ID Software Moving Further Away From Linux, QuakeLive Going Native

Tis a sad day in the Shire when ID decides to make a native game that will not have a Linux version.

It is sad, I really like QL. Won't buy anymore games from ID, fuck them, I have enough steam games now, thanks to Valve. 

I think the age when Quake was something significant for Linux (or any other platform) has passed.

Why would anyone play QuakeLive, which is based on Quake 3 Arena, a 14 year old game!?
Sure it's sad that id software is no longer Linux friendly, but I won't cry about this game and you shouldn't too.

P.S
id software said that only a very insignificant % of QuakeLive players, are Linux users.

Quake Style games are pretty much all Linux has had for years leading up to this recent resurgence of Linux gaming, so another one? No thank you, but from all the Linux games that would/do play, screw you ID.

I want the old Quake and Doom games on Linux, along with a Rage port please.

It is very sad news.
I don't understand ID.
They will have special place in my heart.
And no, I won't say, "fuck them" in many more ways than you imagine - we have more games on Linux thanks to them!
ID please change your mind, i still hope to play Rage one day.

Amusing people are whining (or even surprised) about this. The writing has been on the wall for years (since the Bethesda acquisition certainly). No TTimo and no Carmack means no support for Linux internally. This also means there'll be no release of id Tech 5 (4 was by the skin of its teeth).

Honestly, give a damn. While iD have been okay with their support and Doom 3 / Quake 4 were mildly entertaining, none of their games have ever lived up to the original Doom. I don't really get why people make such a song and dance about them personally.

Every time John Carmack talks, all I hear is "wah wah wah" noises now.

we have more games on Linux thanks to them!

I'd thank Timothee Besset far more for that than iD as a whole.

Well, i personaly don't care so much, QuakeLive wasn't my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong, I spent hours of playing Quake III: Arena( which works on linux) and i loved OpenArena. But this "quake" was just.. I don't know. Of course it's sad, that developers are not going to support Linux or Mac and it's bad for those who liked this game, but hey, we are getting support from others, so don't be sad and there a lot of similiar games :)

Meh, I was in diaper when Quake came out; I never really got into it or Doom for that matter. However, I did recently purchase Duke Nukem 3D on steam for a couple bucks. Surprisingly, it's been quite a blast :)

Sadly, ID is pretty irrelevant now. Quake Live looks like Quake 3, so why not just play Quake 3, It works and I see plenty of severs with no silly sub needed.

I don't see ID making it in the future gaming industry by only supporting one platform. I expect them to disappear as a company in the coming years.

I don't know how many ID linux titles I've played. Quake II is still one of my favorite shooters of all time.

No lost here.

More players to the source games (from linux and mac) and to Xonotic, alien arena, etc. !


go play them ! :)

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TTimo and ID have done a lot for Linux/open source gaming. I appreciate their past but have to frown on their current stance.

A note to ID: I'm sorry you're losing the FPS wars as your early games defined fast paced arena shooters. Wolfenstein, Quake and Doom will always have a place in my memories. Just as with friends who move away, I will try to remember the best of what you did and not what you have become. Unfortunately I can't wish you well as you are now just another Windows game company but if you decide to see the light I will still be here on Linux.

No lost here.

More players to the source games (from linux and mac) and to Xonotic, alien arena, etc. !


go play them ! :)

Second this. Xonotic has enough players, features, maps and options to replace quake live. No subs needed. Also IMO its prettier.

Anyone who looks at linux like a percentage of users is ignorant. We could look at windows in relation to contributations to the operating system ecosystem and then i wonder who has a greater perentage. This statement is just a mix of bad marketing decisions and quite honestly laziness on the part of the developers (Yes, developing cross compatible games is much easier these days than developers care to mention)

I don't see ID making it in the future gaming industry by only supporting one platform. I expect them to disappear as a company in the coming years.

I share the same point of view, really id made some great games in the past and was important for the early days of FPSs but what innovation did they bring to games? I mean, they made Commander Keen series and they kind of got stuck on FPSs, nothing new, Rage wasn´t the success they expected, nowadays we have a lot of options (example how Valve refreshed FPSs with the excellent Half-Life series), they forgot to innovate in my opinion, this news don´t affect me at all, once more they are getting stuck, the future is multplatform development, it can be very risk to concentrate in one platform in my point of view.

Now, without Linux, the big success of quake live can start! OMG a "reinvented game from 1999" , why should people play it?
For me this is really no loss and I think the OpenSource games are MUCH better nowadays. For example Xonotics(Nexuz) Alien Arena ....

I concur with a lot of the sentiment already expressed, so I won't repeat it.

Quake blew me away at the time and is still one of my all time favourite games. Admittedly I've not played that many FPS as I've only been a sporadic Windows user but it was about the only one I can remember where I thought the music added to the experience, superbly atmospheric. Without wanting to sound patronising, unless you lived through these changes in computing it might be hard to imagine how exciting something like Quake was! Super graphical games are the norm, run-of-the-mill now. That's for another thread though!

ID innovated at that time but since have stagnated somewhat. I really enjoyed Doom and Quake 4 also. Thanks for the memories ID.

One of the best games ever.
So what about a GOL QuakeLive gaming session before we lose the game?