Carmack Talks Quake Live 36
CVG spoke with John Carmack about the in-development browser-based version of Quake III Arena called Quake Live. He discusses the development team's reasons for the new project and mentions that current mods will not work. However, he adds, "We're in no way shutting down the original Q3A scene, so anybody who wants to build things with the open-source code is still more than free to do so. That may even become a proving ground for moving things into Quake Live." Carmack also says Quake Live will be fully ad-supported to start, but "it's not out of the question that eventually we'll have some kind of a premium service. But we don't know what it's going to be yet, and we're certainly going out with the completely free-to-play model." We've looked at video clips from Quake Live in the past.
Re:Bad summary (Score:3, Insightful)
Yep, totally pointless. After all, everyone knows that OSX and Windows, together, have practically no installed base whatsoever....
Re:Then YouTube isn't browser based either (Score:5, Insightful)
Read the interview, the point is for it be like "youtube for fps" kind of, so there is absolutely no barrier to entry. You just make a login and click a button, instead of paying for the game, installing, installing mods, finding servers.
I like the idea. It will help preven the "game age death" that happens with so many games I love.