Nope, sorry, there are no listen servers, having them would destroy their current business model.

They had in the past sent out a secure server for large lan events, but I don't think they're doing that any more.
you would have to contact them directly if you want one for an event, either via [email protected] or you could try [email protected]

And how exactly would that destory there model if only subscribers could set up a listen server?

If only subscribers could, it wouldn't really destroy the business model. I can see a few disadvantages from going that way :
- Some servers would probably be terrible and provide a bad experience for other players.
- Complete control from the server host which means bad admins will have more power and stats coming from there cannot be trusted.
- The outrage from non-subs because they will need to pay in order to host a server on their own hardware.

That said, there are advantages too and it might still be worth it. At this point though why only allow listen servers? The real danger would be going too far that way IMO. Players hosting server must not lead to id not hosting servers anymore.

Because once a listen server was out there cracking it to not need to talk back to their host to validate a license would happen in a day.

Here's one thread on this topic from 2 years ago http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post266570

That's not to say things may never change, but the main topic started with a question about what was possible now.

still love how they took Q3 which was free after purchase and raped the masses on a lesser product

Still love how they took a product which had a one off price because running any infrastructure entirely dependent on the community both setting it up and paying for it themselves, which was expensive for some, but kept a load of freeloaders happy for a while before it fell apart,

and turned it into something anyone could play for free, but people could pay for purely if they wanted to, and not have to deal with setting up hosting contracts etc themselves.

Im on the yakumo train recently. Lets all be more responsible. No troll. I used to want the whole site to logically work things out stead of fight ..sumtimes hardtime changers a dinosaur

how much people pay for quake live game since 2010?
how much people pay for quake 3 once?

maybe is not much money now but 3-5 years is big difference

How much did people pay to run dedicated servers for past 16 years?

How much did the "community" pay to buy the original copy of Quake 3? I guess null.

yes, but they still had to pay to run servers.

@flashsoul

You presume that I want a server that can be seen from outside the firewall. I do not. I only want a server that can be used on the lan, i.e. it only talks to local IP's addresses. If this were the case all your concerns would be moot.

Well I was answering Anon's question and I don't think he made the distinction but you may be right. Those concerns would indeed be moot for LAN only servers.