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Quake 3 Arena goes Gold

Posted by Hemos on from the get-ready-for-the-carnage dept.

Geek Dash Boy writes "I noted on Stomped that Quake 3 Arena has gone gold. There's no official news item on the Q3A web site, but two of the folks working on the game updated their .plan files with the news. " Mmm...much fragging to be done.

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  1. already? by zempf · · Score: 3

    Doesn't this seem like awfully soon after the demo test release? I assumed that was released in order to get comments from end users and fix the bugs encountered there before having the game go gold. I know the Linux demo test version in particular was (at least for me and my friends) not all that great visually. Lots of texture problems on the walls and whatnot. Anyway, I just hope the bugs are ironed out so I can go on fragging merrily.

    -mike kania

  2. The place to purchase q3....at the Shugashack! by Roofus · · Score: 3

    Because sCary is a cool guy, he is helping to offer q3 for only $33.95. This is not a bad price to pay for such a high quality piece of fraggin software :)
    Here's the link

  3. Quake 3 Arena -- Not! by davidu · · Score: 3

    According to BluesNews for a while, it has not gone gold...the story actually keeps changing.

    http://www.bluesnews.com

    -Davidu

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    # Hack the planet, it's important.
  4. More info: by Booker · · Score: 3
    Found this on Blues News:

    On Quake III Arena's Status [Blue-9:05 PM EST] In addition to the clarification from Activision (next story) on Quake III Arena having not been officially declared gold yet, we received the following response from id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead regarding the game's completeness:

    I think it's just a question of semantics. The "glass master" has not been made yet (one definition of "gold"), but the game is done on our end (another definition of "gold"). It does take some time to make and certify the actual master before beginning production and that's the process we're in right now. It is fair to say that it is highly unlikely that the game will be on store shelves this coming weekend due to the unique logistics of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday week/weekend. As for a specific "shelf date", as indicated in my .plan, I'll let everyone know literally just as soon as I get a confirmed date.

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  5. NOOO!!!! by Signal+11 · · Score: 4

    *cursing* *mumbling*

    Dammit ID, don't do this to us again... when Quake2 was released the network code was so bad it was unplayable on anything less than a T1, and there were all kinds of bugs in the rendering (artifacts being left around), and let's not get into the you-can-shoot-me-but-i-can't-die class of bugs.

    Comeon guys, take a hint from these cool guys and wait until it really is ready to be shipped. We're willing to wait for a bug free product. The question is - are you willing to live with another poor release?


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    1. Re:NOOO!!!! by Digital_Fiend · · Score: 3

      You have a point but I disagree.

      For one thing, q3test has been played like crazy for about the last 4 months. There's easily 10,000 people playing it 5 hours a day. When you play that much, the Linux approach of the "1,000,000 eyes" method shows its strength. That's why Q3 is going to completely obliterate Unreal Tournament (besides being optimized like hell). :)

      Quake 3 is *not* buggy.

      -Warren