UglyBob

Ive been playing DayZ for a while now. When I first started the vast majority of the players were playing DayZ as it was intended to be played. As survivors. Sometimes working alone or in small groups just surviving and assisting others. The bandits and sociopaths were the minority and while a problem the survivors could usually take care of them. Now Ive noticed that site after site is grossly over-populated by bandits and sociopathic players that just get-off by killing other players without any real cause. I do not like the "No PvP" servers because there is something about forcing players to not kill eachother by threatening them with a ban is distasteful to me. I realize its a game. Im not actually physically harmed everytime Im looking at loot in the store and get an entire mag emptied into me by some sociopathic 14 year old. But damn its sad that the game has degenerated into Call of Duty free for all and the entire aspect of survival has been put in the back seat at best. DayZ was not designed to be a combat sim yet thats the way the majority of players are treating it now. Seriously if you want to shoot at other players and engage in combat play Arma.

DayZ is a game. I understand this. Im not actually injured when the fourteen year old sociopath shoots me in the back because he gets joy and pleasure from simply killing other players. I am not finacially hurt when I lose gear, weapons, ect, after being killed. In most servers these can be replaced with just a little effort. My point is that DayZ was designed as a survival sim. The zombies represent the disaster. Whether it was a flood, a massive storm, desease, whatever. When I first started playing DayZ the majority of the people were survivors that worked together or atleast not against the other players. Bandits were the minority and while a danger they were a managable threat. Now its been reversed to the extreme. There are few, if any, players that can legitimately call themselves survivors and most servers are populated with players that choose to shoot on sight any other player they see or encounter. Im guessing that I enjoyed the survival and cooperation aspect of the game and prefered not having to worry about being killed by other players as I do now. Others, obviously, the majority of people playing DayZ now are not there to play DayZ. They are there to kill other players because to them that is the goal of the sim. I nknow of two other people that have pretty much quit playing DayZ because to them its not DayZ anymore. Its Call of Duty with zombies. Ive been personally threatened by other players simply because they do not like the fact that I do not see killing other players as fun. If DayZ continues to devolve as it seems it is I will most likely look for another game to waste my time in.