Greetings Friends & Bohemia Interactive,
As many of you have experienced as of late, the game and community as a whole is experiencing an on-going issue that is polluting DayZ Servers to a point where it is no longer enjoyable, and instead has become a cesspool of exploitation and overall cheating.
Before I begin my rant below, I would like to point out that I have no interest with participating in racism, but this issue needs to be addressed - and requires a public statement from Bohemia Interactive on how they will address it.
The game is simply unplayable at this point, and after almost a decade of participation, I'm considering giving up on this community and game as a whole, as I have seen no action or public statements from BI regarding the handling and addressing of this issue - but I am willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt of addressing this issue before I finally call it quits. After all, being an original Arma 2 DayZ player - I can safely confirm that I've literally seen it all.
I'm not going to bother writing about my experiences, as many of you have posted extremely similar instances on this forum where I have personally encountered in-game, but rather address a dilemma that I believe Bohemia Interactive are currently encountering.
MONEY TALKS!
The quote "Money Talks" cannot be more true in this instance, whilst I totally understand the logistics behind wishing to burst into the Chinese Market, as this would help contribute funds that this game has desperately needed and DESERVED, it comes at a high cost which is potentially the final destruction of the DayZ community as a whole.
This is a catch 22 for Bohemia Interactive, the funds that the Chinese community brings into the game has no doubt caused a surge in development from DayZ as a result, whilst the increase of addressing bugs and adding additional features adds to the overall experience of DayZ Players as a whole, is unfortunately destroying the true experience that DayZ players have enjoyed over the years.
Bohemia Interactive has a tough decision to make, it's no doubt that it's a difficult decision given the lack of funding the game has received over the years - but are they really willing to risk losing their current community in order to gain a new one?
In a perfect world for any business, the idea of expanding your market to as many regions as possible is plausible and sounds great on paper - but at what cost?
This isn't a subscription based game, it's single purchase only - which means that the current market of those whom are already a customer are no longer the main priority. The main priority of this business is to seek new customers, expand their market and reach - but we're now in the middle of a period where we're experiencing the downfall of these two worlds clashing together - whilst witnessing the other world growing.
Region Locking
This seems to be the only workable method available to handling this issue, as the company clearly is relying on the Chinese Market in order to stay financially stable, and we cannot fault Bohemia Interactive for attempting to tap into this market, but it needs to be handled with care and caution (which it is not).
It is not racist nor is it discrimination to implement ping-locked based servers, or regions, in order to address this issue. Americans, Europeans, Oceanic Players are all experiencing high volumes of exploitations, and random deaths despite being in incredibly remote regions where one would rarely stumble upon another player.
The Chinese Community is no doubt causing destruction to all of these communities, many players including myself have experienced large-scale raids of groups of 5-10 Chinese Players speed hacking, destroying people's bases, screaming racism and hate-filled comments towards their victims, spawn camping players on the coast - the list honestly goes on and on.
Bohemia Interactive- you have a choice to make.
What are you going to do? How are you going to address this? Are you going to ignore this problem and hope it goes away? Or are you at a point where you no longer care if the community dies as long as you make back on the financial losses you've incurred over the years as a result of the poor release of DayZ Standalone?
Whatever the outcome is, I do understand - money talks and that is more clear than ever.
Yours sincerely,
A long term player that's sick and tired of random deaths after hours, days, weeks, months, years of investment
Cheers
