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Quake Live Open Beta Begins Feb. 24th
The Quake Live team has announced that the beta will open to the public on Tuesday, February 24th. On Monday, they will take the servers down, wipe all stats and prune inactive accounts, then re-open on the public site. Personal settings and current account info will be maintained for active accounts. They also said, "We're going to post some additional information in the Developer Notes about the opening of the game, what it means to leave the 'beta' tag on the site during this time, and discuss some features and functionality that we're planning for the next couple of months that we know you'll be interested in." GameSetWatch ran a story recently by a columnist who tried out the closed beta, and we discussed John Carmack's thoughts on the game a few months back.
I wonder if it's cross platform?
Right now it's Windows-only. A Mac version is planned/on-the-way.
No love for Linux - hopefully it's just not yet. No luck with WINE yet, either.
When it's eventually 'released' it's supposed to be free isn't it? Paid for by ads?
Yes, it will be free; ad-based. The ads themselves aren't up yet but the locations were they will be are visible. They are well placed throughout and for the most part they don't really get in the way. In the rare cases that they are in the way, they are transparent - I've shot people through them.
The biggest question though is, is it going to cut in to my Desktop Tower Defence time?!!!
It's cut into my go (the board game) and Smash Bros time, and it's still in beta with a relatively low number of people playing. Expect a decrease in productivity when it is officially out :D
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Actually, if you try to log in to the closed beta with an unsupported browser it gives a message that plugins for other browsers and OSs are being worked on.