Haudrauf, I can't agree with alot of things you said there except that the client enforcing sucks
Also you didn't seem to understand at all what I had in mind with the steam-wannabe. I did not think of it as a chat tool, nor a replacement of irc, no way, but you don't seem to understand this: I doubt there is a single new player these days that starts the game without anyone already playing it telling him, and he will most likely give up pretty soon because he can't even figure out how to set all controls good, you download rallus aq2 install, sure, there you have everything needed to play, but nothing on how to get started, how to set everything up, and where to find servers, All-Seeing Eye and such are good, but they are still not the easiest to use, even if I think anyone could figure it out.
What I'm trying to say is: did you try starting the game out from scratch, without your cfg, without your serverlist, not knowing any servers, players or maps. It's not as easy as you might think.
no its here we are failing! propaganda! tie them to a chair. MAKE them beg for action quake2 playing!
True and false, we don't want to force anyone
, but we do want to make the game look nice and easy, people like simple stuff, spending an hour setting up shortcuts and configs the old-fashioned way is to long for someone that doesn't want to play aq2, but a new game, any game. He will most likely go to some other free game where he will have no problems finding games or setting his controls.
All-Time best receipt: Do something (even when it's a small contribution) for others to keep things alive.
I agree on this, but if everyone would instead work together with their small contributions we would have a great new game, just look at all the clients and tga textures, maps and tng, looking back in time aq2 has really evolved. Now it's just time for the non-finish scene to evolve too
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what to do about that 1