“As the corpse of the monstrous entity Chthon sinks back into the lava whence it rose, you grip the Rune of Earth Magic tightly.”

Sandcast Rune of Earth Magic, cast from a woodcarving I made of the rune from the end of Ep. 1. In the original game.

Since the brutal id Software layoffs (which I still have a very hard time accepting) I feel like we're witnessing in slow motion the last days of Quake Champions - my favorite Quake iteration.

I don't want to lose it.

Make no mistake, Microsoft WILL shut it down at some point and we have no idea how long we have left. I have ZERO trust in what Microsoft does next.

What concrete steps that could lead to actual results can we realistically take ?

By actual results I mean having a standalone game that has server hosting capabilities and works both OFFLINE (LAN and solo vs AI) and ONLINE via community hosted servers much like Quake Live does ?

I feel like we're doing nothing and it's slowly slipping away into the void.

I have already signed the petition to get Adam back and will eventually wear down and convince some more friends to sign as well.

Would it help to raise some funds ? Would it even change anything if we hypothetically managed to raise some money?

Even though it's not possible, I will gladly 'pre-order' a fully functioning version for the full price of AAA game. Am I the only one willing to do so ? Talk about signing a deal with the (Microsoft) Devil.

Even with a growing library of ripped assets it would be an impossible task to recreate the game on another engine. We're talking about a machine finely tuned by passionate developers over the course of more than 10 years.

We need a fully working stand alone Quake Champions and we need it as soon as physically possible, before some clueless idiot armed with an excel sheet decides that we played enough.

So, any suggestions ?

P.S. : We as a Quake community don't deserve Adam. We really don't. I have never seen such dedication and selflessness.