Quake Champions - July 2018

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Published on July 7, 2018 4:12:23 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkyQpkPOy8

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Quake Champions (2017)

Duration: 5:53

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I've been playing Quake ever since Quake 1. The fun of joining a match on the mode and map you want, and playing uninterrupted against other humans who may either dominate you, or get dominated by you, or challenge you on the level is something that never gets old.

But in Quake Champions, Bethesda has decided to do with all of that "fun" crap, and with each subsequent patch they are removing everything "Quake" in Quake Champions.

* Now we no longer get to play the mode or map we want - forced playlists introduced in June 2018
* Now, instead of playing against humans, you start the match with 6 bots and are lucky if you get 3 other humans and 4 other bots - patches in June and July 2018 making the issue worse and worse
* netcode has been getting worse and worse in each update since late 2017

Back when this game had a player count in the few hundreds, it would take me on average 3 minutes to queue for a game that I wanted to play.

Then they released this game for free less than a month ago, and even with 17,000 players in game my waiting time has remained on average 3 minutes... but now with bots, and no choice in game mode/map.

A lot of people have been complaining about this, and the player count has decreased DRASTICALLY in less than a month!
- June 17: 17,000+ - https://ibb.co/kmuabo
- July 7th 3pm GMT: 3,000+ - https://ibb.co/hAeabo

Instead of fix these issues, Bethesda have gone ahead and made the option of changing your in-game name cost $15 in their in game store, and the best part: they claimed it was done "due to high demand!!" - which is a complete lie. But the real high demand to revert this game to a playable state has been completely, and continues to be ignored.

I'm not one for complaining and whining... I don't care about which champion or weapon is overpowered, and whatnot... but Bethesda is really taking the cake with this one.

This game was WAY more playable over a year ago in early beta than it is today. But Bethesda focuses on releasing worthless cosmetic items in their store that sometimes cost almost as much as the entire game, instead of fixing performance and netcode issues that have been introduced with each new cosmetic-focused update.

Remember when Uwe Boll got tons of hate for taking games and creating horrible movies that destroyed the memory of those games?

Well, Bethesda have done a good job of taking Quake, and creating a caricature of a game that is not fun at all and is clearly nothing more than a cash grab.

Bethesda deserve all of the hate they are getting in the forums. And the fanboys who keep defending them are blind to the fact that this game is more and more broken, and players are uninstalling by the thousands. Keep defending them when Bethesda decides to pull the plug and kill this game - it can happen very soon.

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