It feels like the SA came out, killed the mod and now the SA is dead too because of the lack of development. I loved the mod from around April until Sept 2012, but then it started getting massively popular and it all went to koS and all these stupid mods came out which ruined the experience for me. It came to the point where the mod was dead, everyone was playing this other versions of the game which just sucked. So I quit the mod and decided to wait for the SA as it sounded like it was getting back to the roots, my friends did the same and we waited and waited.... The SA finally came out and it was like they stripped everything out and had this empty shell of a game. It has now been over a year and it still feels broken and empty, my friends have all moved on and don't care any more. I come back once every few months, but it never feels like there has been any progress. The loot system is still broken, I really don't get why we all spawn in the same locations if you cannot get the loot sorted? There are still no zombies, no vehicles, and all the promises of bases are stuff are another life time away. Like what do I play now? Both versions are shit and they feel dead too.. I mean I remember in the height of Dayz I was meeting so many people in the game. There were constant conflicts and meeting people was just so much fun, the game felt so full of life. Playing SA now the map feels empty, I hardly ever meet someone now and if I do it is KoS, like all the players full of personality have now moved on. I find the SA and the Mod so lifeless and depressing to play now.. it just feels like everyone has moved on. I think having so many enterable buildings in the SA not only makes finding loot not fun but it hides a lot of the players. I hate the apartment blocks, they are so big but there is never anything in them, it was so much better where all the loot was just on the stairs and in the top rooms.

There is never any loot, zombies or vehicles, you have to spend ages running deep inland and there is no auto run and by the time you get there the loot is always crap. All the major military places are picked dry so don't bother with them, just run around for hours trying to find a crap gun and then server hop.... oh wait no every frigging server seems to have a different character. The game is a mess, the mod is so much better, it actually has loot, zombies and vehicles.

Mod is better, SA is shit, no vehicles, no loot, no zombies... just dead. Also though the SA has more buildings you can enter, but there is no loot in any of them, so there is no point to going in them.

Most of the time the game doesn't work, I log into a server and more often than not my character is gone and I have to start over. Then I constantly have issues where I'll warp back 50ft which I'm guessing is the server lagging, it isn't my end as I have a beefy PC and my internet is fast, wired and lag free on every other game. Every time I've tried to play this game for some reason I get this issue where I try to loot something and it doesn't let me, then I realize it wont let me interact with anything and I have to go to a different server.... it happens EVERY GAME! There are zombies anywhere, I think I've seen one in the 10 hours I've been trying to play and there is no loot anywhere. I could attempt to run into the middle of the map to get my first bit of loot, but that is so boring and tedious! There are no vehicles anywhere and you cannot auto run... why? At least with the Mod I can use the Steam overlay to glitch the game into auto running. It is so fucking unbearable not being able to auto run, I'm not going to start jamming stuff into my expensive keyboard, ruining it for a game. Why is the sun so bright in the SA? It is constantly blinding and is another element ruining this game, the lighting was so much better in the mod because it let you see things! I dunno what it is about the SA but it just looks cheap, it is like a toy and just doesn't feel as immersive as the mod. Maybe it is the crappy lighting, I also thing the character models and movement looks really cheap and the animations aren't as good... I just don't like the look of the SA. The mod works though, I can always play no problems and there are vehicles and lots of things to do like base building. There are zombies and loot because it spawns in where you're near the location and I just feel like I'm constantly doing something and having fun. Where as the SA feels barren and broken and I don't get how it has been out for a year and has gone nowhere, they've just spent all year adding in features they took out. Ultimately though I don't see what the SA is trying to fix? It has more lag than the mod, the zombies are worse cause there are none, the loot is worse cause there is none, there are still hackers and it runs worse than the mod too. All my friends still play the mod from time to time but none of them bother with the SA. I hate the excuse that it is in Early Access, they've had a year now and it isn't like the SA was first, the mod did exist before it..