11-25-2005, 10:25 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 108
Rep Power: 38
|
|
Quake IV Demo Released too Soon
Apparently there are some problems with it, and it was accidently left in their ftp directory and was not supposed to be made availble yet!
Quote:
Fans of the PC series will no doubt already have picked up Raven's take on all things Quake, however for those still to be tempted publisher Activision and developers id and Raven have been plotting a demo of the game, hoping to lure a few more gamers back to the Quake cause. The demo has been available from several major downloads sites for about 48-hours now, however it emerges that the demo wasn't actually ready for release, and was merely placed in id Software's FTP directory by accident. Activision are requesting that eager gamers hold fire for an official demo launch next week, a press release from the publisher revealing that the game was awaiting testing and currently has a malfunctioning multiplayer component.
By early next week, id's testers will apparently have finished testing and tweaking the demo, and it will be released online in its perfect from - complete with functioning multiplayer mode. "This version is not tested and not final. Folks should wait for the final version that we're expecting early next week," an id spokesperson requested.
The demo includes one single-player mission and two multiplayer maps, and is actually still available online despite Activision's mail-out notifying online sites of the demo's unfinished nature. Despite this, those hoping for some multiplayer trialling are most certainly advised to save their bandwidth for next week.
|
http://www.ferrago.com/story/6916
|
