AnarchyBrownies

I've given up on BF4. It was my first Battlefield game and it's been such a disappointment. I'll go back to it in a few months to see if they've patched it up enough. Or I guess I could go spend the next few months-year playing it, being disappointed, and spamming their forums with how incompetent they are. By the way, you seem to have quite a level head and logical insight about the game/release despite being so new. I hope you stick around, so far I've enjoyed every one of your 3 posts and it's always nice to have new forum members who make a solid contribution from the start!

I think they have quite the team on it now. And by my math, based on the last numbers I heard, they made about 4.5 million dollars in 24 hours. (It was 150,000 people x $30USD)... from a game the developers themselves told everyone not to buy. I think they'll get the resources they need to make sure it continues along this path of success. Hopefully there's nothing to worry about!

I'm getting a kick out of seeing certain recognizable names of people who are complaining/supporting complainers. I won't make specific mention of anyone but it applies to many threads. They complained because the game wasn't out when they wanted it out (and refused to listen to why that was), and they're complaining now when the game is out (because they refused to listen to warnings given about bugs/content). I think I see a trend. Tell you what, people who haven't stopped crying since last December- hell, I'll even settle with people who have been crying since this November- I'm going to let you in on a little secret. This game will never ever be good. Like ever. Not even close. They'll just suck money out of you until you've got nothing left (real life looting ensues) and they'll be laughing. Just abandon the game now. Leave and never come back because all the developers will ever do is let you down. It will be so liberating to be free of this horrible, disappointing game after months and months of stressing over how little it meets your expectations. Just go now and thank me later. In fact, I don't need thanks. Just go.

What do you mean it went nowhere? I think it showed quite effectively that there are very weak reasons for allowing essentially unlimited controls for server owners. And I think we all enjoy KOS quite a bit. You may have difficulty with this idea but what the people against private hives are after are organic situations where anything could happen. That includes KOS. What we DON'T want is a predictable scenario where all you're ever going to experience is KOS. When I go on COD or Battlefield I don't expect to make friends with the other team. I know what's going to happen. When I go on DayZ, I don't know what's going to happen. THAT IS THE POINT. That is the whole experience.

I think that's the issue with modding in the case of the DayZ mod. That 90% falsely equates enhancing the experience and completely changing the experience. It's a slap in the face to the 10% with good ideas, and to the original developer(s) of DayZ.

No, Dean had an original idea and created something new out of ARMA. What people are asking for when they want to kill everything after starting with every weapon and vehicle is closer to ARMA. Go play and mod that, they want you to. You can have everything you have in these ridiculous servers and it is encouraged because it doesn't ruin the experience, it's the experience they want you to have. But don't use the DayZ name to create COD just because so many people reflexively go for it without thinking.

I don't think you're factoring in why people go along the path of least resistance. You're saying if it's what they want then let them have it and I have a couple arguments against that. 1. In the case of DayZ people go for the path of least resistance because they don't understand their own excitement over certain features in regular DayZ. If you see a rare item in regular DayZ (helicopters, high powered weapons, vehicles) you think "Wow, I would love to get my hands on that." Then they see a server offering it. They immediately are enticed because they associate these features with their excited feels. They get on these servers, start playing, and get sucked in based on this cheap feeling of having something they didn't actually work for. It's exciting enough to try it out, but they completely lose their respect for the feature, thus with the core idea of DayZ, which is survival (and YES you can have a central theme in a sandbox game). Everything comes easy and then they start treating the game how the last decade of our generation only knows how to treat one: As a full on FPS deathmatch. Keep in mind that most of the people playing DayZ had never tried ARMA so when they hopped on these loaded up servers they could get hours and hours of fun just playing a new game that was essentially ARMA with insignificant zombie things running around... but it wasn't DayZ. Yet, people were still advertising their servers with the DayZ name. Which leads me to my next point- 2. Modding multiplayer games should not be allowed except in cases where they're designed for it/need it (ARMA for ex.). DayZ is its own experience and is a very specific one. If people don't like it they should play something else and stop standing on the shoulders of giants to make it something it's not. Seriously, if only 20,000 people are interested in the DayZ experience then those are the numbers it should have. I don't think that's the case. I think hundreds of thousands of people are interested but a lot get hijacked by people (servers) offering cheap thrills using the DayZ name. When they get bored after a month they move on to the next game, associating DayZ as that game where they flew around in a helicopter the majority of the time and had sniper wars.

By the way, I love the logic of saying "People who don't like it, don't have to play it" coming from people who are already looking for the right to change a game that just came out and hasn't even left alpha yet.

Go play a different game if you don't like the one given to you. Better yet, make your own. EDIT: Point being, don't call it DayZ.

You have to go with what the majority were like though. I believe good private hives were the special cases.

I personally find that private hives completely fractured the community and gave newcomers the wrong idea of DayZ. Limited control for server owners is my vote. Let them have control within reason but basically keep the whole thing nice and tight. As it has been stated countless times in only two pages, custom load outs are a joke.

If you did what Steak and Potatoes said then you tried flushing :)

This is obviously a troll. And if it's not, we should all feel really bad for the OP who clearly struggled to keep up with information for the last year. His complaints are literally everything we were warned about for the Alpha, most of which we've known since last winter (map, engine).

I think the amount of loot is fine as far as food and water go... The amount you have to eat and drink is not normal. Or at least the symptoms are too extreme.

My scam's at 30% now. Oh 31% now.

Of course, the word "standalone" can die now right? We can just call it DayZ now? Please.

Let's all enjoy this moment while we wait.

I wonder how many people will be calling in dead to work tomorrow? "Yeah, I won't be able to make it in ever again. Dead, sorry. Not my fault."

They wanted to make sure their DayZ servers were stable... but forgot about the ones handling BI's store :) That's okay I see it as a good sign for Rocket and co. Congrats!

Saaaame

Just like that? No parade? No balloons?

Reddit:

If you're referring to those change logs people keep mentioning, those aren't necessarily changes to the game.

My god I haven't shut this song off.