News Carmack said no to Quake MMO

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08/06/carmack-said-no-to-quake-mmo/1

According to a recent interview though there were plans to make a Quake MMO game, John Carmack quickly had them cancelled.

 

How the hell would you even translate a game like Quake to MMO format without looking like a complete tard?

 

You checked out Huxley before? That's basically Unreal / Unreal Tournament with MMO'ness thrown in.

 

I did briefly look at it, but not recently. I figured that the lack of talk about it meant it was dying a death or going the way of DNF/Too Human.

 

Well you could make a Quake RPG looking like such classics as Dungeon Master

 

You couldn't, thats why he's saying no.

 

Quake II > *

 

Summin like Planetside, but a Humans V aliens in a kind of territory war for the planet.

I don't see why an MMOFPS would be that bad a thing (it doesn't have to be an MMORPG does it).

 

as long as it has not a single element of MMORPG, IMHO it'd be fun. Planetside was okay.

 

depends if it has a monthly fee..

 

i'm glad he's not going that route.. Quake is a LAN or a solo game.. that is all. Carmack++

 

Bringing to life a dead thread here but I believe its already out in Asia (check the Asia website and there are also gameplay videos on the net from players) and is due for a release in the coming months elsewhere.