Quake IV No-Show To Distress Hardcore At QuakeCon 42
Thanks to CNN Money for its discussion of the games industry's drive to woo the most committed videogame players, as the article explains: "Hardcore gamers only make up between 20-25 percent of the industry's annual software sales, but the buzz enthusiasts create can turn a moderate hit into a monster." The piece discusses "mecca for the hardcore" QuakeCon, but reveals that "This year, most fans were hoping to get their first glimpse of 'Quake 4,' which is being developed (under id's supervision) by Raven Software. Unfortunately, they're going to have to keep waiting. id CEO Todd Hollenshead said there are no plans to show the game at this year's QuakeCon." According to Hollenshead: "We've been happy with what [Raven has] done, but it's too early to show... When we show the game, we want it to be something that's really impressive for the people who have been waiting for it."
Dissapointing. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Dissapointing. (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what mods are for. CTF and TeamFortress all started as free third party mods.
Re:Dissapointing. (Score:1)
Re:Dissapointing. (Score:2)
They may not be free, but there a several games based off of the Q3 engine, including RTCW, Star Trek Elite Forces, and others.
After playing UR2004 demo... (Score:4, Insightful)
That great UR2004 demo... (Score:1)
I never played Quake (Score:4, Insightful)
Am I disappointed it won't make appearance at QuakeCon? No.. I wasn't going, so why would I care? Sure, I'd like to see some screenshots of the actual game.. but.. I can't say that I am on the edge of my seat waiting for it..
After all, with all the hoopla over the yet-to-appear Halflife2 and Doom3, why should I get all excited about a yet-to-appear Quake4? The bar has been set pretty low on delivery dates for the next generation of FPS's..
jr
Re:I never played Quake (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I never played Quake (Score:1)
Re:I never played Quake (Score:2, Funny)
Also, how'd they fit that whole engine on an Atari cart?
Re:I never played Quake (Score:1)
What now? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What now? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What now? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What now? (Score:1)
As far as i know, Coop will be included in Doom3.
Re:What now? (Score:2)
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/03/0
Re:What now? (Score:2)
IMO what id is best at doing in this day and age is creating game engines and textures. Even the level design skills seem to have tapered off, but then you could as easil
Re:What now? (Score:2)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Score:5, Insightful)
We make fun of DNF, and fairly, because it was shown, screenshots released, etc. long ago. This is fair. The people involved did this to themselves. Doom III and HL2 are now catching some of this heat, and this is fair as well since they were both at their third E3 this year. HL2 is even worse for already being bundled with a video card that will be a generation old when the game is finally released.
But here we have a group of people trying to play it low. The game has technically been announced and thats it. Who is clamoring to see this game so bad that they are disappointed its not be shown yet? Who is being harmed so much that the press is reporting on a game that doesn't yet exist and claiming the disappointment could harm the title? That is absurd. Absurd that people feel this way, absurd that the press is reporting it.
#1 Chill out.
#2 You are not that important.
Don't be a dick just because your arbitrary notion of what a publisher or developer should deliver when is not met. Don't trash the game because you downloaded the leaked "alpha" and it doesn't run well on your system. Being "hardcore" and waiting around for the next big thing should not be something that makes you proud. If you identify yourself as hardcore, you are already about as lame as anything I can imagine. Absurd.
Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree that many of the 'hard core' in anything are serious dipshits. As consumers, you and I can (and likely will) ignore them with abandon. A profit-making corporation does so at the risk of their future.
Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Score:2)
Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Score:3, Insightful)
Id vs id (Score:5, Informative)
It looks especially bad when it's used at the beginning of a sentence.
When I wrote for gaming sites a few years ago I decided to get the correct 'spelling' straight from the horse's mouth so I checked with John Carmack.
He writes it Id so as far as I'm concerned that's how it's written.
On a similar note, a point of trivia: The manufacturer of GeForce graphics cards spells the company name nVIDIA (small 'n') in the logo, but web/magazine editors are asked to use NVIDIA (all caps) in articles. Why? Who knows. I think it makes more sense to spell it with the small 'n' because at least that gives some clue as to how the word is pronounced, ie: enn-vid-ee-aa
Wow... (Score:2)
Off-topic, informative, off-topic, underrated, off-topic...
It's a bit of info about Id in an Id-related thread. Off-topic?
Re:Wow... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Id vs id (Score:1)
It's a normal word, and should be treated as such. Capital 'i' when it's the first word in a sentence. If you look at their website it says "id Software" all over the place, unless "id" is the first word of a sentence, so that's how I use it
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Re:Id vs id (Score:2)
Personally, I follow the same rules you do, and capitalize it at the beginning of a sentence and don't capitalize it otherwise unless by reflex and unintentionally.
Hmmmmm (Score:4, Insightful)
But spend about 3.5 Billion dollars a year on gaming hardware. Perhaps that's why there is a buzz.
vaportalk (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not talk about all the great games that are available right here right now? All the rest is just fluff.
yes yes (Score:3, Insightful)
This industry is most likely going to take a dive because of that sooner or later. It'll be back, or at least stick around for a while in smaller, indie forms, b
Re:yes yes (Score:1)
I must have missed the memo. (Score:3, Interesting)
Putting aside the fact that the 20-25% figure is obviously straight out of a marketing exec's ass, what, exactly, constitutes a "hardcore gamer" nowadays?
Gosh, I love statistics.
Letting the hardcore set the agenda (Score:4, Insightful)
Not Exactly (Score:1)
Id just wants to maximize the exposure of D3 this summer. QIV could definitely make an appearance in some form or anther