monkie

i'm sorry but that is not correct, unless steams own support site is wrong. https://support.stea...php?p_faqid=370

it is not the main reason i dont use steam, the main reason i stated in a earlier post, i do not see why i should give up my statutory rights and using steam requires me to do so. you may think it is ludicrous but companies much larger than valve have gone bankrupt, or been taken over by other companies, i dont only have to trust valve i have to trust every possible new owner of valve. i also have to trust that valves service will always be available. if rocket was starting completely from scratch i might understand his arguments a little more but BIS seems to already have everything in place that is required to release the game in a way that respects my consumer rights, and seems to have survived quite well as a company releasing games without requiring steam. or they could just hire some capacity in the cloud the way other companies do if they expect a short burst of high traffic? BIS has a store, it already develops games, unless you have some specific knowledge of BIS development that i dont your argument seems to hold little weight.

from what i have read people are not "getting their knickers in a twist about using VAC", the issue is steam itself from what i read and my personal POV, i dont buy games that require steam as i do not wish to be locked into a service that could be gone tomorrow and i do not apreciate giving up my basic consumer rights. i would like to correct one misconception you seem to have, people do not lose their steam account if caught using cheats, only the use of the games using the engine they cheated in, nothing changes compared to now, i read that people who get banned by the current anti-cheat used by dayz can just buy another CD key, people that cheat in steam can make a new account and repurchase the game, also because VAC does not ban instantly a cheater can keep griefing for "days or weeks", to quote online sources, before VAC actually kicks in, this to me seems like a considerable downgrade compared to the current situation where if someone is caught by the dayz anti-cheat they are instantly banned.

i have been waiting patiently and with anticipation for the standalone, updated my PC recently specifically to be able to play dayz with higher FPS, i know this is my first post on this forum so i hope you can view this in perspective, i registered now specifically because of the steam issue. you have been very open during the development process, i do not understand why you could not have told us earlier that steam was "make or break" for your development process, i also find your reasoning strange, BIS has a store where it sells its games, BIS has a development pipeline it has used for all its other games, you already use a external anti-cheat, there already is a "community" server browser called dayz commander which many people use as a server browser and to update the mod. i dont understand how you can just wave away consumer rights in this way, i live in the EU, when i buy a game i expect to be able to use it as i wish, i do not expect to be locked into a "black box" service that accesses my property in a opaque way. i also dont apreciate that a "service" like steam takes away my legal right to trade or sell a license i have purchased. of course i do not know what the proportions are like for other BIS products regarding sales on steam vs retail or the BIS store but the people that bought directly or in retail did so for a reason, and one of those reasons could be steam, and you are potentially losing these customers. i am extremely disappointed and the way things stand i am a customer you are losing because of this.