kuramabingyi

I believe in the principle that everyone should start with just food and water, and any basic supplies necessary for survival such as road flares and a hunting knife. You're washed up on the shore of an unknown land - how is it likely that you just happened to have a sidearm on you when you get up onto your feet? It's more likely that you'd have a hunting knife on you than a pistol if you were any other normal person. I can guarantee that this method will make it that much more tense. Folks will work together in order to scavenge for supplies up until the moment someone discovers a weapon - and then, from there, all hell would break loose. They could either gun down the people they've traveled with or continue on until a better, more opportune moment arises like when the other folks in the party would have a better weapon you could pick off of them. Starting with a weapon - even a weak one - just seems unlikely in the case of this kind of scenario.

The people who are playing now without a problem were probably already on when the servers went down. It's probably only affecting the people logging in while it's down. This is, of course, pure speculation.

Getting the same thing.