One year ago, on February 24th, 2009, we opened the floodgates and let
fans experience QUAKE LIVE. We'd like to invite you to take a look
back at the first year of the game.
The number of people that registered when the QUAKE LIVE Beta opened
far exceeded our wildest expectations. Over a quarter million players
created accounts right after its launch and that was through word of
mouth only! Since that time, players have spent over 8.9 million hours
in over 60 million ranked matches, earning an impressive 8 million
awards and 810 million frags.
Our title of 'Most Time Played' goes to Pudrick
<http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/Pudrick>
, who has spent nearly 56 days in-game on ranked servers since launch.
Our two Dark Angels, Yakumo
<http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/Yakumo>
and Trajan <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/Trajan>
, have been battling for the title of 'Most Frags', a title currently
held by Yakumo, who has gained over 258,000 kills.
We know not everyone has the time to commit to scaling these heights
of first-person mayhem, so we will be offering a special award to all
players who complete one online match during our two week anniversary
celebration that takes place February 23rd through March 9th.
In our effort to provide continued support for QUAKE LIVE we have made
many changes and additions to the game over the course of the past
year. Since launch we've introduced 'Duel Detective', coupled with
improved matchmaking features that allows players to locate other
players with similar skills. We have also extended our platform
support to include Mac OS X and Linux users.
We've also launched pro Team DeathMatch and Instagib CTF servers, made
extensive hit registration improvements and added Shoutcasting
features and competition settings.
The introduction of these competition features has made QUAKE LIVE a
rapidly growing presence in eSports online, and in LAN tournaments.
For the first time, QuakeCon <http://www.quakecon.org/>
2009 held separate professional and open divisions, and became home
to the first-ever QUAKE LIVE Masters Championship and QUAKE LIVE Open
Tournament.
Following the success of QuakeCon we partnered with the Electronic
Sports League, which hosted tournaments across the globe in Cologne,
Dubai, Edmonton, and Taipei. Twelve competitors qualified to continue
on to the ESL Intel Extreme Masters World Championships
<http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/hannover/>
to be held March 3rd-6th at the CeBIT convention in Hannover,
Germany:
rapha <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/rapha>
chance <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/chance>
av3k <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/srsAv3kRazer>
Cooller <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/Cooller>
stermy <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/stermy>
Jibo <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/RazerJ>
DaHanG <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/DaHanG>
griffin <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/griffin>
Cypher <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/Cypher>
strenx <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/strenx>
fox <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/fox>
dkt <http://www.quakelive.com/#profile/summary/dkt>
<http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season4/hannover/>
Over the past year, we've also added eight new maps to QUAKE LIVE,
including some highly requested community maps, such as our Threewave
CTF maps and Blood Run by ZTN. We understand that you can never have
too many good maps! As we move forward, we hope to bring many new
fighting arenas to QUAKE LIVE, including nostalgic works from the
community as well as new arenas designed specifically for QUAKE LIVE.
We felt it only right to start the QUAKE LIVE New Year off with a new
level. So, without further ado, we would like to invite you to have
fun and celebrate on our first addition of Year Two -- Fallout Bunker.
Jump online, try out the new map and get your "Year One" award this
week!
Thanks for making QUAKE LIVE such a success in its first year!
Additional "Fallout Bunker" Screenshots:
<http://cdn-web.quakelive.com/web2010022306/images/review/yearone/big_shot1_v2010022306.0.jpg>
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<http://cdn-web.quakelive.com/web2010022306/images/review/yearone/big_shot4_v2010022306.0.jpg>
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