Quake Live subscription models unveiled Year-long open beta for Web-based shooter ends today; game remains free-to-play, but id Software adds two paid subscription levels--premium and pro.

id Software's PC game Quake Live has changed business models. The arena FPS this week dropped its free-to-play model in favor of a one-time payment scheme.

As a concept, Quake Live is fairly simple to describe: Quake III Arena, for free, in a web browser. As a phenomenon, it goes much deeper. Quake Live is a ...

I'm not knocking Quake Live--the free model is great if you don't have access to Steam. I just don't think the paid model provides any sort of value considering how cheap you can get the original ...

In-game advertising has failed to bring in enough revenue to support id's free-to-play Quake Live, John Carmack has admitted, meaning the company will need to switch to a subscription model in the ...

Quake might be one of the fastest shooters ever made - but the changes id have wrought ahead of Quake Live’s Steam release are happening all-too-quickly for players who’ve been hopping about ...

First person shooter Quake Live will be heading to Steam in the not-too-distant future, and with that potenially massive new audience comes the need to take this hardcore, purist's shooter mainstream.

As we work to bring Quake-style deathmatch excitement to the masses, IGA has fully supported our vision." The duo has even coined a new term for the Quake Live-style product: it's a "freemium" game.