Keskin (DayZ)

It`s like applying for a job and getting 2 years woth of sallary on your first day at work. You can`t expect any motivation from a pre-payed worker. The gaming industry is out of hand. They can do things, that would normally get others into some serious legal trouble. No thx, no more pre-release, alpha or pre-orders for me. Never ever ever again! From now on it`s: Finish the freaking game, I test it and then I decide if it`s worth the money I had to work hard for. You know, just like every other product on the market. This is common sense, this is how buying and selling worked since the stone age.

I don`t care what they did with the engine, it looks almost the same, has almost the same awkward controls, lag and has even less features atm. I could either walk 10km to the next city or turn the other way, travel all around the world and reach the same city. What counts is the outcome. When I start Dayz standalone, it says Bohemia interactive and you just said that all the mod induced sales from Arma went to Bohemia Interactive. Are you even reading the stuff you`re writing? Btw, I like how you pass my valid points with a short "sure they had that" and keep on expanding on how hard it was to modify the things that were already there. And you don`t have to defend Dean or Bohemia, I know how business works but again, it says "created by Dean Hall" and then it also says "Bohemia Interactive". If you can proudly take credit and earn millions, you will sure as hell take some valid criticism along with it. Especially if you charge more than promised and more than what its actually worth. I´m seeing this whole thing from a gamers perspective and gamers have to start demanding better products for their money.

Well I read your whole post and it was a waste of time cause you`re not getting any of it fan boy. I´m on noones side and I already stated that warz is the worst game in history but your fanboyism is clouding your brain so I forgive you [ :)] What counts for me is the product that people pay money for and this product will take another 2 years to reach the state they envisioned.

Granted I don`t know much about developing games but I´ve seen this before in warz. So excuse me for being cautious when I hear phrases like: "It is high on our to do list", "We are looking into it" or when I hear promises of super awesome features and none of them are in-game yet. or when I watch the devs experiencing major issues during live streams and they act mildly surprised and say "we gotta look into that" right before they charge $30. I have no doubt that Rocket and his team have good intentions and are working hard but it`s not enough. Something is going wrong here, maybe they don`t have enough devs or maybe it`s the wrong engine, I don`t know. The thing that everyone knows though is money, Bohemia is not here because some of us might have cancer and they want to entertain us for free. The price difference between Dayz-alpha and Bf4 is only 10 euros, I have a bf4 code on my table right now that came with the graphics card I bought for Dayz but I´m not opening it because I don`t like it, I want Dayz. I would love to be wrong about the next 2 years. Maybe they will fix the basics within the next 3 month and just slap the promised features on there and in that case I´d send them 50 euros more and post a topic on how wrong I was. But you and I know that`s not going to happen, here is what will happen: They will patch once or twice a week for the next 1-2 month or so, then the sales will start to decrease and so will the patches and this whole thing will drag for the next 2 years. In those 2 years we will see die hard fanboys, haters, "alpha" squeakers etc... So again, Rocket, pls prove me wrong and make me look like an ass so everyone can enjoy the game they`ve been waiting for so long.

So I´ve been waiting for the Standalone for over a year now and this is my honest opinion. This does not look like 12 month of professional development because: - They already had a game engine - They already had a map - They already had experience with the mod - They must have earned good money from the mod induced Arma sales so that can`t be an excuse All of those 4 points should have made it easier for them to build a better product. My criticism: - Rocket said that they would charge 13 bucks or so for the game, yet they`re charging 24 Euro for an alpha - At this stage the game isn`t really that much better than the mod - The controls, OMG the controls. Precision is non existent and it feels like there is a permanent 2 sec lag. - Negative mouse acceleration, seriousely Rocket? 3 days ago you wrote that you would look into this issue. Didn`t you notice this the first time you played Arma? Why wasn`t this first on your "to fix list"? - I can`t see any explicit mechanic, that would prevent this from becoming a deathmatch - There are tons of issues that don`t need a public alpha to be noticed by the devs - Fixing this game will take at least another year and I´m not even talking about implementing some awesome features, only fixing it as it is now. - Fixing + implementing the promised features will take 2 years People need to stop bringing the alpha excuse to EVERYTHING. The alpha excuse works with a small dev team with limited funding building a totally new engine, maps and game mechanics. Notice that I didn`t even mention the typical alpha issues in my criticism. All those alpha excuse people were the reason why Warz devs earned millions with the worst game in recorded history. So Rocket, I´m guessing that the mod already brought millions and now the alpha alone already made 4-6 million bucks. Are you going use that money to fix this game like yesterday? Because if development continues at the same pace, this whole thing will either flop or only be just another average game.