I believe this game could prosper like the mod if people are able to preform their own version of the game. With Add-Ons to the mod such as Epoch through the Steam Workshop, this game could prosper even further. It would make the community less angry towards you Bohemia, as well as speed up the Development process as you could hand some of the work over to the community to fix. ArmA III has Workshop Support, Why can't DayZ?