Quake Live

[Frogma]

i'll play im fairly ok at quake

thats what I thought too.

 

[phatbass]

lol frog maybe put names up so can add each other i havnt signed in for mths lol

 

[noobItUp]

just search for f4g. All the cool kids belong.

 

[LoudCongee*]

i downloaded it but when i press play the whole thing just crashes :S

any ideas to fix this?

 

[fliqpar]

What part of the load do you get to like have you done the intial training or is it crashing as soon as you type in the web address?

 

[Messenjah]

Quake live out of beta. Ive been waiting a long time for this.

Lots of cool new stuff, I even paid money to them.. =\

 

[noobItUp]

Did they actually manage to get the in game advertising to work messy? I know that was the business model they were looking at (free game + in game ads). When I played QL there were just a bunch of placeholders for where the ads would go.

 

[nelots]

Anyone apart from mess go premium on QLive?

And yes noob, they have a 15sec ad running before connecting you to a game server now.

 

[Messenjah]

The actual in-game ads failed. They admit that though. On site and ads before you connect + premium subs is their new approach I think.

 

[noobItUp]

Interesting that the ingame ads failed. I really expect the gaming industry to head more down this path in the next few years. Specially in a 3D environment like an FPS, its perfect. I mean who really cares if you have a coke sign in the background as long as there are good pew pews?

 

[nelots]

^Why would the failed ingame ads be interesting???
They're trying to feed junk through random 'billboards' in a free fps game where most players would be more focused on playing the game than to stop to look at random "MMmmmm donuts for $3.99" ads.
The concept of ingame ads is interesting but in reality we all would rather fast forward through the ads to get to the man'oman action.

 

[noobItUp]

THe ads themselves aren't any more interesting than a jims mowing ad on the telly during the state of origin. Whats interesting is that the format didn't work out.

I don't see those ingame billboards as something that you would want FPS pew pewers to stop and go mmmm donuts, more that they might see a red bull ad out of the corner of their eye and not even realise it.