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I was thinking about this while I was working out this morning and Quake Live is probably the most important game released for the PC in 2009 ...

I know there are probably people out there who are wondering what I am thinking, after all there are going to be huge games like Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 released this year, but I'm not sure those people realise what Quake Live represents. Up until the release of Quake Live this week, the vast majority of free web-based games have been simple arcade games that have been played (primarily) by non-gamers ... Quake Live represents a dramatic shift being that processing power and network connections can now support very complex games and that these games can (potentially) be profitable based on the ad-revenue of a popular website.



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I just tried to play it. Unfortunately they do not have linux support yet, but they say it's "under development"




 

What is this "Quake Live" you speak of?



It crashed when I tried to play on Firefox. This thread reminds me I have to try it on IE, which I'll do right now.



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Good point. Quake Live will show people the variety of PC gaming's business and step it up another level.

I believe Quake Live will now be the most popular and second-most profitable FPS of 2009 across all platforms, only behind COD: Modern Warfare 2.



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"You are in line

Position in queue: 4480"

This is the annoying part... Are they going to get rid of this?



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NJ5 said:
"You are in line

Position in queue: 4480"

This is the annoying part... Are they going to get rid of this?

I'm sure it'll be gone once they add server capacity. I guess they're not going to do it until they can get more stable player numbers, though. Besides, this is still just a beta, remember?

As for the importance of Quake Live, I doubt it's going to do much for PC gaming. It's just another form of browser-based games, and it will probably not make the PC more popular. Browser games could become more popular but it's not "small" games like this that could change the market. Browser-based games just have a more casual image than more traditional games - people feel they're just meant for wasting time (like Solitaire and Minesweeper for example). Browser games might be too simple to feel like "real" games. Still, I could be wrong with Quake Live.

Who cares anyway...



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It's getting annoying now. I tried it on IE (had to redownload the executable due to an "update"). Then IE blocks the add-on by default, and the website doesn't remind you that you have to allow it (as other websites usually do). I got the add-on to run, and now it's sitting at:

"Checking game data: 0% complete"

... and not moving out of there. I tried restarting the browser and the same thing still happens.

Yeah I know it's a beta but they already had a closed beta before. It doesn't look stable at all.



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Quake is a 10 year old ass game. Also the web browser version is for free. I don't think it will make a lot of revenue from advertising.

Browser games never make much money.