So it looks like ID and an advertising company will release a version of quake 3 playable through web browsers for free. Online tournaments, quake and free go together so, so well.

http://kotaku.com/357987/iga-and-id-team-for-free-web+based-quake-live

"freemium" what the f***

Edit: oh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium

does that mean you dont need any files installed locally at all? man bandwidth ++

Maybe they coded it like ".the .product" ok.

but isn't quake 3 like dead? I don't see how this will revive it much.

I remember a tech demo of this in around 2002 using Shockwave. It was pretty decent. Glad to see it wasn't forgotten.

wow I remember the product, f*** that was cool

SaaS is kicking along!

that is so friggin awesome.. go id!

I remember a tech demo of this in around 2002 using Shockwave. It was pretty decent. Glad to see it wasn't forgotten.

was that the one of the cut-down q3a level with the Unreal-looking characters?

there was another browser-based 3D shooter that popped up ~2005/6 that was a CS/Deathmatch clone. It didn't nearly run as well (and lag kinda killed it really), but the idea was awesome

Yeh I can remember playing a browser based shooter a few years back. Definitely a cool idea for someone like me who doesn't want to install any games.

hurry up, iPhone SDK :)

Cool! Now I can play Quake 3 again!!!!

Oh wait ...

^ lololz dice im with ya mang... (i never stopped playing it)

the thought just occured to me - I hope this isn't IE/Vista only

Can't be bothered finding the link, but when Carmack mentioned this ages ago, he inferred it was fairly platform independent. i.e. Win/Mac/Linux etc.

I thought about getting this off steam. Lots and lots of id games :D

looks good.

Fuk yea thats hot

Ive always wondered why ID dont make License card software for like Qld Transport and Vic Roads etc.
Coz then I could say, "yea my Id is made by ID" !!! That would be Massive!

Ive always wondered why ID dont make License card software for like Qld Transport and Vic Roads etc.

You mean you've always wondered about this, because it seems odd or problematic that a foreign software company doesn't issue driver's licences? Or is it because you pronounce the name of the software company incorrectly...

I call them I.D.
As in "eye, Dee" Am I wrong? Could i be wrong???

Also how bout you take some anti depressant pills.
Like a massive Anti Idol Pill. That would be Massive!

Perhaps it is said "eye, do" ??
holy s***

No, id is a word that you pronounce like a normal word.


Here so you don't have to click the link

The term id (inner desire) is a Latinised derivation from Groddeck's das Es,[2] and translates into English as strictly "it". It stands in direct opposition to the super-ego. It is dominated by the pleasure principle.

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as being completely "id-ridden", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and demands immediate satisfaction. This view equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual—often humorously—with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end.

The id is responsible for our basic drives such as food, sex, and aggressive impulses. It is amoral and egocentric, ruled by the pleasure–pain principle; it is without a sense of time, completely illogical, primarily sexual, infantile in its emotional development, and will not take "no" for an answer. It is regarded as the reservoir of the libido or "love energy".

Freud divided the id's drives and instincts into two categories: life (Eros) and death (Thanatos) instincts - the latter not so usually regarded because Freud thought of it later in his lifetime. Life instincts are those that are crucial to pleasurable survival, such as eating and copulation. Death instincts, as stated by Freud, are our unconscious wish to die, as death puts an end to the everyday struggles for happiness and survival. Freud noticed the death instinct in our desire for peace and attempts to escape reality through fiction, media, and substances such as alcohol and drugs. It also indirectly represents itself through aggression.

The bit in bold is probably why they thought it would make a good name.

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lol.
My understanding is id came from John's former group called IFD(Ideas From The Deep)

Here is the Wiki

My understanding is id came from John's former group called IFD(Ideas From The Deep)

so did you actually read the wiki?

....the correct pronunciation of which is a much-argued subject.[citation needed] The current official pronunciation is id as in "did" or "kid", which is in coincidental reference to the id as a psychological concept developed by Sigmund Freud.

Yes i have since i found the wiki.
Then posted to let others know of my n00by ways.

That ok with you whoop?
I just want to make sure. You seem to have sand in your Vag.
Is it sandy?
Have you been to a beach lately coz most of them have been shut due to windyness.
Perhaps some sand flew up your skirt and got lodged in between your manlips?

wow, I am Id !

just like the stupid thing about sql ... i say ess queue ellll when DB guys say sequel because it was a sequel to some other stupid database language bla bla bla who gives a f***

Go punch your DB guys in the nuts.

and Compuserve called Gifs "Jifs" as an in-joke about something local, and that is apparently the correct way to say Gif. But I ask you this... does 'graphical interchange format' get pronounced 'jraphical interchange format' ? no...

so did you actually read the wiki?

You mean the wiki that goes on to say

attributing themselves as "IFD guys". Since the term "id" can be seen as a shortening of IFD to "ID",

That ok with you whoop?
I just want to make sure. You seem to have sand in your Vag.
Is it sandy?
Have you been to a beach lately coz most of them have been shut due to windyness.
Perhaps some sand flew up your skirt and got lodged in between your manlips?

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Hmm, seems IGA has stolen the word freemium and are trying to re-coin it, as the definitions seem to differ significantly...

Wikipedia: "offering basic services for free, while charging a premium for advanced or special features"

IGA: "free-to-play premium games"

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