Quake Live

Anyone tried it? I just registered and got sent to this page:

Position in queue: 35,082

#&$%§&%!!!!! Waiting for an hour now and nothing happens.

I signed up pretty sharpish so I missed the intial queuing problems, although getting a game now takes a fair bit of forward planning! I've basically just left it open in my browser all day while I've been at work, and eventually I get in and get a game. Unfortunately the site has gone down a couple of times today, so even once in I don't stay in for long :S

Add ReNo as a friend if anyone fancies a game some time. Probably once it all quietens down a bit!

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I've been on as part of the closed beta, damn these new queues!

Having said that I haven't played anywhere near as much as I would have liked, too much college on. gwilmarx is my username.

After crashing a few times i got to take the training session and i did well but when it was uploading my stats it crashed. i waited through the queue again and took the test again. it then crashed again. Im waiting in the queue (35000) to take the test again a day later...

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Reality has become a commodity.

I don't really get why they make you wait in queue twice or even 3 times in a row, instead of getting it done in one go.

Anyway, I got in and it was quite fun. It is also very simple vanilla Q3 with an added website to track your stats. I initially thought it actually lets you play in any browser, OS-independent, but it's really just a plugin to start Q3 from a browser-link. So, yea... Q3 was fun in 1999, it still is, but I have a hard time seeing the "revolution" here.

Yeah, it's build on Silverlight, bleh. There's not a lot of options for unpacking an executable onto a person's computer from a website. There's activex, but that's not going to give platform independence. There's shockwave, but, I don't think that will either.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

the only thing I could see as an improvement is the platform system allowing you to see friends