![]() It was fresh in 2000-2005 but then games evolved and Quake stayed the same. It lacks complexity that keeps the people engaged. Despite what people on this sub believe, Quake is very straightforward game. Yes, it was a fun game, but it got old and boring. ![]() Quake is not getting the Hugo Martin's and the Marty Stratton's of Id Software, it would be naive to think otherwise, but I hope that it is fully assigned to MachineGames, for instance (Wolfenstein series)įor the very same reason Pacman is not popular anymore despite being on top at some point. ![]() To the very least though, my personal hope is that this time around Quake will be outsourced to someone competent, unlike QC with its infamous collaboration of Saber Interactive and Syncerror. Thus, Quake is not likely to succeed in the future. I think the next Quake game will be once again outsourced, because this has been the trend for over 20 years, and Doom Eternal was a smash hit. Thus, no wonder the product stuck in a dark corner is not seeing the same sales as the one getting all of the resources. ![]() Quake was purposely left behind, in order to make Doom be its storefront attraction. The best employees and resources from Id Software have not touched any Quake game in two decades. Instead, Doom had all of the focus of the main dev team from the year 2000 to 2004 (Doom 3), then the company went into a bit of a slump (2005 to 2008 - resulting in Id Software being purchased by Zenimax in 2009), then they focused on Rage (2007 to 2011), then Doom 2016 (2012 to 2016), and recently Doom Eternal (2017 to 2020). I just described you the entire franchise history in this millennium: nothing noteworthy. Quake 4 wasn't developed by Id but by Raven Software, Quake Live was a copypasting job from Quake 3 and done by two low-level employees (with Carmack and arQon at the beginning helping them as a side job for a few months), and Quake Champions was 90% outsourced (and the other 10% going to once again those low-level employees). Quake 3 was the last game made by the main team of Id Software, back in 1999. The company probably sees both franchises as competitors to each other, so one had to have the preference. The reason behind that decay is that Id Software chose Doom to be its main franchise. Quake is like Pac-Man: name rings a bell, but that's it. Go mention 'Quake' to a friend of yours: he/she will tell you that the last time he/she heard about it was in the 90s. ![]() People are not playing Quake because this is just an old franchise that hasn't had a hit since 1999. The fact that most new players nowadays are casual to the point of even struggling at stuff like the marauder in doom eternal in the easiest difficulties, Ion Fury and even Shadow warrior 2, since they would rather play with a controller than a MKB. therefore the infamous "you need a 240hz screen to play" when people like COOLLER plays with 60hz ones with no problems, once again, id's incompetence which filtered more people. Saber Engine fucking the entire game, QC should had been Idtech6 at most, we know now that the engine is stable for multiplayer and is light even for toasters, which saber engine isn't it. The fact that the 2 groups above along with id's incompetence fucked off the game's reputation, most of them being idiots who never played and came on to call it a overwatch clone, WHICH ISN'T it!, in fact it was even the old Q3A concept which didn't went forward due to tech and idtech 3 limitations, and years later Unreal Championship 2 used it and it was a good game, those 2 pops up always at steam forums or 4chan /v/ boards, the hipocrisy in all of this is that most of them plays nowadays Overwatch and Fartnite. Resources and Linksīecause the quake community is fractured and full of vocal idiots who thinks that all games suck and theirs is better, which is the Q1 mapping community who hates even multiplayer or quake sequels, since most of them are manchildren who even hates Doom Modding for being more open minded to everything instead of "Muh puritanism", and Q3/QL hivemind from places like ESR forums who hates anything that isnt their clubhouse, Q1 Community Hates quake 2 with passion and even spread lies about Romero hating it when he loved the game and mainly the multiplayer. There are a few devs that roam this reddit.
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