sniperredfox

I would love to but the rear plugin for my microphone is broken...

As for whether the game is failing or not, sure, currently it has a ton of players and is continually getting more players. BUT, consider almost 10 years ago when the economy was booming and things seemed to be great, but we were ignorant of the fact that what was causing our "success" was actually only superficial and wouldn't last more than 8 years and suddenly it would all start collapsing in on us. There is real growth and progress which lasts and is sustainable, then there is superficial growth. The former is great, the latter is not. Growth for the sake of growth is not necessarily a good thing. You have to be able to sustain that population and prevent it from dropping significantly.

It is also way too hard to actually find other players once you move off the coast, and after recent updates, it has become much more difficult to sneak past the zombies. You don't even start off with enough medical supplies. If you get hit once or twice by a zombie you have to bandage and use painkillers, yet you only get 1 of each. You can die multiple times before even advancing past your opening situation of having nothing. I don't like Call of Duty, so calling me a COD fanboy is just stupid. I've played many games and I find the instant-gratification of CoD and other such games deplorable (though TF2 is pretty fun), however I also think video games whose learning curve and difficulty level is really high as just as bad. You need something in the middle for video games. There are many people out there like me, who do not want to, nor have the time to dedicate 4-5 hours a day playing a game. To be honest, playing for such long periods is also terribly unhealthy for you both for your physical health, but also your social life (whether that is with your friends or with your own family). Perma-death shouldn't be done away with, but there are some elements that ought to be changed to allow for less "hardcore" players to enjoy the game. For example, giving starting players a knife. This way they can defend themselves against zombies. There also should be ambulances randomly generated on the roads, being more common closer to the coast. They would have, obviously medical supplies with only 2-3 zombies around it. They need to do something to cater to the less hardcore crowd, the people who only have 1-2 hours to play each day.

It is stupid when people say its a simulation or that it is "realistic". Zombies aren't realistic, they don't exist and never will exist. A zombie apocalypse is absolutely impossible and in the realm of fantasy. Also, this game can never be realistic because there are no consequences for anything other than perma-death. In reality, people would never behave like the bandits do in this game. You are playing against people with computer characters. Therefore it cannot be an experiment in human interaction because it is completely missing the value people put on humans in general. If you are a good person and not a sick sob, you have a high value for human life and would not go around shooting other human beings like you do in the game. If you would do so in real life, then you are no better than men like Anders Breivik, Seung-Hui Cho, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Ted Kaczynski, Jack Kevorkian, Dennis Rader, Charles Whitman, Timothy McVeigh, Joseph Kony, Osama Bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin or Goebbels. If you would behave in real life like bandits do in game, then you are their equal. Again, this isn't realism nor a simulation, if these people would actually behave like they do in this video game, then they are disgusting human beings who clearly have no value for the human life of other people and are no better than those people mentioned above.

You clearly don't understand it, I'd aim you towards this post: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/25/gabe-newell-i-think-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-for-everyone-in-the-pc-space/

Why do you assume I have no job? Lesson for you douchbag, we are in an economic depression/recession. It is only going to get worse, despite what some idiots say... Microsoft is a greedy company that should fail miserably (along with companies like EA and Sony) with absolutely no opportunity for a bailout. You clearly do not understand the concept that money doesn't grow on trees, and that there are far more important things to use it for such as paying bills and paying off debt (especially loans from school) as well as food and other essentials. Why should I be forced to spend so much money on an OS that simply takes up MORE memory and contains features that I don't care about and changes features that I absolutely love? Windows 8 is going to be completely crap because of the changes within it and especially because of the greedy bastards plan to try to force us through Microsoft Games/Windows Live to play our games and trying to kill off great programs like Steam and great companies like Valve. Same for Apple, both Apple & Microsoft should collapse and go absolutely bankrupt.

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The retards who say this game is "realistic" are just plain stupid. It is a game with zombies, that immediately puts it into fantasy and away from realism. If you honestly believe in your heart that you would be a bandit in a real life post-apocalypse, then you are a terrible and disgusting person who has absolutely no regard for human life. This isn't a realistic simulation because zombies are not real, and never will be real, this situation will absolutely never happen in real life. Most human beings are good people and actually value human life, the only reason retards are allowed to be bandits in this game because there are no consequences for their behavior, they are simply computer avatars playing with other computer avatars. Rocket is an idiot for not trying to make the game fun. That is what all games are supposed to be, fun. If they aren't fun, then they are simply pieces of crap. With the current state of the game, it IS going to die off, and all that will remain are the "hardcore" players and the players specifically dedicated to this type of video game. As it stands right now, Operation Flashpoint, ArmA & ArmA 2 are still a lot more fun than DayZ can currently hope to be. It is mostly the fault of other players, but it is also partially Rocket's fault for being stubborn and continually increasing the difficulty and learning curve for a game which is already impossible for the common gamer to get into. I really wish it wouldn't go stand-alone so that all the finances would go to ArmA 3 and subsequent titles, but at least when it goes stand-alone, the finances will still be going to Bohemia.

Why the hell should we be forced to spend $100-$120 during a crappy economy and give the idiots at Microsoft MORE money just so we can continue to play video games? Microsoft can go bankrupt and collapse for all I care, especially with it trying to force us to give up Steam and Origin just for its own crappy platform for playing games... I'm not going to waste my precious money by giving it to the greedy, fat, grubby fingers of the fat executives in Microsoft's HQ...