Comments on: Quake Live gets hammered, 113,000 people sign up

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:19:29 +0000

Queues – that’s what Carmack meant about stuff that PC’s do best … . It’s an impressive feat though, I’ll give em that.

By: cachucha

cachucha — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:21:08 +0000

I liked the closed beta but these queues are annoying, the game is worth a try itself and its free. Really impressive how they implement it into a browser, carmack is a really good programmer

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:55:09 +0000

It’s apparently just gone tits-up due to server problems, according to what I’ve just read on someone’s Facebook update…

By: David Sarkisjan

David Sarkisjan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:31:35 +0000

I made it through a queue (20, 000 players) in a matter of minutes, so I really don’t know what are you guys talking about.

By: loki

loki — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:27:29 +0000

i better to pay 60$ for normal game, when play this PC-shit

By: Dr.Haggard

Dr.Haggard — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:04:03 +0000

Been playing the beta for a while now, enjoying a few games most lunch hours at work – and finding I’m still the average player I was in 1999 – but now I find myself 11418th in a queue! Jesus.

By: deftangel

deftangel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:35:20 +0000

Managed to get on earlier, very impressive though a download of sorts (around 4mb) is required for the plugin. Does that mean I can rock up at an Internet cafe to play some quake? Hmmm not sure.

Biggest drama I had was trying to play a fast paced PC FPS after a few years of gluttony on console controls. Didn’t do myself much justice

As for the waiting times, there was always going to be an enormous spike when the beta opened up that will be waay higher than their normal usage. Once it evens down a bit I doubt it’ll take so long to get into a game.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:07:56 +0000

But it clearly says “Easy to join” “Play in minutes” on their site.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:57:42 +0000

Registered, and authenticated my email.. only to be told there’s a queue of ~10000 people before me in the queue. Is this a queue to play the game? A queue to do *additional* registration gubbins?

Who knows. Or cares. After watching it increase by 50 users in the space of a minute, I figured this was a *giant waste of time*.

You’ve got the right idea, Blerk. Don’t bother.

Bah.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:54:31 +0000

I was going to try it, but there were forms and stuff and I couldn’t be arsed.