![]() I would rather that a game company like ID spend more time really innovating in the gaming engine space (and I know they are), rather than repackaging the same game in different ways for a decade.* Yes, there's social aspects, background content delivery, easy multi-player matching, but why is this a DLL living inside the browser's memory space and not an EXE that jumps out of the browser? Do I want something that I think of as a browser plugin downloading 256megs+ of content for me? Why is no one pointing out that the emperor frag-fest has no clothes?Īpparently this is interesting to the young people today because the ones playing Quake Live because they weren't alive when Quake was released originally. It's the same PAK file concept and format that you (possibly) remember from ten years ago. I'm sorry, but this is a re-imagining of Quake III Arena, compiled as a DLL and running inside my browser. It gets downloaded in the background while you "train." Why do you think they train you for 10 minutes in a single level? It's because they are downloading the other 1/4 gig of content. See this screenshot? That's my %appdata% folder with 266 MEGS downloaded. You must reload the web page to make this display go away.Ī web (or web-enabled) app that doesn't phone home with errors? Hm. ![]() Please report the the problem you encountered on the Quake Live forums. ![]() ** GLW_CreateWindow: could not register window class I download and installed both installers separately. There's a separate MSI if you want to run it in Firefox. See this screenshot? That's IE requesting permission to run this plugin. See the screenshot below? That's the MSI installer I ran as Admin. More importantly, it also implies a reason to be in the browser. To say, browser-based game, to me, implies effortless installation. I'm having trouble understanding is why this is interesting in any way?įolks on the 'tubes are saying, "OMG, this is a Browser-based game?" So I installed and have been playing QuakeLive.
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