electroban

BURN EVERY VILLAGE

"Having worked on one modification of a game for five years, and releasing precisely zero games, Dean Hall has decided that all of this success is too much for him, and he wants to start his own game studio with none of his former Bohemia Interactive resources" He's got our money as a resource. Yeah and i'm telling you the Irrational games situation isn't comparable.

Irrational Games shut down after Bioshock Infinite was actually released as a full and polished product. NOT THE SAME. No one would get mad at rocket if he stepped down after DayZ has as much finish as infinite did. Because that would be him, fulfilling his promise and giving us the actual full game. Not some shade of a game forever stuck in alpha/beta

Yeah it happens all the time. Definitely. Creative/design lead announcing he's stepping down before the beta has even started. Yeah happens alllll the time.

You don't move up in life if you renege on a tonne of your promises and haven't got the staying power to stick to things. A lot of people hate their jobs, they still have to do them. Due to the success of the alpha, aka the money we've given him, he's clearly decided to say fuck it, and walk out. With the money we gave him. To go make a different game, with the money we gave him. A load of broken promises, he's like the New Zealand Peter Molyneux, lots of promises, that's it. I'll piss my pants laughing if he resurfaces asking for that early access money for his new project. Tarnished reputation.

Banished is alright, I mean it's made by one guy, and it's polished, he's not asking you to pay money to beta test his game then leave through the process either, so that puts him a head above other titles out there. Banished is what Godus should of been. Very peaceful game.

LETS BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN

Transparent, yeah sure man. Sure yeah. Deffo! He says this, you know, now. After everyone bought the game he's now abandoning. The timing as to when he chooses to be transparent is fantastic. For his wallet that is.

Well I wouldn't go that far, if he came out with something that clearly looked polished, that didn't look like a 3 year wait till the game is done sure. Don't be coming around here with your early access, try the beta now bullshit Dean. Polished release or GTFO. Go look at banished, that's one guy mate. He ain't asking me for fuking money to alpha test his shit.

Just be really cautious when his studio comes out with another early access asking for money. Only people that'll be handing him cash are the apologists in this thread tbh.

Aren't Bohemia full steaming with ARMA III at this point? I highly doubt DayZ (something that isn't their baby) is going to be featuring on the priority list, it was a decent cash bump. But then again guys DayZ is ultimately a flawed concept. Why the fuk would Bohemia put work into something its Lead Dev describes publically as a fukin flawed concept.

Yeah sure, I'm not surprised at all about the timing as to when he does it, after the game goes on sale. AFTER the game goes on sale lets' announce the game as a "flawed concept" and then furthermore announce that you're leaving. Do it after though. For the sake of transparency. I'm sure he'll use our early access money to wipe the tears of remorse from his eyes no doubt. I'd give him kudos for transparency if he announced this before the game came out. "I feel like DayZ is a fundamentally flawed concept," he went on, "and I've always recognised that. It's not the perfect game; it's not the multiplayer experience, and it never can be, [with] the absolute spark that I want in it." Transparency? GET REAL SON. SAY THIS BEFORE YOU RELEASE THE GAME???? A lot of people including myself were sold on Deans creative vision for the game. Now he's removed himself from the game... But we get it, he's an entrepreneur a real business man.

Nice timing though, his announcement, he couldn't announce this of course, before they released the game to early access, no of course not, why would they? Transparency isn't going to help boost sales. GET REAL. He must of known that he was leaving when they were charging for the standalone. Best bring it up later though.

He just flaked out of his own game. That's the end of this story. Works on game until alpha, gets home sick, flakes out of development at Alpha stage, he's flaking out during the alpha stage, and this is OK to people? jesus. The professionalism of this is zero to none. Again more comparisons; it's like Ken Levine flaking out of BioShock infinite at alpha stage cos he wants to work on other projects. It's ok because Ken is the ideas man, he can leave his drones to do it. No Ken Levine leaves when Bioshock Infinite IS FINISHED. Whoever thinks this is normal practice for development, then get real. This is just another message to people to be cautious on buying early access. They give no fucks they have the lion share of the money now.

This game will not forever be in development limbo. In a years time you'll come back to the game and be wowed with the tonne of implemented mechanics and other interesting ideas and polish inside the game. ahahahahahahha