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DayZ Status Report

[Jan 26, 2013, 5:09 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The DayZ Blog has an update on plans for a standalone game based on the DayZ zombie modification for Arma II (thanks VG247). This covers a broad variety of topics, and concludes with a handy summary of where things stand right now:

When is it releasing?

We don’t know. We’re going to take our time. I feel fantastic about the situation, more than ever I feel like we’re doing something really interesting with this development. Now is not the time to rush things, but we do need to ensure our pace is kept up. Our development blog and getting players in and testing as soon as possible will be key in ensuring we succeed in making this a great game.

Concluding words

At no point in development, have I been as excited as I am right now. The risks we took with the direction have paid off. The engine and approach of the game is now entirely DayZ’s own, it is striking out into it’s own territory as a project. This is very exciting for all the team.

I do need to caution though, it is a bad idea to overhype the project. We know that there are many challenges that we will face from deciding to effectively write a new engine tailored to DayZ. But we are now entirely confident, that this decision will prove to have been the best decision we could make. Now we will be able to make the game that we’ve all always wanted.

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Re: DayZ Status Report

Jan 28, 2013, 12:01

Dev

Snapdad wrote on Jan 27, 2013, 15:51: Dev wrote on Jan 27, 2013, 12:29: Why? There's been tons of sales of ARMA 2 with the game only being a mod, and an unfinished one at that. Some people would argue minecraft isn't much of a game either, and its sold millions. There's clearly a proven market out there for those kinda things. Because Minecraft this is not. No, but there's similarities. Both have a lot of openness. Both are survival type games. Both are very popular (while day z is a mod, arma 2 isn't, and many people have bought that specifically because of that mod). A quick google shows that 1 million different people tried it in the first 4 months of release. link

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Comment [quote="Dev"Jan 28, 2013, 12:01][quote="Snapdad"Jan 27, 2013, 15:51][quote="Dev"Jan 27, 2013, 12:29] Why? There's been tons of sales of ARMA 2 with the game only being a mod, and an unfinished one at that. Some people would argue minecraft isn't much of a game either, and its sold millions. There's clearly a proven market out there for those kinda things. [/quote] Because Minecraft this is not. [/quote] No, but there's similarities. Both have a lot of openness. Both are survival type games. Both are very popular (while day z is a mod, arma 2 isn't, and many people have bought that specifically because of that mod). A quick google shows that 1 million different people tried it in the first 4 months of release. [url=http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/dayz-eats-million-zombie-fans-soon-be-full-game-928598]link[/url] [/quote]

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