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How do you think the launch event went?

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Started 3 years ago by BootGuyJoe
Latest reply from hatestreets
poll: How did it go?
It went very well! :-) : (2 votes)

18 %

It was terrible! :-( : (5 votes)

45 %

Was good, but could've been a lot better. : (0 votes)

Was bad, but could've been a lot worse. : (3 votes)

27 %

It was so-so : (1 votes)

9 %

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BootGuyJoe

Pubhero
Joined: Jan '09
Posts: 51

Open beta is finally upon us. How do you think the transition went? Have any good/horror stories to share?

My opinion: For me, I have to say it went pretty badly. I got stuck in a 30k line, going back and forth in the queue, and whenever I did make it in, I was forced to re-play Crash over and over. I tried waiting again three (3) times to see if reconnecting solved anything, and it didn't. I never even got to play online in the end.

Now considering how small the id team is, I think they're doing the best they can. It could've been a lot worse. But never-the-less, somebody on that team seriously underestimated the popularity of Quake Live.

Posted 3 years ago #
Lashknife

Pickupeteer
Joined: Nov '08
Posts: 274

tbh, I expected a huge crash at start due to popularity, but their queuing system works. It's a choice:
- either everybody gets in, slow site load times, bad <1KB/s download speeds, overall lag!
- or a queue which is annoying if you're in it, but once through, gives a solid performance.

For me it went very well, because i got instantly in it seems, maybe i was too fast for the masses, but I had instant crash match download, and played the test while finishing main download.
I had to try once, then went back to browser to calculate my performance, and it reloaded the crash match. I canceled it, clicked from home to profile to home again, and it finished the performance calculation.

hooray for me but I'm a lucky bastard on occasion

Then for the fun I logged out and in, because I was curious about that queuing thing everybody was talking about and I hadn't seen it. so log out and kablam: 15K before me

I didn't bother anymore yesterday evening and I'll see what gives tomorrow evening after my etqw nc game.

Posted 3 years ago #
Malice

Fragmeister
Joined: Nov '08
Posts: 533

Well I first was a bit surprised to be in a queue of 5000+ people.
But then I saw it went pretty quickly and I was entertained by the special welcome vids/voice message they had installed.

Was sad when I saw someone already registered Malice again, even though old account was deleted. Though was glad I pwned crash 15 - 0

I'm also amazed by the tutorials they've written and the reorganization of the forum. I'm expecting the quake live team will be organizing a large part of community aspects themselves, eg. announce tournaments and what not more.

I was too late to experience the tutorial bug so the experience was excellent for me

Quake Live Nations Cup 2009 Now running!!
This is quake: Get Quaked 3 & w3sp strafes

Posted 3 years ago #
BootGuyJoe

Pubhero
Joined: Jan '09
Posts: 51

I just got on a little while ago. You lucky bastards.

Posted 3 years ago #
Malice

Fragmeister
Joined: Nov '08
Posts: 533

Well I didnt really get to play much

At work now

Quake Live Nations Cup 2009 Now running!!
This is quake: Get Quaked 3 & w3sp strafes

Posted 3 years ago #
xephyr

Pickupeteer
Joined: Nov '08
Posts: 216

Position in queue: 31539. I lol'd

Though I consider it positive that so many people are interested in Quake Live.

Visit our Quake Live community & pickup channel

Posted 3 years ago #
fetzer

Bring it on
Joined: Dec '08
Posts: 5

I want closed beta back

Spent 2 hours in various queues, just to recognize, that my firefox browser didn't allow
me to advance in queue. After I could solve the browsers problem, I finally managed to get
to play crash, just to get an error message "you have no active account" or something.

Replayed crash.

Spent some more hours in various queues just to realize that servers still lag cyclic for all
players and that also the median iq of the player base had decreased again .|

At the moment I feel like going back to q3 would be better 4 me.

Posted 3 years ago #
hatestreets

Pubhero
Joined: Jan '09
Posts: 53

I gatta say i am a little upset.... 1. the line.. bs 2. the announcement that private servers when they come...come with a membership fee of 15-30$ Weak sauce... Really thought they could of done a way better job at preparing for this launch... i mean 50k + in que is quite embarrassing... who droped the ball on those numbers... but over all i would have to say its nice to know quake is back 50k is a shit load of people interested in ql.. but to have to wait in line is well how you say WEAK SAUCE!

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