Quake Champions goes from free to paid, with no more content updates planned

I had a brief arena shooter phase but none of them really stuck, sad to see qc go down like this

If you want real Quake, just get Quake 3. Tons of people still play it. Or snag Xonotic.

For me it went from “didn’t know it existed” to “not interested in playing it”.

I finally gave it another go. I tried it years ago for about twenty minutes and promptly uninstalled it when all the microtransactions got up in my face. Refreshing to see a company do the right thing, but I’m sad to say that I uninstalled it again. This isn’t really Quake to me. Outlines showing where your opponents are, announcer notifying the quad has spawned, the shotgun being reduced from a death stick to a pea shooter, what’s up with that? The movement feels less like you’re running at breakneck speed and more like you’re hovering around like a friendly little ghost. Everything just felt off.

I haven’t played this since the time I ended a friendship over the phone while fragging.

It had nothing to do with the game, but I’m pretty sure that was the last time I ever logged into it.

Fucker literally offered me 20 bucks to convince my sister (who he had never really met outside of maybe seeing her at school) to go on a date with him.

Anyway, I fucking instantly and wordlessly hung up. I asked him to repeat it to make sure I hadn’t heard him wrong or to see if he was kidding, and he doubled down on it. Hung up and never talked to him again. I knew him from high school and given when Quake Live started, (and how early I tried it) it was several years after I would’ve graduated college (if I ever finished it).

I hadn’t even talked to him for a while, it was kind of a “hey how you been” kinda call/conversation until he brought that up. Never heard from him again. Heard a small mention of him from a mutual friend that he felt bad about it but I don’t care. I wouldn’t have cared if he offed himself about it, I am still just as pissed today, and if I ever have to interact with him again I will let him know exactly who I am and what I remember about him.

But given that I barely played any Quake games, this story is what I think about when QL gets brought up.

I hope he’s still depressed somewhere.

And yet if they just added offline bots, I would uninstall most other shooters on my PC. Instead, I play QC:DE, Q3A and Xonotic lol