How much more?

[Sar]

How long do you think Q3 has left as a popular game? How long before it goes the way of QW and Q2, with only small stagnant communities and few leagues?

 

[LTF]

Ages mate, q2 is still quite popular and thats as old as the hills. Until Q4 comes along Q3 will hold its own IMO..

 

[throdgrain]

Personally I wouldnt be suprised to see q2 more popular than q3 in another year.So long as there's wepstay off servers about of course

 

[Chameleon]

As long as it takes for ID to release the next instalment of this genre imho

 

[tooty]

reckon about 6months-1yr after q4 is released. they'll still b plenty of ppl playing the mods on q3 til their similars come out on q4

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

For a while. Most peeps can run Q3 quite easily, and as already pointed out, Q2 is still going strong too

CS of course ownzzz you all

/me runs back to hide in CS forum.

But seriously, I do believe it will last a long time to come. Well, until Doom 3 comes out anyway.

 

[Orin Askhammare]

1 to 1.5 years should certainly be possible, unless some unforseen great game comes along that boasts all the match functionality of OSP The BW leagues are still going strong afaik

 

[throdgrain]

The great problem in Q3 for me , apart from the fact that I found DM very boring (my opinion only , i'm aware) is that I never found many servers with people on them.Certainly not BW servers anyway.The only server I ever found that was truly busy was that eu/uk one, and that didnt have any map rotation.Truly,truly boring.
Oh, I'm sorry ,that one in Holland too,I forget the name.
The CTF servers on the other hand were (and are) always full and have very good players there.
But after a lot of trying, and a new PC would you beleive, I ended up going back,disallusioned, to Q2, where I remained bored for some time.
Thank God I found CS !

 

[Chameleon]

I see cosmos on the forum .........

/me pauses for the QW comment

 

[old.Pecca-ve]

I´m probably going to start playing q4 when it comes out... but there will still be q3 until they have done good mods and/or pointreleases.

 

[SpUnKyTh3MoNk3y]

maybe until ut2 ships if u believe the hype ...btw does q4 actually have a scheduled release date or is everyone just assuming it'll happen at some point?

 

[Wij]

DM has been boring since QW. QW is the only plain clan-DM that gives me a semi

Q3 CTF seemed too similar to the DM. Therefore I never played much Q3.

Q4 may kill it off but I'd be surprised if UT2 didn't lose it quite a number before then. Ok, there will always be the Hardcore "Quake Engines 0wnz Unreal Engines" crowd but lets face it, what decent non-realism multiplayer FPS has there been since Q3/UT ? None. People are getting bored and the next decent Unreal/Quake title is gonna get a hella number of players.

(all my crappy opinion of course )

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Right now, it's the RA style games that people are playing. CA and Capturestrike.

People will keep playing Q3 for these type of games, as nearly all the weapons have a use.

 

[raw.]

I'd go with what cham said, everyone moved from q2 when q3 was realised.. q2 is still being played now also, i reckon theres plenty of life in it yet.