ID Software abandons quakelive support on mac and linux

The other day it became known that ID Software is refusing support for Mac OS X and Linux for their offspring QuakeLive . Recall that QuakeLive is an improved Quake 3 with quite serious changes and a revised engine, as well as a launcher in the form of a browser plug-in for Firefox, Safari and IE (you can unofficially add Google Chrome to this list on Windows, because for some time he supported plugins from Firefox).

The reason for such a serious decision is in the form of recent news about the discontinuation of NPAPI support in Google Chrome and thatFirefox will no longer by default activate plugins on demand . Personally, in my opinion, these are simple excuses, because QuakeLive officially didn’t support the Google Chrome plugin, and the fact that you need to click the “activate plugin” button in Firefox every time is not so scary.

Also, little became known about the fate of QuakeLive, jokingly called " QuakeLive 2.0 ": by the end of this year, IDs promise to make the game StandAlone, with a native Windows-exe launcher, as it was, for example, with Quake 3.

PS In the recent debate between Valve and other game development companies, one can recall a funny story when John Carmack negatively commented on Valve’s efforts to squeeze Linux as a gaming platform and made it clear that ID Software will not have Linux support in the near future.