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why do you think quake successors like Reflex failed, and what will you do to stop diobotical failing ?

Most arena fps games that have been released are still the same game you've played in the past just in a new engine. So even though we are hopefully doing a successor to Quake. It's not a Quake clone. We're always working towards improving the game play and supporting features.

But its tough. Lets see how it turns out

I should probably give some more info. But when you sit down to do this kind of stuff. Try figure out some clear goals of where you want your product to win, because you cannot do everything. Then know that polish and visual/audio feedback are huge and will take a lot of time. Blizzard games are well designed sure. But more so they are polished and just give you with a very satisfying feeling on a lot of the games interactions. Does that make sense? yeah I'm def a game developer now because I've learnt to talk a lot of shit! nailed it!

Hi Yames! I emailed you days after the 'ass' incident. I know the game's doing pretty well, but how's your relationship with Bruno after the Shanghai Major?

It's great, I was more worried about him going forward at Valve because we we're both in the public spot light at that time. So like a weird couple we decided to lay down relationship rules! Which was basically not talk about work.

But we're still best mates. He's visiting next month for 4 days which will be awesome! I truly miss him a lot. We talk about once a week still.

Edit: Though saying that if he doesn't show up and say hi in this AMA he's dead to me! Just like.. HL3...

so a year from now, after the game has hopefully launched. What would need to happen for you to consider the game a success?

The Dream is... We launched a stable and great product with a player base of more than 17 players. Have the resources to support it over the next 5 years. Then continue to make more multiplayer games. Additionaly start doing content again at The GD Studio for other developers esport titles.

But for the game itself. A healthy player base. Various tournaments per year. I hope we can offer something substantial to the esport eco system.

Success is hard to measure. For msyelf, it's making a difference... and lots n lots of money. I mean difference! That whole sentence was a big typo. damn you keyboard!

What will be the focus game mode? Can we expect Diabotical to go a more team based route like CS:GO and Overwatch, or will you stay focused on duel in the same way as Quake Live has been for the last years?

We are looking at Duel & 1 Team mode to be the main 2 competitive modes. The reason being, Duel will always have a place as a fantastic esport game mode. And we are actively working on improving the duel experience from Quakes in terms of spectator and player experience.

But we are very aware that not a lot of gamers enjoy dueling. It can be very stressful. Well these days, not a lot of gamers enjoy TDM or even CTF. So we are working on a new game mode that hopefully more gamers can enjoy, while we still offer the classic game modes as part of Diabotical. But the goal of the new team mode is that players can contribute to a win by not only getting a high frag count but also with more strategical play. (because lets be honest, TDM was yes very strategical yes, but sometimes strategy got thrown out the window once Fox got a railgun and Toxic got an LG)

Even if Diabotical twitter doesn't hit 20.000 followers, may we still see a GD Studio Reunion?

No! I am holding your twitter follows as ransom ( @playdiabotical btw ) . I probably didn't promote the GD Show reunion well enough. People spam me about bringing back The GD Show all the time. My advise is spend the next 38 hours of your life making 18k twitter accounts and be the hero we need to get everyone back in a room talking shit about esports again. Is either that or you trust me to do marketing properly. I think you know what to do...

https://twitter.com/playdiabotical - thx Decency