The Quake series dominance was always do to its multiplayer aspect & is what kept the series alive for all these years.
That said, I did enjoy the SP side just as well, with Q1 being my favorite.

I think expectations were high that Raven would spend equal time on MP & follow the standards set by Q3 mods like OSP & CPMA.

I agree the SP part of Q4 is enjoyable & I also hope there will be a mission pack.

- My Quake 4 Needs & Wishes -

* More diverse models to choose from in MP, female model plz.
* Add the ability for map makers to include water, lava, swimming.
* Double elimination, Round robin in tourney mode.
* Of course fix all the bugs.

Would also be great if someone from raven actually started communicating with the community.

Quote (kOma @ Feb. 10 2006, 9:38 am)

Would also be great if someone from raven actually started communicating with the community.

Many at Raven do read these forums and are aware of many of the communities concerns.  Not many post (anywhere) because they have chosen to instead spend their time working towards completing the patch so that it can be released soon (rumored March 10th).  The only posts I've seen from Raven employees lately is Rgoer at the Quake3World.com forums, most of which are simply messages ensuring that they are indeed hard at work and have fixed many of the issues the community has brought up already.

The risk they are taking is that they are hoping to release an amazing patch, that will both take care of all those issues and surpass what is merely needed.  But if they fail to deliver an amazing patch OR take much longer to release it, the already low Q4 population could drop to Painkiller levels.  Its very nearly that at the moment and we all hope for amazing things from Raven and id.  Quake 4 has amazing potential, I just hope its properly tapped.

If the community feels that id and Raven have answered their calls within one month from this post then Quake 4 could be saved.  If it takes much longer than that, I fear for the worst.

What everyone needs to do right now is all that they can for the community.  Whatever your talents are, put some heart into Q4.  Make maps, models, textures, mods, tournaments, lans...  The patch is neccessary, but if the community drops the ball on their end, then the patch is for nothing.

Keep the faith, strengthen the community and hopefully the developers and community will be working together and appreciative of eachother in the months to come.

I don't really think there's THAT much that need to be fixed for Quake4 to become great.. I mean they allready have the formulae, Quake3.. Just fix the bugs, make rockets faster, SG spread wider and reduce hitboxes. Add better maps to the mix and Quake4 >>> Quake3