I don't understand

[Funkmaster Rick 373]

There are many "Forum people" who want nothing but a hardcore game. It's now gotten to the point where realism is thrown out the window. These elitists think only their opinion matters, even when it's in the minority. Most players want the game to be realistic. This product right now is not realistic by any means what so ever.

I feel it's necessary to point something out, here. I'm not totally certain, but I think you have an incorrect picture of the game in your head.

This game has never, ever been about hardcore realism.

No, really, it hasn't. What this game has been about is the somewhat less common concept of 'authenticity.' Allow me an example:

In a realistic game, breaking your leg means months of recovery where you do nothing fun.

In an authentic game, breaking your leg requires some sort of investment to overcome, and the size of that investment is expected to be on-par with the size of the problem it solves. For example, finding morphine or crafting a splint. Both of these require an investment of some kind, either the rare and valuable morphine shot, or the pain-in-the-ass that is finding a stick and bandage when you're crawling on the ground in pain.

 

DayZ is not a realism simulator. It's a zombie survival/horror with an authentic feel. A lot of that authentic feel comes from its roots in ArmA 2, and the way it adopted and adapted certain combat mechanics, but I don't think it was ever intended to be actual realism. It's certainly a lot deeper than any other game I've played.

 

As to 'forum people,' there are a lot of those. They occupy widely disparate social groups. They shift and blend between groups. What they are not is "elitists who think only their opinion matters." You should not use the term 'forum people' like that. You should spend some time learning how to read an internet forum; it will help a lot. As it stands, your post kind of makes you look like one of the many loud jackasses who thinks that only their opinion matters. You find a lot of them on internet forums, unfortunately. But they're not called 'forum people.' I recommend any of the following terms as both proper and thematically correct:

Jackasses

Trolls

Knaves

 

Just keep in mind that they are a small (but vocal) subset of forum-goers, not the majority.