I can't believe it ! (number of Quake Live players)

[DeeDoubleU]

QL is only dying because ID is allowing it to die. There so many ways to get QL more known.

I know several people who have been playing FPS for years and have never heard of quake before. I don't play blame them... I didn't hear of quake much when I was playing 1.6 either

They always have their reasons to do so, alas we rarely know these reasons.

[Limbless_Pony]

BTW, I read somewhere that 60 million games were played in first year of QL. That's the more important thing than just number of accounts people created. And it's a really impressive number.

Two guys dueling together on a daily basis (let's say 2 hours a day) can add as many as 3-4k matches to the yearly pool. Multiply this by, say, 4k active duelist pairs and add quits/forfeits/I-got-dced-but-the-match-stll-counts; suddenly, the 60 milion matches become quite a reasonable amount

Whether it's astonishing or not, though, it's a clear proof that anyone insisting that QL is oh-so-dead is most likely a spy from some CoD/CS/Halo community whose only goal is to weaken the morale of Quake players ^^

[Lam]

Yeah, don't listen to the failed saboteurs. And whatever you say, tens of millions make a nice number anyhow!

[KETNAR]

The people who cry that the 'game is dying' are probably looking at all the wrong data. (read: speculating very poorly)

Lets face some basic facts:

1. Most gamers don't care for forums, naysayers assume low forum activity = low playercount when the opposite is true, low forum activity usually means less things going wrong and more people busy fragging.
2. Most people don't play 'every day'.
3. Most people don't play the same game type every day.
4. Most people don't play at the same time they did last time. (Timezones, free time, work, school, kids, etc.)
5. Most people have a game-rotation. they play Quakelive for a while, then some TF2 for a while, or whatever other games they play, and then loop back around. For others quake is their main game.
6. FULL SERVERS DO NOT SHOW UP. (Most naysayers don't realize this, and thus experience a sort of 'nobody playing' illusion.)
7. People tend to avoid 'naysayers', as most of them tend to be talkative, whiny annoying twits in game, and servers slowly empty out around them. (This helps the illusion)
8. Etc, Etc, Etc..

Combine this with Spakk's post and the info that sponge has told us, and Qlive is actually doing pretty good. And..well, naysayers are still dumb..but that's not news.

[Fi]

Let's take a look at the number of subscribers. There are blue awards now. One kind of interesting.

The Last Laugh
Get more frags than deaths in a game.

* 7 friends (41% of total) have earned this award
* 15485 players (1% of total) have earned this award

I have about 20 friends, all of them subscribers. It's not an absolute fact, but statistically that turns into 37700 subscribers so far. That is at least $900'000 counting everyone at Premium rate.

All the servers are courtesy of unpaid volunteers. Let's say 20 employees have been working on Quake Live for 4 years now. That would be $900 a month each. Overall, a lot of money, but we shouldn't blame them for running a tight ship.

[DocPossible]

This thread is thread of the year for me so far

Nice one Spakk.

[KittenIgnition]

Just a quick aside,

The Christmas award should be showing the amount of players who earned it. No conspiracies here, just a weird bug. I checked the database manually just now and found we had 57K people who played a match on either of the holiday maps. Over the holiday season, we had 78k players on the website.

isnt it, like, against some kind of stupid policy to tell us how many people are playing?

[DeeDoubleU]

isnt it, like, against some kind of stupid policy to tell us how many people are playing?

Not all inside info is under NDA, but its safer to only say what you must, instead of consulting with Big Brother about every maybe-allowed answer.

[*4all]

Brave New World
Play 10 matches on a premium map.
2078 players

seriously only 2078 players have played 10 matches on premium maps?

How long has this award been out?

I would pay for pro service if there were any1 to play against. Diving the community with the pro thing is Horse ****. Either make every1 subscribe or no1. Geez

[DocPossible]

seriously only 2078 players have played 10 matches on premium maps?

How long has this award been out?

I would pay for pro service if there were any1 to play against. Diving the community with the pro thing is Horse ****. Either make every1 subscribe or no1. Geez

On a premium map. afaik it means you've played 10 games on one map, not 10 premium map games in total. I might be wrong, but it took me a while to get this, having played on a load of Premium maps. I think it was my 10th CA defeat on Overkill that got it for me