The WarZ on Steam for £2.74 lol!

[Pob255]

Top seller as in recently, or has actually sold more copies over all?

We don't know, that's one of the infuriating things about steam is that valve will not release any of the actual sales figures.
The top sellers lists they publish is probably daily

When I first saw WarZ which was back in 2011 I think. I instantly thought DAYZ RIPOFF! But I remember there supposedly being some evidence that it had been in development, or at least some sites/facebook pages had been registered before DayZ was announced. Though I think the evidence was fairly questionable...

There was a big stink about this and I seem to remember that the evidence amounted to nothing more than an idea for a zombie survival game called "WarZ" nothing about the form of the game.
It's obviously has had some development time, but how much and what was done when is questionable.

WarZ does have better animations over DayZ, esp the zombies, but it's had major issues with hackers and is basically unfinished, which is a total mistake when you have the gall to to charge people not just for the game but also micro transactions, so you can end up paying real money for items which you'll lose when you're killed.

One of the ideas they where talking about that I really liked was that it would have a player created mission system, a way players could create basic MMO type missions, a feature that is not implemented AFAIK

[Lurchibles]

=Don't really like Dayz much anyways..

It's a flawed mod that takes a lot of work to get going. But the standalone is looking promising! It is going to have cholera in it, anything with cholera looks promising right?

[ZaO]

We don't know, that's one of the infuriating things about steam is that valve will not release any of the actual sales figures.
The top sellers lists they publish is probably daily
There was a big stink about this and I seem to remember that the evidence amounted to nothing more than an idea for a zombie survival game called "WarZ" nothing about the form of the game.
It's obviously has had some development time, but how much and what was done when is questionable.

WarZ does have better animations over DayZ, esp the zombies, but it's had major issues with hackers and is basically unfinished, which is a total mistake when you have the gall to to charge people not just for the game but also micro transactions, so you can end up paying real money for items which you'll lose when you're killed.

One of the ideas they where talking about that I really liked was that it would have a player created mission system, a way players could create basic MMO type missions, a feature that is not implemented AFAIK

Ah right. Yeh that info isn't all that useful then I suppose. It does look like it really copied DayZ. But I'm not really bothered which had what ideas first. This WarZ sounds terrible!

It's a flawed mod that takes a lot of work to get going. But the standalone is looking promising! It is going to have cholera in it, anything with cholera looks promising right?

Well I'm an old school Arma player. Been playing since it was called Operation Flashpoint actually if anyone remembers that... The two most recent flashpoint games are nothing to do with Arma.. Anyway. I enjoy the Arma games a lot. This DayZ mod is a cool idea and I get that people enjoy it, I really do. But in Arma you have vehicle transport to get accross these massive maps. Played DayZ with a friend who is obsessed with it and he tells me it's not all that hard to sort a vehicle out. We spend 5 hours solid, just running and running and running around... You find a couple things wooo! Then a player just shoots you and kills you and you've lost the lot. Because let's face it, this is just a free for all deathmatch with zombies on the side! We never got a vehicle sorted btw. But I can imagine that if you play with a decent group of people who communicate over voip then it could be fun. I often play lone wolf as not many of my friends are pc gamers. So a game like this don't really suit me. It's just lots of running around. Kills me!

[ZaO]

Just saw this: http://pcgmedia.com/the-war-z-adopts-new-game-name/
Last ditch attempt to save it maybe haha...

[Pob255]

That's some nice PR there, I think it more likely two factors
1 - the trademark was under review and has now been denied
2 - All the bad PR connected to the name WarZ

I do think you have it right on DayZ, I do like the survival aspects of it, but both the survival and the zombies seem to be more minor annoyances in what's basically a massive death match.

[ZaO]

I do think you have it right on DayZ, I do like the survival aspects of it, but both the survival and the zombies seem to be more minor annoyances in what's basically a massive death match.

Same as DayZ right?