Congratulations Bohemia Interactive

[aLmAnZo]

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This has been going on for days now. Highest I've seen is on third place. Even over Skyrim! It's been persistent within top ten for over a week, maybe more.

Rocket is surely making a lot of money for you. Seems like he is in for a promotion :P

But yeah. A sincere congratulations to you guys. It's about time more people recognized the wonder your game is. It's a great spark for your future release of ARMA III too. Highly deserved

[Slatts]

theres no money been made from it, rocket made it privately

it could of been you or me who made DayZ such is the beauty of Arma

EDIT: the picture just loaded i see what you mean now but my point still applies, anyone could of made dayz

[NoRailgunner]

One could also ask 'wtf is wrong with some people buying a military game just to play a zombie mod?' But maybe people only got a little bit bored with other games and just trying out something new?

[aLmAnZo]

Either way, I think it might be good for the ARMA community anyhow. Let's be frank, DayZ fits perfectly for the ARMA engine, and thus makes it shine for new players. If even a portion of all these new players would get into regular ARMA gameplay, it would be great for our community. I hope with all of my body that ARMA III will be a top seller. Even better, I hope it will steal a chunk of Battlefield and Cod costumers, so that the industry had to pay attention. We need more developers making good games, Bohemia is pretty much alone in that aspect.

[Onjin]

Either way, I think it might be good for the ARMA community anyhow. Let's be frank, DayZ fits perfectly for the ARMA engine, and thus makes it shine for new players. If even a portion of all these new players would get into regular ARMA gameplay, it would be great for our community. I hope with all of my body that ARMA III will be a top seller. Even better, I hope it will steal a chunk of Battlefield and Cod costumers, so that the industry had to pay attention. We need more developers making good games, Bohemia is pretty much alone in that aspect.

I am a new player to ArmA, in fact I am downloading it now after playing the demo. I do not plan to play DayZ at all. Zombies are cool and such, however, I don't believe they belong in a game like this. You can find me on steam under Onjin_Dog. I do need to practice, so I will be doing campaign first after tutorials.

See you on the battlefield soon.

[-=seany=-]

In the history of games, mods always do make a surprising amount of revenue for the Developers. Like Counterstrike, Desert combat etc. I know of a racing sim where a whole swathe of people bought the game just to "cruise" and not race, much to the dismay of the established race community. But hey! what ever makes the devs more money can only be good. Well done BIS.

[Jedra]

It's a great example to those publishers who see 'modding' only as a way to lose money from potential DLC sales. Although Rocket has done this in his own time (come on Rocket, I bet you took at least one sickie!!!) it certainly will have given BI some extra (probably unexpected) cash from game sales.

The only downside is the 'new people' who have moved in - some of them are cads, bounders and general ruffians. We still have time to turn them into civilised people though!

As an aside, I actually got to play DayZ in daylight today - it was much more fun than every other time I played (always night-time) and I didn't spend two hours afterwards with a red glow still in my eyes!

[Orpheus]

As an aside, I actually got to play DayZ in daylight today - it was much more fun than every other time I played (always night-time) and I didn't spend two hours afterwards with a red glow still in my eyes!

I don't have the game/mod, but as far as I know, the time of day in the game depends on where the server is located- if it's night time in the server's timezone then it'll also be night in the game. So just pick a server that's situated in such a timezone where it's day

[Jedra]

I don't have the game/mod, but as far as I know, the time of day in the game depends on where the server is located- if it's night time in the server's timezone then it'll also be night in the game. So just pick a server that's situated in such a timezone where it's day

Cheers - I did actually know that, but thanks anyway! At the moment having the luxury of picking a server somewhere specific is hard - as they are all 30/30, 40/40, 50/50! Also the time I usually get to play means that servers in daylight are starting to give very high pings!! Anyway, it's an alpha and all these types of things are probably being considered by Rocket on his days off (legitimate, none-sickie days off that is)...

[Dajunka]

I bought Arma II CO and it took me along time to get comfortable with all of the aspects of the game. I am still a noob, but a lot better than when I started. But I have to tell you this is one of the best games EVER. I get so engrossed you could stick a pin in me and I wouldn't react.