>the year is 2025
>you literally cannot boot up a game of any entry of Quake, Unreal Tournament, Tribes or any other fast paced FPS because there aren't enough players to fill a lobby at any given time

How did it come to this?

FFA and CA are alive in Quake Live tho

OpenArena and Xonotic are active at the right time of day

>>716235929 (OP)
Literally not true, it is obvious that you don’t even try.

>Quake1
QuakeWorld servers are alive and well with people every weekend

>Quake2
Tastyspleen is still running over 15 servers, with DM and Duel having people every night

>Quake3
A51 has people every night with unlagged, meaning anyone across the world can play on a fair ground with anyone else

>Quake4
This one is actually dead because the net code is awful

>Quake Live
It has players but is still kind of dead, but still more alive than Quake 4

>>716237176
>>716237901
>at any given time

>>716237901
What do people play Q3 on these days? There's no way we're still on OSP, right?

>>716236861
At time yes. Not always.

Man, I miss when Quake Live was a browser game.

>>716238090
Nigger drop in once every hour, I guarantee you’ll find others to frag with. The rates climb especially high after work hours and on weekends.

>>716238347
Ioquake or proq3

>>716238562
>Nigger drop in once every hour
Oh yeah, let me just quit my job, abandon my children and reorganize my life around being on my PC so I don't miss the bimonthly Quake deathmatch

>>716238694
Disingenuous or you’re just trying to bump your thread. Dropping in for ten minutes once every hour just to see if people are playing is perfectly reasonable even if you have a family. And if you’re playing quake 3 arena, there’s always at least 2 - 3 real players gibbing it up on A51s FFA. Even more so after American working hours.

>>716238818
I'm a different guy and agree with you otherwise, but
>Dropping in for ten minutes once every hour just to see if people are playing is perfectly reasonable even if you have a family
Not really, no.

>>716238914
If you play any video games in any capacity, you can take 5 seconds to /connect, check the score to see who’s playing, and /quit if there’s nobody on. And if there is someone on, a match lasts less than 10 min, so yes, if you have time for any vidya whatsoever, that other anon is being disingenuous and extremely reductive.

>>716238694
>>716238914
>this game is dead because I'm too busy to play it!!!
cope harder normie

>>716238818
>Dropping in for ten minutes once every hour just to see if people are playing is perfectly reasonable
How much free time do you have?

>>716238090
I guess CoD Warzone is dead because I can only play with bots at 4 AM

>>716239306
The Warzone lobbies are full at 4am, bad example

>>716239360
yeah, full of bots

>>716239034
Checking every hour of the day when I'd rather be present for my wife and kids just doesn't sound fun or in any way reasonable to me. I could only make that work if I was retired and my kids had moved out.

>>716235929 (OP)
I would love for this style of FPS to become popular again.

Play open fortress
>free
>standard arena shooter
>has enough unique and satisfying weapons that most maps can't fit them all
>art style isn't just generic scifi nonsense
>steam release soon(tm)

They're always alive during EU evening which is where all the playerbase is anyway.

>>716240565
Buy an ad for your slop

>>716240565
I looked it up and it looks pretty good but the fact it's been out for years and this is the first I've heard of it probably indicates that it's dead

>>716235929 (OP)
quake champions is probably the most alive, depending where you are.

>>716243384
There's usually one or two DM servers in NA even on off hours
I'm expera big bump on steam release

>start match
>get completely btfo by veterans in second
Gee I wonder why zoomers don't play these