Congratulations Bohemia Interactive

[kdjac]

2 months later....

Dayz has filled the game full of "special people" who have showed/exploited how many serious flaws this game has, we had a few....we used a tracker to fix them. Now all of the flaws and the reasons why this game/engine was never sold as a finsihed product are coming to light, theres so many flaws we didnt even see because of the way we were playing the game.

Iif anything it shows how Op Flash fans will buy anything made by BIS and play it their way. On the other hand it shows BIS are not ready for the "special people" to play this game.

Dayz will not work without a locked down game engine ie unmoddable.

Decisions...Decisions.....

[^Th0mas^]

Now that BIS is making a shit load of money because of DayZ its just another reason to not rush the release of ArmA 3.

[W0lle]

This thread is to thank BIS, not for Discussion about whatever and surely not about DayZ or A3 development.

[IceBreakr]

As someone who spent 100s (1000s?) of hours working on free stuff for community (mostly islands), I'm kinda glad we're staying in A2. One of reasons I stopped working on new island is because first info on A3 release was actually Summer of 2012

[Celery]

Dayz has filled the game full of "special people" who have showed/exploited how many serious flaws this game has, we had a few....we used a tracker to fix them. Now all of the flaws and the reasons why this game/engine was never sold as a finsihed product are coming to light, theres so many flaws we didnt even see because of the way we were playing the game.

IMHO the better they manage to break the game or uncover its flaws, the better in general. It provides very good debugging information if it's forwarded to us through CIT, or if constructive threads about certain design elements are made.

[BasileyOne]

well, with THAT scale of development and sales, soon DayZ start pushing aside even EU, FoM and -alike
BIS just need robust billing system to attach to it and lotsa of tools for socialization[like built-in messenger/mail system, built-in and two-way auctions/market, gates to social networks], bigger island and lot of code polishing/generalization.

[MavericK96]

IMHO the better they manage to break the game or uncover its flaws, the better in general. It provides very good debugging information if it's forwarded to us through CIT, or if constructive threads about certain design elements are made.

I agree, though I wonder how many DayZ players have actually provided useful information via the CIT or sending RPTs, etc.

[Overlord]

Now that BIS is making a shit load of money because of DayZ its just another reason to not rush the release of ArmA 3.

What's wrong with making money? Not all of us have parents paying for our joy, and BIS, for sure, wanna pay their employees.

W0lle wrote:

This thread is to thank BIS, not for Discussion about whatever and surely not about DayZ or A3 development

+1
IMO BIS do a great job in this segment, which isn't actually game, but a military simulator. If anyone see benefits in using their engine in developing games, it's even better. Maybe, in a far future (but before spaceships), they actually got the nerves to take on ArmA2

[MavericK96]

IMO BIS do a great job in this segment, which isn't actually game, but a military simulator. If anyone see benefits in using their engine in developing games, it's even better. Maybe, in a far future (but before spaceships), they actually got the nerves to take on ArmA2

I would say that ArmA 2 technically isn't a military simulator, that would be reserved for VBS 2. ArmA 2 is somewhere between a military simulator and a shooter game.

[ProfTournesol]

I would say that ArmA 2 technically isn't a military simulator, that would be reserved for VBS 2. ArmA 2 is somewhere between a military simulator and a shooter game.

And a sandbox game.