Quake Champions (from E3 2016)

[Xtyfe]

Little Timmy Willits is the reason why ID is still a shambling corpse. I think it's time he retires like all the old guard have. ID can't keep up with console kiddie generation and even Bethesda doesn't seem to trust them with being able to do anything right.

[wildweasel]

Little Timmy Willits is the reason why ID is still a shambling corpse. I think it's time he retires like all the old guard have. ID can't keep up with console kiddie generation and even Bethesda doesn't seem to trust them with being able to do anything right.

While I'm in support of Tim retiring, I'd rather it be for the right reasons: his misguided support for always-on DRM and his sincere belief that new games make it too hard to release modding tools.

[Xtyfe]

Exactly, either the corporate suits have gotten to him or he's totally lost touch with reality. Either way he shouldn't be developing at the level he does with attitudes like that.

[Kinsie]

Another Quake Champions Interview.

To summarise: Still Not A MOBA, Q1-inspired level theme, Q3-inspired player movement, no loadouts, character abilities give you new options in certain situations "without changing the way you play Quake", absolutely no clue how they're gonna monetise it yet.

[Xtyfe]

Well I'll be fucked, looks like they learned something after all. So wait, is this going to be a f2p/p2w?

[Kinsie]

So wait, is this going to be a f2p/p2w?

As I mentioned in the summary, they haven't decided yet.

[Ghastly]

no loadouts

Good. That was what I was really concerned about. Not a huge fan of the different characters with different abilities, because there's no way to really play around it. If they were items you pick up, for example, if you didn't want your opponent to have that wall-hack visor, you could control it.

[TheMightyHeracross]

GC: I don’t think you’ve said, but how are you monetising the game?
TW: We haven’t talked about that yet. We’re still working that out. But we do want to make sure we have as many people as we can. I mean Quake Live has been free-to-play since 2008, but we’ll figure something out that’s inclusive enough.

Oh, is it now?

[SamVision]

Quake Live has not been free for a while now.

[TheMightyHeracross]

Exactly my point. It seems Willits has forgotten this.

[Jeimuzu73]

Quake just turned 20 yesterday, so I thought I'd celebrate by playing the original. FSR the mouse keeps moving even though I haven't moved the mouse physically which makes things a little more dizzy.

[The Zombie Killer]

and his sincere belief that new games make it too hard to release modding tools.

this alone is enough to make me want him to retire

[Kinsie]

Because so much came out of the incredibly user-friendly RAGE mod tools.

[BFG]

did they do the same thing as Quake 2? and slap the Quake name on the product on last minute? that's clearly a different game.

[Xtyfe]

Because so much came out of the incredibly user-friendly RAGE mod tools.

They made the tools such a huge pile of shit didn't they? Saying that "New games make me scurrred" is no excuse.