Actually the queues have subsided to just a couple of minutes now, but last night they were swollen with tens of thousands of people trying to log on to the new service. Apart from being over-subscribed and the verification emails taking a while to turn up, the browser-launched Quake 3 is looking good. The front end system, with its rankings and insta-matching systems, appears remarkably solid and easy to navigate. Why not go and have a look? It’s completely free, after all.
I’m going to try and get enough time with it to post some deeper and more coherent impressions later in the week, but it does given me the fear that I’ll be dragged back into my decade-old Quake addiction. That game is just too slick.
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There’s only so much you can do when you’re giving away an extraordinarily popular game away for free.
What’s the set up?
Do they have lots of servers located in major countries/states?
Who runs these?
I suppose is a spike. On day #1 you get 200.000 players, or something like that, maybe much more, and after that, things go normal to 2000 ~ 6000 players. Buying hardware for 200.000 players that after 6 days willl server only 2000 is a waste. Hence, a queue (to make these that can play, have good ping).
@ Radiant:
More here.
For those of you who want something to do while waiting in line, try this (Firefox + Greasemonkey required):
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?p=68768
Back up now, 25000 places to go :(
Man I love queues. Only around 25000 to go. Go go go!
…and it’s down again. :(
It seems that are getting 500 subscription every minute from europe. :-)
Umm, I’ll come back in the morning, think there may be a lot of americanos trying to get in. Not saying its a bad thing necessarily, but its bad for the queue length 30k +!?
I remember trying out my invite a few weeks ago late at night and worried that this would be a bust seeing only 3 people online.
Meh, I got my beta invitation 2 weeks ago, had never played Q3 before but had some Warsow experience so it was at the same time the “woa this is new and cool etc”-feeling, and the “heh, at least I don’t COMPLETELY suck”-feeling, so I was quite enjoying it, playing 1-2 hours a day..
..and now I can’t play anymore since there are 40000 people in the queue in front of me :(
Oh well, I’m sure it will calm down a bit. Maybe I should just go play with the Scout update.
Position in queue: 56972
Liked this better when it was still in beta :P
omg got to the top of a 25000 queue to dl 1 thing and then get in a 60000 queue :/
It still IS in beta. It’s just in Open Beta. Which lets them find out things like the fact that their servers aren’t capable of handling fifty-thousand people’s worth of extra capacity.
Wait, this isn’t cross-platform? It’s a browser game that’s OS-specific?!
Load up Q3 again, anyone?
What are U guys goin on about? Qued? i never had to wait for that shit. Just loaded up any updates and jumped on a server :S easy as that.