1- You are on the forum of q3arena.com but do you ever read the news also on the main page?

2- With Doom 3 coming, do you think that Quake 3 (or any Quake) is dying?

3- Are you interrested in Quake 3 mod related news? What kinf of news do you wanna know and wich one you don't f***ing care?

4- On a more personnal note, what do you think about planetquake? Their the biggest in town for any Quake related news and their tough to match since they've got people working for them full time who get a salary for that. Q3arena.com is more of a volunteer job. (if you want to know my humble opinion, I like planetquake, but they've got so many ads that get on my nerve.. )

I'm asking this since, like I said, some major changes are coming. Basically I want to make that site more popular than it is right now (I've been here since the beggining of quake2.com :P ) and Doom3 is coming and we will cover it for sure. I alreader spoken with the bosses of this site and they are willing so far to let me run a couple of ideas that I've got. I'm just wondering where the readers stand in this (i.e. if you care or not).
Thank you!

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1- You are on the forum of q3arena.com but do you ever read the news also on the main page?

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I basically read everything that's new on the page. I do not look at the POTD however.

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2- With Doom 3 coming, do you think that Quake 3 (or any Quake) is dying?

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It all depends on its multiplayer abilities. For example, even if R2CW is really great, with a lot of multiplayer and such, it haven't meant the end of Q3.

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3- Are you interrested in Quake 3 mod related news? What kinf of news do you wanna know and wich one you don't f***ing care?

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I love to know there are new Mac-compatible mods (as I am a Mac user). I enjoy reading about what's up lately. Latest mods, good or bad. As for the update to the (hardly ever) much anticipated "Eyeballs Mod" v1.04 that doesn't crash your machine as much as the 1.03 and that uses less than 98% of your CPU, well, I don't especially care. ;-)

No, what I care personally are the latest mod news for highly-used mods (like GTKRadiant) and maps, as well as to know there are new mods out there that (might) interest me.

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4- On a more personnal note, what do you think about planetquake? Their the biggest in town for any Quake related news and their tough to match since they've got people working for them full time who get a salary for that. Q3arena.com is more of a volunteer job. (if you want to know my humble opinion, I like planetquake, but they've got so many ads that get on my nerve.. )

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I love PlanetQuake for one precise thing: the Plans. However, since I have a finger software on my comp, well, I've put the two people I care about in my fingering list and I check them everyday (John and Graeme).

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Thank you!

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Although I don't really mind you host sites, I would definitely like that the hosted sites to be kept alive somehow.

I don't even look at them anymore, the first two I saw weren't updated since 1998. Even in my sites, I try to at least update once a year ... So yes, they make the site look bigger, but they tend to cripple mods that try to actually make a living in the site (if there are any that are still active).

2-I play quake 3 still, RtCW still has most of my attention though, perhaps having some news on ALL Quake 3 engine games would bring in the viewers!

3-Yup, I like quake 3 mods. News good!

4-Planetquake and gamespy have much too much advertising. If I can find the same info on another site, I will.

You're welcome

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2- With Doom 3 coming, do you think that Quake 3 (or any Quake) is dying?
Yep. I think Q3 has been dying for a while as it didn't have the substance that Quake and Q2 had (single player, etc.) Also, the split between HPBs and LPBs is even greater now than it was 'back in the day' when everyone had 200-400 ping and it's too frustrating.

3- Are you interrested in Quake 3 mod related news? What kinf of news do you wanna know and wich one you don't f***ing care? I don't play any mods (hardly even Q3) anymore, but I like the community. If news is around on a cool-looking mod I'll have a look at the map, character and weapon renders but that's about as far as I'll go.

4- On a more personnal note, what do you think about planetquake? It's good for news and sometimes an interesting article or POTD, but that's about it. Their hosted sites are the greatest. However, I think PQ has gone downhill over the past year or so, Dear Mynx has gone, the Mailbag is utter crap, the humor they try to inject into PQ just seems lame. Maybe I'm just getting old and want something new with games, but all I ever see is the same old thing. A Counter-Strike/Urban Terror clone mod with beautifully rendered (unskinned) weapons that will never make it into the game and the mod will never be finished. But I digress PlanetQuake is a good resource and central to the community, but I don't know if I really like it.

Don't fear to post guys, I'm curious to know what you think about all this.. :P

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I find it unclear that the e-mail/password on the main page are for Mail addresses while the forums have another mail/password.

When you know it and understands it, it's fine. However, it took me the second registration in order to understand it.

As a backfire, I am now the proud owner of another E-mail address, not that I needed it but the address is cool anyways so I intend to keep it.

2. I don't see Q3 dying anytime soon. At least not with me and the crowd I play with. And it's a big crowd and we play a lot.

3. I play 2 mods. JB/POW and Threewave. I keep up with the news surrounding those two already. Don't care about any others.

4. Planetquake? Where's that?

I basically check in here everyday because there's good people here and I've made a few good friends since I started coming here.
Wanna liven things up? Get Horka Thane back

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It must kinda suck having people not read the new stuff on the front page and link to the forums. I appoligize for this but I am very busy these days with my baby.

I do not like Planetquake. They have gotten too corporate but I understand how revenue is needed at some point.

Hello DGhost!

Thx for your comments gang!

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You aren't GFK under a differnt name or somethin' are ya? I just...ya know...inquiring minds want to know.

And again, not being a prick...just trying to shed some light on this all...

Have a nice day

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I'm just going to respond to your questions as a whole, DGhost.

When I first started coming here, I used to skim the news, mostly cause I wanted to know what the latest point release was. Other than that I really wasn't interested in anything else, that hasn't really changed much. I still have the main page bookmarked, but I haven't read anything there in months now, to tell the truth, I haven't visited the site in quite some time. I don't really think that Quake in general is dying, as far as I know, Quake, and Q2 still have a strong following. I think though, that the idea of a site completely dedicated to the Quake genre (or any other game for that matter), has lost it's novelty. There are exceptions, Planetquake is great, not just because of it's dedication, but because it diversifies and changes as it needs to, when Doom3 comes out, it'll still be Planetquake, just with q1, q2, q3, D3. The Mod of the week section has got to be my favorite. I don't usually play mods (save for ThreewaveCTF and OSP) but I like being able to check the different ones out. Of course, since I had to go back to Dial-up, I haven't played much of anything.

Bottom line: Diversify, don't just stick to one game or even one genre, try and branch out a little more. And don't use quake3world as a model for anything. They've only survived cause what's his nut(one of the Id guys) posts there. That place is just NOT appealing to me.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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I think Quake3World, PlanetQuake and Gamespy.com all have the same news source. That is, when news gets posted at one place, it's posted everywhere. I think they're in cahoots.

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I'm trying to post quality news bout the world of Quake 3 so that I don't bore people to death with some planetishquake news about a guys who released one textures in beta forms to use only during a night of full moon to use on some weapons that no one care about :P

When Doom 3 will be released, q3arena.com will follow.. for your information the founder of the page already bought the domain name d00m.com The name will change (like from quake2.com to q3arena.com) but we will still cover news about IDsoftware games. And after Doom 3 it's gonna be Quake 4.

For the moments, the co founder told me that they were only trying to survive until Doom 3. In average now, we get about 2500 hits par day on the webpage. That's pretty low compare to the 60 000 hits per day this site used to get. I want to make it better because I love Quake, I love IDsoftware. I do it for the readers, but first of all I do it for myself.

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1.- Yes, I always read the news.

2.- Again yes, I think Quake3 is dying. I don't have stoped to think why but it is not like used to be when Quake2, I agree with Red in that.

3.- I am not playing Q3 at the moment (RTCW) and I don't have it installed on my system so I am not very interested in new mods or so, but I like to read about news from ID, new FPS shooters using Q3 engine, flashback news like your expierence with Alpha version...

4.- I like PQ, but I think there is too many information that many times I don't need. I like it because you can find everything there, the hosted sites are great and I like very much the pic of the day (but only when the pics are kind of personal like "where you rock" theme).

Anyway I spend more time in this site than in PQ, perhaps it is because I find this site more close to me, more familiar... I don't know but I like all the gang here.

Pic of the day thread

Or you could send me your desktop!

desktop as pic of the day?

Thx for your comments, I appreciate it!

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Although this is my first message in more than a year.

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Now my spelling sucks like hell and I have never, ever even tried my hands at a thing like this. So don't expect too much.

Okay I'm gonna go try sparth by Nunuk..

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But also pretty stupid for a post... Maybe the average age of the posters culd explains a lot of things....

Techno music!!!!!!

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