Treehead

WoW Style > GW Style. Studio Servers to keep hackers away (Sub makes sense to pay for a good server infrastructure) F2P/Pay2Win would ruin it, I wouldn´t pay. Kickstarter? Why not. Community or studio developed? I would definitely pay people for their work. If they develop a good game, they should earn a lot of money with it. But studios have accountants and accountants tend to turn every good project into casual gamers disneyland where you are diapered, spoon fed with selected content and GMs take care that nobody hurts you. Also, the community knows your game better than you do. IF you keep your accountants calculating their numbers instead of fumbling with management decisions and keep an open ear for your community, I´d say studio developed.

I think a big part of what makes DayZ so popular is the tough as nails simulator by BI. Surviving is very hard and frustrating but doable if you use your brain because of the realistic and comprehensible rules. A DayZ mod based on ARMA2 works, a DayZ mod based on something less realistic like L4D IMO wouldn´t work. (Sadly, BI simply failed to make a fun game out of their simulator, thats what Rocket did and he deserves great kudos for this) A company that tries to clone DayZ can try make a zombie-apocalypse-survival-horror-MMORPG of any kind, But they will lack the whole combat simulator part that is developed since 1999. And on the other hand it takes many thousands man hours to create a plausible and naturally grown looking map of 200 square kilometers. Of cource you can computer generate a map in much shorter time, but I doubt it would be a GOOD map. It would be a very, very respectable achievement if they should manage to make something like a persistent-world-L4D. But I would still prefer DayZ in the current state than this. /edit: I just wanted to add: I think the screens for WarZ are fake. It just looks like ARMA2 with additional god-rays, blur, bells & whistles and cheap eye-candy. And is it a DeLorean in one of the screens? /2nd edit: typos