Quake Live Updated, Briefly Considered

Bethesda Blog announces a bunch of updates for Quake Live, the most important of which includes new maps for their premium service. Good news for those premium subscribers, I suppose, but I can't help wondering how successful Quake Live has actually been for Id. I play games on there every couple of weeks, and there's almost always a decent EU capture the flag game to be had. That's great, because it means the community is ticking over, but even as a semi-regular user I don't see much reason to pay for a premium account. The competition for this relaunched classic must be particularly tough when the range of free shooters is now so enormous, from the hardcore precision of Warsow, to the Facebooked ease of Uberstrike, to the more mature corporately packaged experience of BFP4F. It can't be easy out there.

It makes me wonder whether any of you lot play a free shooter? More to the point, do any of you lot pay for a free shooter?