The ludicrously popular Arma 2 zombie mod known as DayZ has taken the PC gaming community by storm in the past few months, performing the insane feat of pushing a three-year-old game to the top of the Steam sales charts for over seven weeks straight, holding the top position for much of that time. It comes as little surprise then that Arma 2 developer Bohemia was eager to keep that unexpected gravy train rolling, announcing today that DayZ would be re-released as a standalone game.
Pretty much everyone saw this one coming. When a mod for a game catches this kind of success it’s pretty much inevitable. DayZ follows in the footsteps of such games as Team Fortress, Counter-Strike and Dota 2 that got their start as mods and were eventually re-released as a standalone package.
Details are scarce at this point regarding what changes the retail release of the game might bring, though it is confirmed that mod developer Dean “Rocket” Hall will be leading the dev team, and apparently the Arma 2 version will continue to receive regular updates alongside it. The game will be sold in a model similar to Minecraft, offering an early beta release at a low price that will get higher as development moves forward.
The ease of installing DayZ by itself rather than having to buy Arma 2 and set it up manually will certainly attract droves of players who would never have even played the game otherwise. That said, time to begin complaining about these aforementioned “filthy casuals” who will surely somehow ruin the game.
I’m very happy for this. I have a hard time enjoying DayZ, as even walking through a doorway is a chore. Hopefully being standalone will improve things of this nature.
Sounds like something good. It’s just been annoying to see that people only associate ARMA II with some mediocre mod. And the flash of popularity it has received lately never ceases to annoy me. Especially now that even Steam acknowledges the mindless droves of people who would only buy the game just for the modification alone. I’ll never understand what people see in it anyway.
I’ve owned ARMA II since 2009 and ran it on 4 different graphics cards (HD 5770, GTX 460, GTX 570, GTX 570 SLI, HD 7850), but always sticking with the trusty i5 750 @ 3.6 GHz, and it has always ran like shit. This put me off the base game and DayZ.
so i assume it wont run like ass now
Here’s hoping it will get options (starting equip) and private servers. Also if we’re to believe our preferred news outlets, filthy casuals already ruined the game.
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