Easy Headline Alert: Quake Live public beta is live!

by Christopher Grant { Feb 24th 2009 at 7:30PM }

Alright, enough. Stop. You can lay off the F5 button and cease your (frankly) childish refreshing of www.quakelive.com. The public beta of Quake Live – promised to be available today – is finally live and, unless you live somewhere not in the vicinity of Dallas-based id's timezone, it's still today and not tomorrow yet. Our advice to the Windows gamers reading this, in bullet point format for easy skimmability.

Stop reading this post.
Register for a Quake Live account.
Return to this post and share your username in the comments.
RAILGUN THE CRAP OUT OF EVERYONE ON JOYSTIQ!
Make sure you did Step 4 in Quake Live and not in real life. Just a reminder, not really a step.
[Update: Get in line ... yeah, there's a queue folks. Good things come to those who wait, right?]

Tags: id-Software, PC, Quake, Quake-Live

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

iambob98 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:36PM

Gotta love step 5...

MuToiD_MaN @ Feb 24th 2009 10:39PM

Especially since by then it's too late ... You can find me there as MuToiDMaN by the way.

aacman007 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:37PM

BaconDeity

Magetto @ Feb 24th 2009 7:37PM

I got into the private beta, but the thing kept crashing my browser when ever I tried to load a match up. :(

ChaosCentral @ Feb 24th 2009 7:37PM

I would love to follow these steps of yours... but the site is soooooooooooo slow and not loading all too much. Gotta love the flock of people as soon as something opens.

Chris Are @ Feb 24th 2009 7:43PM

Hopefully everyone will be civil enough not to trample someone to death...

...Too soon?

Residentevil72501 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:39PM

My Username is Slatanic, and I am currently 10,000th in the que

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Feb 24th 2009 8:04PM

29,000
F102DeltaDagger.

Brian @ Feb 24th 2009 8:17PM

_________Mr_TEA

30112 in queue

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Feb 24th 2009 7:40PM

Moptimus Slime, unless it has to be 1word, in which case MoptimusSlime

Moptimus Slime (Leader of the Taylor Swift Defense Force, Gobot in disguise) @ Feb 24th 2009 7:50PM

17,000 n00bz on the wall 17,000 n00bz. Take one down, move up in the que, 16,999 n00bz on the wall

OMGOMG @ Feb 24th 2009 7:41PM

pbhawks45, #12,905

Residentevil72501 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:42PM

Does anyone here play that free FPS, Crossfire? Its pretty fun! If any of you play it add me, same username Slatanic.

aacman007 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:44PM

Bleh... After playing good games, I couldn't barely even play that crap... Subagames makes really shitty games...

aacman007 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:43PM

horse shit... I was just about to finalize my registration like 20 minutes ago and it gives me an error and when I try to come back in, I'm thrown in the queue. Mazel tov motherfuckers...

Shit.

aacman007 @ Feb 24th 2009 7:52PM

I'm also an idiot. I was suposed to go to queu after registration, awesome. I just got a bunh of errors, that's why I thought I wasn't supposed to go to queue... Anyway...

One more time: BaconDiety, # 11889

Mayor @ Feb 24th 2009 7:44PM

MayorMcCheese

patiently waiting in a line that wraps across the US. 11980 in line!

Can't wait to play at 4am!

R @ Feb 24th 2009 7:44PM

EsotericLord

15,710, seriously? So much for this....

Scottastic @ Feb 24th 2009 7:44PM

Scottastik, and I'm #14,155

iamchampuk @ Feb 24th 2009 7:46PM

12,000th in the queue, username is ThisIsTheChris

h2obdawg @ Feb 24th 2009 7:48PM

H2Obdawg tis my username, 17521'th in line. This might be awhile.

david.j.tate @ Feb 24th 2009 7:51PM

davidjtate - 19719 in queue.

JangoGod @ Feb 24th 2009 7:53PM

lol, I was in 12830 in line. I kinda exit my internet browser (Ugh...So stupid) and ended up being 18636 in line! Weeeeeee!

MowDownJoe @ Feb 24th 2009 7:58PM

24456 people in the Queue... oh god... MowDownJoe is going to be waiting for a while...

Kenny @ Feb 24th 2009 8:00PM

#26885 in line. misclet will wait. and wait some more.

ziggy82323 @ Feb 24th 2009 8:05PM

ziggy82323, at position 27,506 at 8:04 EST

offday @ Feb 24th 2009 8:05PM

I was in the closed beta. Don't know if I have the patience to wait through this tonight, though. Anyway add offday. It's a lot of fun. I can wait until it quiets down a little, though. I just got in the battlefield heroes beta last night. :)

Poisoned Al @ Feb 24th 2009 8:05PM

"Position in queue: 24322"

I know it's in beta, and everyone wants on at the same time but... wow.

Anybody get on to play?

Poisoned Al @ Feb 24th 2009 8:12PM

Oh yeah "PoisonedAl"

Humm, this number dosn't seem to be going down.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Feb 24th 2009 8:23PM

It does,only 26,000 to go.
Probably this counter will hit 14,000 by midnight,hopefully.

It would be funny my turn comes at 4:00 AM.
Another thing when your turn comes you get to play 1 match or something and then back to the line or what?

Poisoned Al @ Feb 24th 2009 8:44PM

I've DL the plug in, but now I'm in the fucking queue again :p

DangerMouse @ Feb 24th 2009 8:50PM

Ha! Sounds worse than fileplanet.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Feb 24th 2009 8:09PM

I wonder what will happen sooner Valve releasing another awesome Meet The Spy/Pyro/Medic Video or my turn in Quake Live.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Feb 24th 2009 8:44PM

Wow I'm in wish me luck.

Dr Jeckyl and Mr ESC. @ Feb 24th 2009 8:47PM

F*cking google piece of sh*t,it crashed my browser NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Einhanderkiller @ Feb 24th 2009 8:56PM

Is Google Chrome even compatible with Quake Live?

Deck @ Feb 24th 2009 8:09PM

Name: Oios. In line # 32,121! I'll be back in a few days.

As great as this is... just maybe this waiting is a little crazy!

donHefe @ Feb 24th 2009 8:10PM

Position in queue: 31759

R @ Feb 24th 2009 8:10PM

My que number isnt going down :/

Anticrawl @ Feb 24th 2009 8:11PM

Anticrawl

#33154....?

Screw that I'm going to play Crysis Warhead or Dawn of War II.

R @ Feb 24th 2009 8:14PM

I need a co op partner. Add EsotericLord to your friends list if you ever wanna co op

Nadril @ Feb 24th 2009 8:11PM

I got into the closed beta a while ago.

Damn though, looks like they need new servers haha. Jesus, 33,000 people in line.

Ataraxy @ Feb 24th 2009 8:11PM

I have been in queue for about 20 minutes and I have not seen the page automatically update my position yet.

Anticrawl @ Feb 24th 2009 8:16PM

Sounds like yours is broken. My position has went down over 2000 in a few minutes.

PhoenixGeek @ Feb 24th 2009 8:19PM

28,453 rd in queue, PhoenixGeek is the username. I originally was 4000 something in line, then I closed the browser.

Ataraxy @ Feb 24th 2009 8:20PM

Yeah it literally just started moving down for me. It's a shame too, I was already creating an account but kept getting errors so I refreshed the page a bit and ended up in queue.

One of the times it said my email/username was taken even though I had not finished the process. So I have no idea what the deal is.

AoE @ Feb 24th 2009 8:38PM

Yay, #14988 in queue after like an hour-hour and a half of waiting, I'm sure I'll be playing this early next week!

Also, i'd give my quake live tag, but i am embarrassingly terrible at pc fps, haven't played one really in the past 10 years. So if you ever run across someone incredibly easy to kill, it's probably me.