Seems like an ill conceived move to me in that it puts the game into a weird halfway mode where it has a few of the features of a "modern" shooter, but not enou

Seems like an ill conceived move to me in that it puts the game into a weird halfway mode where it has a few of the features of a "modern" shooter, but not enough. The Call of Duty crowd will still miss the meta-game aspects of real class loadouts and things like killstreaks, and the diehard players who still play Quake Live (because of it being a simple, pure arena FPS) will be pissed because of these attempts to "update" it for the "noobs". Halo/Bungie made a mistake similar to this with Halo Reach that essentially killed Halo as a mainstream competitive console FPS game (though some are hopeful that the forthcoming Master Chief Collection for Xbox One might reignite Halo in that context). I seriously doubt these changes will expand the player-base for Quake Live with new players more than it alienates existing players.