I am waiting for stand alone. I don't like army simulator game. They are boring to me. But if your friends like to play that kind of thing, then they should get the arma 2:co anyway. Then they can buy stand alone at some other time and have two games which they like.
Um, someone deleted my post from the rumours thread, so here it is again. This video has in it has gifts sent from BIS to a guy 'Jerry Hopper' In it there is leaflets with "Many Happy DayZ 2013" That makes me think it will be released on Jan 1st.