I’m not sure if I’m supposed to release this on my blog considering how I’m still under the NDA (Non-Discolsure Agreement), but who cares. It’s only a few days away:
Quake Live is going Open Beta on the 24th of February.
Honestly, I can’t wait for more people to see what it’s like. Gamers nowadays have been spoiled by auto-regenerating health and stuff like that, they’re used to games of epic proportions, stuff like Killzone 2, GTA IV, etc. It’s probably largely the fault of consoles that those are the “mainstream” games nowadays.
For those of you who are used to these games, be warned when trying Quake Live: it’s hard.
Sure you might not find it hard initially, considering how the system will pair you up with people of the same skill level as you so that you don’t get butt raped by 10-year veterans of the game, but just watch the QuakeCon 2008 Quake Live finals here and you’ll see how the game is actually supposed to be played. If you think “oh those 2 are pros, the average player couldn’t possibly be that good”. You’re dead wrong. The average veteran of Quake won’t exactly beat Zero4 or cypher, but they’re still able to pull of some pretty sick shots that’ll make you think they’re actually cheating.
No Love for Asians
Unfortunately, there’s one big problem, there are still ZERO Asian servers. For my entire CONTINENT, we have NO servers. I was fine with it being that way during the closed beta stages, but I never expected them to keep it this way when they went live. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case, which is a really bad idea in my opinion. This game is going to be free, meaning us Asians are going to pounce on it the moment we hear “free, browser based game”. However, id is going to lose plenty of prospective gamers when all Asians realise they’re going to have 300+ ping on every single server, since with Quake Live it’s only possible to play it competitivetly with 30 or 40 ping at most.
Alas, us Asians are going to have to wait awhile more as per usual. 
