The future prospect of the arenas

As it stands right now, the Arena genre is a little quiet. Quake Live is the biggest game going at the minute, and while UT2k4 still has people playing it, competitively it's almost dead (although there is a $2000 tournament coming up soon.) The genre is without a doubt on life support and looking likely to collapse on itself at any moment. Quake Live was meant to be the saviour of the arena genre, but it's awkward payment systems and issues on launch helped to keep people away. Even now it doesn't state that you can pay monthly until you actually get to the payment page, it still advertises everywhere that everything is billed annually.