q1 lasted this long, and you're predicting the fail of FREE SOFTWARE.

lol, you don't even multiplay Q1 , what makes you think anyone believes its full of trolls and idiots , I mean,that would mean you have to actually play it.

I call shenanigans !

[Grim Warlock]

Yes but most people already brought Quake 3 and in Quake 3 you have the ability to mod, in Quake Live you can't and the players are no lifers. Just look, back in closed beta it had so many players and once open beta came it start slowly decreasing and that hasn't stopped. And I think you're getting Quake 1 mixed up w/ Quake Live, I did play Quake Live before I got banned for cheating.

[Teflon]

^ Quake Live community is actually up and well, they still have scrimmages, clans, and a lot of people playing but it's still spread out a little thin because of the competition with console gaming and new PC games

There's scrims and the like, but good luck trying to find a decent public game. Its usually Clan Arena circlejerks or nothing at all.