6 months in Alpha state....

[Sputnik (DayZ) 5]

any guess when we reach Release version? Or at least Beta?

[bassist05 69]

You act like six months is a long time for a game to be in alpha.

[Beloozero 118]

*cough*minecraft*cough*

[Sputnik (DayZ) 5]

You act like six months is a long time for a game to be in alpha.

Yeah, it's pretty long. Average game lifespan is about a year, especially with Arma 3 around the corner! Edited July 14, 2012 by Sputnik

[Webb (DayZ) 0]

Yeah, it's pretty long.

Not anywhere close to long - especially for an indie game/mod. Hell, even the big studious go into Alpha for numerous months before beta testing, and they have millions invested into scripting/art/sound. Rocket is doing this himself, without any multi-million dollar backers.

[roccoc@gmail.com 11]

Natural Selection 2. Unknown Worlds Entertainment robbed all of us who preordered.

Edited July 14, 2012 by goodfellarocco

[bassist05 69]

Not anywhere close to long - especially for an indie game/mod. Hell, even the big studious go into Alpha for numerous months before beta testing, and they have millions invested into scripting/art/sound. Rocket is doing this himself, without any multi-million dollar backers.

Not only that but as far as I know it's only Rocket working on this.

[roccoc@gmail.com 11]

lol for whatever reason you have to highlight my previous post to see all of it.

[krtshv 362]

Yeah, it's pretty long. Average game lifespan is about a year, especially with Arma 3 around the corner!

Yeah, when you have a team of 300 Coders, Artists, Animators and etc working on the game.

[pr0cess 3]

Going by what Rocket said i don't think will see a beta, I think the next step they will take is a StandAlone version, This as stated by him over and over is an "experiment"

[Sputnik (DayZ) 5]

Not anywhere close to long - especially for an indie game/mod. Hell, even the big studious go into Alpha for numerous months before beta testing, and they have millions invested into scripting/art/sound. Rocket is doing this himself, without any multi-million dollar backers.

Indie you said? Maybe not, plus it's a matured software... Don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining... I just think it's polished enough to be Beta version the way it is right now.

[HooDoo (DayZ) 0]

Have you read any of Rocket's interviews?

[peliluola@gmail.com 28]

When they get all the current bugs sorted out I think the game is ready for the shelves. Betas are usually for games that don't have open alphas and need the user feedback to find all the bugs. This instance there are already over 600k unique player ID's so I think the feedback has been gotten. No need for beta as far as I'm concerned.

[Sputnik (DayZ) 5]

Yeah, when you have a team of 300 Coders, Artists, Animators and etc working on the game.

You must be talking about games like BF3 then? Well BF3 is more broken then DayZ, being an almost a one year old official release!

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

any guess when we reach Release version? Or at least Beta?

As long as lots of underlying logic, core mechanics and frameworks are missing it won't go into beta.

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Average game lifespan is about a year.

... Just what the hell have you been playing?

Even ARMA 2 was released in 2009, and it's pretty damn alive 3 years later.

[DayZPvP.com 143]

Alpha = creating new content

Beta = squashing bugs

Once those 2 are done then the game will be released in whatever medium. Or not.

Anyone telling you they know what is going to happen is a fool because not even Rocket/BIS knows yet.

Edited July 14, 2012 by DayZPvP.com

[Sputnik (DayZ) 5]

... Just what the hell have you been playing?

Even ARMA 2 was released in 2009, and it's pretty damn alive 3 years later.

Average Edited July 14, 2012 by Sputnik

[Ejaculacid 19]

He doesnt need million dollar backers, he's pretty much using most of the stuff from Arma2

[Batuhan87 24]

This game is still in Alpha version with LOTS OF BUGS.

[HooDoo (DayZ) 0]

Here is a link to an interview for what Roket's plan involves.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/725688/day-z-creator-envisions-minecraft-like-model-for-standalone-release/

[Ejaculacid 19]

Here is a link to an interview for what Roket's plan involves.

http://www.g4tv.com/...dalone-release/

If its the panel from UK ive seen it, lol'd when he stated Arma2 engine is great.

[NigeyS 16]

Not anywhere close to long - especially for an indie game/mod. Hell, even the big studious go into Alpha for numerous months before beta testing, and they have millions invested into scripting/art/sound. Rocket is doing this himself, without any multi-million dollar backers.

Actually, he's not doing it "Alone" do try to remember Ander, Shawn, Dwarden etc ...

[bassist05 69]

Actually, he's not doing it "Alone" do try to remember Ander, Shawn, Dwarden etc ...

As far as I know those are just forum moderators, not developers.

[xeaglenec 13]

face it. dayz (as a mod for arma) will never leave the "alpha" stage.