DayZ has ruined this franchise.

[oO Para Oo]

Our server is now full of people who don't even know how to start helos, select nades, people who take helos and crash them at base, people who tk then leave.
Honestly I am sure Dayz has helped Bohimia with sales but the core game is suffering, I for one am thinking of passwording the server I am getting fed up of it.

Domination? I have to type the same bloody thing over and over again. These kids have not done 1 tutorial of the main game, yet they come in to servers
expecting us hold their hand 24/7 they HAVE NO IDEA what domination even is.

Fed up of it. Thoughts?

[AlphaCentauri]

Our server is now full of people who don't even know how to start helos, select nades, people who take helos and crash them at base, people who tk then leave.
Honestly I am sure Dayz has helped Bohimia with sales but the core game is suffering, I for one am thinking of passwording the server I am getting fed up of it.

Domination? I have to type the same bloody thing over and over again. These kids have not done 1 tutorial of the main game, yet they come in to servers
expecting us hold their hand 24/7 they HAVE NO IDEA what domination even is.

Fed up of it. Thoughts?

DayZ has brought in new players to the franchise, but it has in no way ruined it. If you don't want to teach beginners how to play the game, you're probably better off locking the server.

[maturin]

Yeah, thoughts.

Domination sucks without an established squad and usually anyways. Public vanilla MP pick-up games have always sucked. Go join Tactical Gamer, United Operations or play Project Reality or something. Never seen any of these mythical Day Z newbs in any game run by a community.

What I have seen because of Day Z is a little thing called PATCH 1.62

[metalcraze]

Truth be told DayZ community won't cross into ArmA2 as the general consensus there is that ArmA2 was shit that nobody wanted to play and then DayZ saved it by making it something worth playing.
Maximum that DayZ players do is post that bs above in youtube and ArmA3 preview comments which is of course annoying but apart from that ArmA should be "safe".

Public gaming was always awful in this game since it stopped being OFP and started being ArmA - that's nothing new.

[^Th0mas^]

Mod support have always been a huge part of the ArmA series. DayZ is no different. Also it has given us new players.

[kylania]

I've seen major announced features cut from ArmA3 and it's release delayed till 2013 due to "lack of resources" and yet at the same time rumors that we'll get a stand alone DayZ game by Christmas. Who knows...

[oO Para Oo]

DayZ has brought in new players to the franchise, but it has in no way ruined it. If you don't want to teach beginners how to play the game, you're probably better off locking the server.

Its not I don't want to teach, I have over and over and over, fed up of it, there are tutorials these people dont even do those. How many times have I see people take the chinook and fly straight into Ao then get shot down// spawn and do it with other helos.... sick of it.

[VanhA-ICON]

Being an admin on open server has always been like that.
One does not always have the patience for tutoring newcomers of course but we've all been there for sure, pondering abour right controls and methods.
Passworded server is an option.

DayZ cannot ruin this franchise but I'm sure being unfriendly for new players is a way to ruin one in the long run.

[maturin]

How many times have I see people take the chinook and fly straight into Ao then get shot down// spawn and do it with other helos.... sick of it.

Sounds like every pre-Day Z game of domination I ever dropped into. Doesn't that mission have pilot restrictions for this reason anyways?

[W0lle]

I've seen major announced features cut from ArmA3 and it's release delayed till 2013 due to "lack of resources" and yet at the same time rumors that we'll get a stand alone DayZ game by Christmas. Who knows...

Rumors yeah, and a Dean Hall who thinks about making it a standalone game but not sure on what engine.

That said, what on earth makes you think that the delay of A3 has something to do with these rumors? And when BI said that they will take part in developing a standalone DayZ? Were they involved in IF44 development? No.