Should Cannibalism be in DayZ?

[Nanoha 37]

Food needs to be scarce enough to warrant this.

[frosti 2165]

It is cool but it could cost serious damage to the reputation of the game.

 

Especially in countries like Germany and Australia, it would be an instant ban.

 

World of Warcraft has cannibalism (kinda) and they got away with it I think. World of Warcraft is not banned in Germany and Austrailia?

 

That mean cannibalism is awwright for goverment.

[UnarmedCiv 54]

if you are cannibal, then sanity meter.

 

cannibals operate on new rules.

Edited January 12, 2014 by UnarmedCiv

[frosti 2165]

Food needs to be scarce enough to warrant this.

 

Food don't need to be even scarce.

 

There is no way that I will look for can of beans in buildings (too much hassle) when I can just hunt down and eat people.

[Hosty 647]

World of Warcraft has cannibalism (kinda) and they got away with it I think. World of Warcraft is not banned in Germany and Austrailia?

 

That mean cannibalism is awwright for goverment.

 

WoW is a cartoony game.

 

I'd see the animations pretty gory tho.

[floj 393]

Voted for other cuz I'm really not bothered either way...

 

Some might consider it the ultimate troll, but then your victim is gonna be respawning on the coast whilst your getting your hijinks from cutting meat off his corpse, so not really trolling at all, just amusing yourselves with no audience.

 

I guess if I really had to pick and choose I'd vote against it since it just offers bandits an easy way to survive without doing any scavenging at all unless they add transfer of sickness + other related illness from eating human meat...and it could lead to a ban in other countries.

 

So...meh

[badman85@gmail.com 14]

Thank God for Steam eh??

please elaborate ? 

 

as i seem to remember something similar in a dev blog in regards to manipulating corpses or even dragging the wounded ? 

haha think Postal 2 was the spawn of all this concern . would love to see those gibs in DayZ , but alas we must be vigilant in our efforts to accommodate the incompetent & mitigating the spread of cranial rectal inversion . 

Edited January 12, 2014 by Mayhem Smash

[Hershel Green 46]

Germany , Australia and Nee Zealand thats not a lot of countries , thats few.

It will be more countries then the ones you mentioned. The countries you name have forbidden violence. Cannibalism will have more impact then just hard violence. I don't agree with the bans but it isn't a important feature to me so I suggest not implenting this.

 

I don't see the point either because there is plenty of food. If they would reduce the food to encourage cannibalism then this game turns in to a PvP-only game after all.  Because then cannibalism would be the only way too play this game and that means everbody does need to kill ppl. This is a zombie-apocalyse that killed most of the humans not a big natural disaster like in the movie "The Road". Most of the ppl died and nature is still providing food. Less ppl but same resources means there is no need for cannibalism.

[weparo 613]

If I'm not mistaken one of the mods of the mod added a cannibalism feature over a year ago, epoch? 2017?

I'd like to see some evidence of it having been banned in any country on earth, post here please.

That's because it's a free mod. How would they ban it? They like to ban games though... Unless nobody told them they would know about it an cencsor/ban it.

 

 

Other.

 

I couldn't care less actually. The aversion towards cannibalism is solely based on culture anyway and when there's no more food, most people would probably resort to cannibalism to survive.

However, seeing as it's not a good practice from a pathological view point, there ought to be consequences. As someone mentioned, kuru and/or CJD.

I'd prefer that other things got priority over this though.

 

I agree. I don't think it really matters, given the amount of food in the SA :P

[hypergolem 39]

Cannibalism is either a tribal/cultural practice or it is an extreme and last resort when suffering from famine. I don't think it is something that would happen often in a situation like post zombie apocalypse in Chernarus... Food is still available in houses, there is still wildlife in the woods. It is simply not realistic. I vote NO!

[quobble 175]

Yes. It is almost confirmed. There is so much talk about it, I would shit bricks if it wouldnt make it into the game at some point.

 

IMO 

you should be able to gut dead bodies and keep the meat in your inventory or store it in doggy bags.

There should be the possibility to get diseases from it...not sure if you easily get "Kuru" or if its just localy in Papua New Guinea or if its worldwide.

 

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)]

 

But please no stuff like "you get crazy and something will let everyone know that you are a cannibal."

 

[Guest]

Cannibalism is either a tribal/cultural practice or it is an extreme and last resort when suffering from famine. I don't think it is something that would happen often in a situation like post zombie apocalypse in Chernarus... Food is still available in houses, there is still wildlife in the woods. It is simply not realistic. I vote NO!

 

 

Well organised argument :)

 

:thumbsup:

[floj 393]

in a world of limited resources and an absence of law and order it would happen.

there is absolutely no evidence that this addition would result in the game being banned anywhere, there are mods out there which contain this feature already and have been around for months if not years, so far none have been banned.

I think you'd have to be quite a disturbed fuckup to think that hunting people for meat is gonna happen when there's tins of beans in a house a few miles inland as well as indigenous fauna to hunt.

 

If it is implemented, I think it should only be an option to eat soylent green once your status is 'starving'

[brzator47@gmail.com 524]

I'm against it. Not only are 99% of the players psycho murderers, but everyone would be a cannibal as well. It's unrealistic and doesn't make sense from gameplay perspective. There is still lots of food in Chernarus and always will be. No one would kill and eat a person if they could find beans everywhere.

[Deventh 9]

When the more important stuff are in the game (such as snow for example) then sure! I voted yes.

[badman85@gmail.com 14]

if im not mistaken the game is more about options & deterrents rather than absolutes . if it did come down to a ban for some countries i would say no , but i do like the option !

 

as far as food is concerned it is readily abundant at the moment . this may be due to early testing or the fact that hunting has not been implemented yet .

 

all & all we dont know what will change later down the road , as it has been stated "its in alpha" . early alpha at that .

canned food may become scarce , animal populations dwindle with over hunting . as well as not managing the predator populations .

 

a justification to cannibalism is mute . think it falls more to the legality of countries gaming laws .

i would hate to see an entire market excluded due to a feature ! as im sure would the sales department .

[antonioajc 500]

Add this and the amount of psychopaths will increase sharply. Kill one clown that has a fire axe and find a whole freaking lot of human meat on his inventory.

[quobble 175]

I think you'd have to be quite a disturbed fuckup to think that hunting people for meat is gonna happen when there's tins of beans in a house a few miles inland as well as indigenous fauna to hunt.

 

If it is implemented, I think it should only be an option to eat soylent green once your status is 'starving'

people kill unarmed freshspawns. anything can happen in DayZ my friend. ANYTHING

[floj 393]

Hah I know, I just think some of the pro-arguments on this forum devolve into 'It's the apocalypse, we'll all be mass-murdering psychos who eat human flesh with no regard to morality or psychological trauma from participating in sub-human behaviours'

 

As an atheist, maybe I'd just be more at risk of psychotic damage from acting like an asshole, cuz I couldn't just ask for forgiveness :D

[hombrecz 832]

I couldnt care less about cannibalism.  Deer hunting, on the other hand, that interests me a lot!

Imagine having to track down deer, stay quiet to not alert it...

If they pull it off, it will be great addition to gameplay and survival.

[Highlander007 249]

Hah I know, I just think some of the pro-arguments on this forum devolve into 'It's the apocalypse, we'll all be mass-murdering psychos who eat human flesh with no regard to morality or psychological trauma from participating in sub-human behaviours'

 

As an atheist, maybe I'd just be more at risk of psychotic damage from acting like an asshole, cuz I couldn't just ask for forgiveness :D

Man, get saved! In Jesus name

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

Add this and the amount of psychopaths will increase sharply. Kill one clown that has a fire axe and find a whole freaking lot of human meat on his inventory.

How would you know it's human meat tho, it would just be "meat" :)

[Diggydug (DayZ) 331]

How would you know it's human meat tho, it would just be "meat" :)

Depends if it's like the mod or not. Now I'm no expert on human flesh, but I can tell pork from beef and beef from venison and venison from lamb. Might be I would notice this meat is foreign to me...as a non-cannibal.

 

If it's like the mod it says what kind of meat it is.

[antonioajc 500]

How would you know it's human meat tho, it would just be "meat" :)

Maybe it would be like in Fallout in which it would be named Strange Meat.

[VincentNZ 5]

in a world of limited resources and an absence of law and order it would happen.

there is absolutely no evidence that this addition would result in the game being banned anywhere, there are mods out there which contain this feature already and have been around for months if not years, so far none have been banned.

 

How can you ban a mod? It is free product available from thousands of sources over the internet. The cannibalism isn't part of the DayZ mod itself but basically a mod for DayZ, right? How do you ban a Mod's modification, then? You could only ban Arma II.

 

By the way, in Germany, a ban is nothing like you think it is, you can still sell it, but there it is forbidden to promote it. You can buy it, when older than 18, you can import it too. But, and here comes the trouble with Steam, the provider (Steam) can decide to make it unplayable in your country, so this is risky. Germany alone, by the way, is one of the biggest markets for computer and video games, nobody wants to miss out on this revenue. This is, totally simpflified, how it works in Germany.

 

Unless, of course, things get completely forbidden, because they break national law and/or the constitution. An example would be the game calles Concentration Camp Manager. Cannibalism in a game available on Steam could fall under that rule, and could not be sold in Germany and you likely would not be able to play it via Steam.

 

On the topic though. No it should not be added. In our culture it is a thing nobody does, and in the rare occassions things like this happen, e.g. that plane crash in Chile, it is this or die. It is the last resort and always a traumatizing and hurtful experience. Just because it is an apocalyptic scenario does not mean every moral standard falls apart. Food is not scarce in DayZ, and likely never will. There is no need to simulate things in a game that could be exploited in a way to produce thousands of maniac serial killers, excusing themselves with the "sandbox-argument".