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I think the takeaway is there are less people interested in playing a traditional deathmatch first person shooter on Linux than other platforms. Personally, I find them to be boring and overdone. There are much more exciting types of games being made by the indie community than a modified version of a game from 1996.


Quake Live is based off Quake 3 which was released at the end of '99, but I get the point.

Ironically though most of their Linux based competition (Xonotic, Open Arena, etc) all use the quake 1 - 3 engines.




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