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By the looks of it, Q3 will probably do better than most games just based on
the reputation of Q1&Q2.  Hell, Q1 is still being played, and it's pobably
the only thing thats keeping out dated computers useful.  :)
Drekken
Chris wrote in message <79p83e$n4u$1...@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
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:Arganoid wrote in message ...
:>In alt.games.quake3, Chris wrote:
:>> I was under the impression that Trinity was what Quake3 was before it
:became
:>> Quake3 - it was a graphics engine which was meant to blow the socks off
:>> everything else around, but id decided to cut back some of the features
:and
:>> turn it into a multiplayer game, more as an experiment in marketing than
:>> anything else.
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:>An 'experiment in marketing' wasn't the reason id chose to make it a
:>multiplayer game. Originally, Quake III was going to be just another game
:>along exactly the same lines as Quake II - with the same pseudo-mission-
:>based storyline. But id couldn't get very enthusiastic about basically
:>doing exactly the same thing again. So they decided to go in a new
:>direction.
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:I wasn't saying that they were doing it just to test the marketing
:potential, sorry, I just meant that it is an approach no other company was
:willing to take before, so they decided that since they were financially
:secure as a company they could afford to try making something they WANTED
to
:make, and see how it sold. They could handle if it was a flop, but were
:interested in just how such a product would be taken to by consumers. The
:range of reactions has already been very interesting, with people saying
:that it will suck with no single player, and others saying who gives a
:flying fook about single, Quake3 multi is going to be awesome.
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:Experiment in marketing just meant they were unsure of how it was going to
:sell, and were doing it to test the water for future multiplayer only
games.
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