140 people? Look out CS.

CS? Look out LoL.

LoL? Look out at.. at.. ehn… LOOK AT SPARTA!!!!

You're applauding a mere 3k?

Nice spin

I'm applauding?

Nice spin

#sgew

update thread in a month with new screenshot plz.

aight

or just do it today.

horrible

my ping to tx is 120 for some stupid reason, so there goes TX. also CA is too far west so that can't happen either.

Your list had 18 servers, 3 are playable for me

Lol, i have 200 ping or so from Sweden to New York if i remember correctly.

lol, duel hasn't changed a single bit.

Do you actually want people to start playing with duel?

Why is the game not on the front page of steam? There is no reason ql shouldn't have thousands of new players.

As it stands this seems like a total flop...

Why would you put it on front page?

Maybe they could have spent the money for the new announcer instead of putting QL on the front page of steam.

But they will probably just make it a premium only feature to get the old voice back.

There is a long list of things they could have spent the money.
VO is indeed at the very bottom

it's because they didn't advertise it yet. But they plan to do it, when they'll be ready.

YAY BIG QL STEAM RELEASE!!!!!


What? No. No, let's no advertise. We're not ready to do that, just yet. Six years is not long enough to prepare.

Ready for what exactly?

it's mainly a matter of bandwidth, they are afraid they can't handle a massive amount of players yet, remember 2008 with the queues etc ? :)

Didn't play any quake until 2011.
Regardless, they've had years to prepare.

no they don't :p

simply cause at that time they didn't know that they would put quakelive on steam ;)

That was a clear necessary step that should have been predicted years ago by id.

Logic doesn't apply there

They are planning to go for main page ad after 2-3 days on steam. They are checking if everything is working properly and servers and most importantly steam integration is also functioning as intended so far. Thats what sponge said.

wat

South African servers don't look like that :(

I hope there will be some photo of disrepute :o

Dunno how it will be in future, but today's peak already beaten the launch day one (yesterday).
http://www.steamcharts.com/app/282440

What? Ray was wrong? It can't be. Surely id must have paid Valve to inflate the numbers.

Face it dude, the numbers that have been muttered by sponge and co were lies.

There weren't 30,000 people playing this game last year and all the fake nicks you and your buddies are probably making now is not going to make a dent into the truth.

The playerbase is as small as Vedic said it was. For years you guys have tried to point to qlranks as an indicator of the real population of this game, but it was all a smokescreen.

Now that this game is on steam, you can't hide the real numbers anymore.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Quakelive : 3,233 players at peak today.

that's online at the same time, and to be honest I'm quite surprised at some of the titles that it's above.

That still does not at all mean there may not be over 50,000 people who have tried installing the game and may even still play it once a week or month.

No one has never claimed QL had 30,000 people online at the same time.

I was actually surprised to see 3K peak and 1K avg so far too. Was estimating it at 1K peak and 0.5K avg respectively.

lol wut?

50,000 people?

Everyone knows about this update and is joining this week. Whoever is here by the end of the week is your playerbase.

good luck getting the other 47k to prove me wrong

You know what quake needs: that the admins ban the IP 108.55.65.201 from here, in order to enforce your ban.

current
2,041

total
3,233


they're advertising front page now under new releases.
Assuming it's for the whole weekend.

very commnon ratio between online an active player base is 1/10 or even 1/15 for most of the games.

"But counting how many people logged in each given day, and then averaging that out across the week to smooth out the daily fluctuations will give you a very good sense of how many people are actually playing.":
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/06/01/measuring-mmos/

3k is the average.

keep in mind that the playerbase now consists of about 50% more people (reference to the bootiful post on this site where people are loving the full servers for once) , so the actual population is about half the current one.

Either way, this game does not have 50k as Yakumo is trying to claim. The truth is in the steam stat page.

Your reading skills are lacking. 50k active users can easely result in 2-3K average online. Those online numbers are simply total logged in client amount at a given moment of time.
And honestly current amount of players is not so bad. I expected it to be much less.

oh and no, the common ratio is 1/5, feel free to reference to the article.

"The most interesting quasi-subscriber figure is that surrounding people who just don’t log in very often. At any given time, you can expect the number of unique logins over a month to be drastically lower than the number of subscribers that month — by as much as 20%."

20% = 1/5

nice try though

Need to get rid of this shit t1 - t4 system..... Stupid that i need to drop down to like t2 to see people playing in servers

The fuck is Team Combat?

A playlist

CTF, TDM, Domination and Freeze Tag cycling on the same server.

No CTF. Just TDM, Dom and FT

Give it a month and player count will return to the usual 14 players.

megamegemegamegamegamegamega

this is all i see.

nigganigganigganigganigganigganigga

that's mega7, he's megaman3

same shit as sonic :)

5 1/2 years later and you would have to pay people to stand in a line that big again

I need my kappas here

kappa meme thing doesnt work on esr. i am sorry, esr is to cool :>

UK/EU busy too? gonna give it a go this weekend I guess...when they did the big change (damage numbers on screen etc) but pre-steam release my keyboard & mouse kept stop working midgame the few times I tried it...so haven't played for a few weeks now :f

2009:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvcbfzran9ai1ep/30000queue.jpg?dl=0

/swoons

woah!

:)

"technology is so cool"
Best part was when after a few hours the queue finally let you in, you missed that moment and was already logged out for inactivity.

lol i remember that. you couldnt even go for a shit in between games because it would log you out too quickly

When I load it up, I get nothing but high ping 79 what the F is going on?