The Enhanced edition update was promised to be free for ALL customers that own a digital copy of the original Quake. So when it eventually appears here you should recieve it without being asked to pay money for it.

TLDR: when wishing for a remake to happen, if you haven't already, just do your homework and make an extra step in trying to learn as much as possible on the original game, its legacy, how and who is doing it and the people behind it.

I've been following this thread silently waiting for someone to bring this up, but, apparently, basically, nobody thinks it is a big deal, finally someone felt like sharing his concerns.

I just can't help but wonder how can anybody in his right mind, anybody who actually respects games, their meaning, their legacy and history just treat a game like this (I was just writing butt-raping but didn't in the end).
If this was a random gamers' forum I wouldn't even bothered, even Steam, I mean there are many people over there who know the games' history but most of them can't tell what's what.
Here we are on GOG though: the average user should be way more aware and sensible about this stuff.

If people know the history of id and Quake and the id techs and what they mean in the history of technology and games, then that is an educated choice, debatable, but based on some kind of knowledge at the very minimum.

But people that are blindly OK with this kind of things, like porting a game to some random CLOSED engine that has nothing to share with the legendary original one, an angine that, at some point, was opened to the people to do whatever they liked with it and that literally changed and shaped the way games were made, enjoyed across the world, then, they might want to, at least, stop for a minute or, probably, rethink what they wish for.
I don't want to be pedantic but this, to me, looks like the classic monkey's paw situation.

This is Night Dive Studios and particularly Mr. Stephen Kick at their finest.

Corporations respect one thing and one thing only:

Money

Supposedly, Epic-version can be booted from the EXE itself, according to PC Gaming Wiki - [url=https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Quake_(2021]https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Quake_(2021[/url])

Mind you, I don't have Quake: Enhanced from Epic. I have it over on Steam and from the now-dead Bethesda Launcher/ Store.

Could I see Bethesda bringing it to GOG? One day...probably when Nightdive, Id, Bethesda, and/or whatever will stop updating the game constantly w/ new mods & content; and when they remove any annoying Bethesda-server checks at launch/boot of the game.

We know that GOG's curated and we've seen gamers here take issue w/ patches coming later to them on GOG b/c of that GOG curation process - so, they probably won't bring it here until they all done w/ updating, patching, adding content, and all of that stuff. On Steam and Epic - no curation rules...so if they wanna drop a patch or add junk, nothing stops them.

They probably are going all in on Steam and Epic b/c those sites allow for Bethesda-server checks and mod support via Bethesda-servers; and no curation process on updates. For this to come to GOG - likely, all of those mods, extras, and whatnot would also need to be fully bundled w/ the installer files here.

I wonder if there's any source ports running any of the new Quake Enhanced Mods, new Dimension episode, and/or stuff of that sort.

Quakespasm runs them all fine even the new horde mode from the Enhanced version.

Beautiful! Thanks for the info & update!

I am well aware that was supposedly indicated, but as it has nearly been a year I wouldn't be surprised if they thought better of that idea.

I was just saying on balance I wouldn't mind paying a bit, not a great lot for sure, for it to come here sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the info etc.

Thanks for that.

I should add for the horde mode copy the mg1 folder from Quake\rerelease to WhateverQuakespam is\ then add a run line as a shortcut (as its not avaliable in the menu) as -game mg1 +map horde1

Also you need the latest version of Quakespasm.

Worth noting this: I can boot Quake Enhanced from Steam also without running Steam client in the background.

You need to do the Steamapp_Id.txt trick listed on the PC Gaming Wiki, though.

At boot, once you hit the main menu - you get an error that it can't connect to the servers, if you're offline. And then it goes on its merry way. Annoying pop-up, but...whatever. [shrug]

Thanks for this. Tried this IronWail.

IronWail looks like a really good way to run any of the Quake Enhanced's Campaigns to me.
And I love that it has a Mods section too, in-game - similar to what the real Quake Enhanced does.

I'd guess it's the removal of that Bethesda.net stuff.. even if it's mostly optional... that could be holding up a release here.

I'd definitely agree w/ that.

And also think that all of the extra content in the Mods section needs you to have a Bethesda.Net Account to download it.

Luckily, if you do all of that - you can run these mods in IronWail no problem.

Well the Bethesda Sale appears to be well and truly over at GOG now, and Quake Enhanced never made an appearance, despite the name changes to Quake games. Same with original Doom 3.

We still have two out of four free games to appear in the current sale, but I doubt we will be so lucky that Quake Enhanced or Doom 3 will be one of those.

It is not looking good for Quake Enhanced to appear at GOG, and I don't know what the excuse is with original Doom 3, but at the very least it looks like we are in for a long wait.

A real shame we GOG (DRM-Free loving) customers get treated as second or third class. It amounts to some kind of classism, as we are certainly not being treated equally. Hell, often we don't even get the dregs.

Doom 3 hasn't been consolidated into a single library entry on Steam yet, unlike Doom 1 and 2. I kinda doubt that we'll see that here (if at all....) before that's happened over there.

As for Quake 1: sure, it's disappointing, but at least we got Doom 1 and 2, so Quake remains a possibility.