id has announced a new update for its free-to-play shooter Quake Live that adds a holiday arena and new skins.
BLG writes, "Alongside the Wolfenstein and DOOM franchises, there are the Quake games. Known for fast-paced and insane multiplayer deathmatch action, there was a time Quake was best known for its single-player design.
That all changed as time passed (i.e., after Quake 3 Arena). Multiplayer deathmatches were never the same.
As other FPS games leaned more into improved narrative and storytelling, id Software delivered a genre-defining multiplayer experience.
Quake 3, and the iterations, will always be one of the best multiplayer series releases.
As far as campaigns, I think 1 and 4 are great, but that 2 was garbage.
Quake Champions was a joke on and didn't capitalize on much of anything that made the series great.
Omar Banat: Despite the passage of time, the consistent player bases for these six ongoing games have stuck around through all of the highs and lows.
Huh, I'm not surprised at a couple of these but I did not think For Honor would have had the staying power that it did. Maybe I should pick it back up....
They switched from p2p to dedicated servers and continued to balance and release content. Especially on ps5 60fps is amazing
How about Warhammer Vermintide, seriously those games slap big time, and i've rarely had an issue matchmaking, but no one ever talks about them
I’d add Factions to the list. It has a smaller but super strong fan base. My brothers and I have put more hours into factions than all other multiplayer games combined
I played with my brother so much on Factions as well, 1000+ hours combines from PS3 and PS4, it is crazy addicting and satisfying.
I am still waiting for the new one 😞
Yes, it´s true. Quake Live is no longer a F2P title, as Bethesda is now charging $10 for the game. So no wonder why a lot of Gamers are really angry right now. So this is my (Robin Ek, The Gaming Ground) take on this matter.
I think most of the Quake Live players feel like that, at least that´s the vibes that I got from all the comments on the Steam page.
Ughh.. they gave any existing users a free copy, it's not exactly hurting any current players.
Infact, this may invite more people to pick up the game during sales and play it.
Taking out the 36$/year sub for a flat 10$ release is a very good move. It'll allow everyone access to the same amount of content and not divide the community.
Yeah, the outrage seems kind of weird because I remember a lot of people complaining about the game being f2p (even though it wasn't, you needed the yearly subscription to get much out of it) and wanting it to just be a standard release instead with a one-off payment, and now that we're finally getting that, people are saying they'd rather pay a yearly subscription? It makes no sense.
My two big issues with Quake Live were always that it was free to play, and that for some reason they decided to remove all the blood and gore from the game which was stupid.
In other words, most of those who ranted didn´t quite see the whole picture behind the Quake Live changes?
Then I don´t understand all the down votes and rants on the Quake Live Steam page? Or did I miss out on something?
Exactly, neither do I. It's like people need a reason to be outraged all the time. It's Come to the point when decisions that are made in favor of the consumer are also met with outrage
*WildArmed*
True, it could also be trolls for all I know. As most of those comments seems to be rather "whiney".
"Exactly, neither do I. It's like people need a reason to be outraged all the time. It's Come to the point when decisions that are made in favor of the consumer are also met with outrage"
So it's a Quake3Arena for free? It looks cool, I may give it try.
it's very fun to kill some time