that's the reason why
if they lose they can't blame others

as a noob i think quake is fun but i can only bring myself to duel friends. and usually they only want to play for like an hr, so maybe the game isn't that good sadly

on the real though, is it really even a question? there's no cultural connection with young peoples' peers in a game like quake. think about when we (people my age at least) played call of duty in middle and high school because it was so ubiquitously popular it felt like you had to hop on and play just cuz that's what your friends were doing after school if they weren't hanging out IRL

games like fortnite, league of legends, warzone, overwatch, MMOs especially, and even counter-strike have strong connections to popular culture. you get on these games because your friend, your schoolmate, your coworker is playing them. the same reason a lot of you guys still play tf2 today (combined with the fact that the game is just really fun), it's where your friends are

quake had its community when it was relevant in the PC gaming space, when PC gaming was a novel, new, and niche thing to do. it was the circumstances quake multiplayer was born in that formed the people who want to play it, just as modern games are today