Post by Dan @ 10:29am 20/12/12 | 22 Comments
A statement from Valve offered to Kotaku indicates that it was the Steam platform-holder's decision, and that they are permitting full refunds for unhappy customers:
From time to time a mistake can be made and one was made by prematurely issuing a copy of War Z for sale via Steam. We apologize for this and have temporary removed the sale offering of the title until we have time to work with the developer and have confidence in a new build. Those who purchase the game and wish to continue playing it via Steam may do so. Those who purchased the title via Steam and are unhappy with what they received may seek a refund by creating a ticket at our support site here.A follow-up statement from The War Z Lead Sergey Titov indicates that the developer expects that the measure is temporary:
We're making sure that our Store page is 100% correct this is why.However, given the severity of the issue, and the multiple ethically-questionable accusations being levelled by extremely vocal unsatisfied customers, we'd expect Valve to be doing some serious thinking before giving them the Steam green-light again.
Bottom line – our end goal is to have satisfied and not angry customers, so this is more important for us than everything else.
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Posted 10:30am 20/12/12
Posted 10:48am 20/12/12
Posted 11:14am 20/12/12
There is obviously a market for a game like this, and if it had been even half of what they said it was, and headed by a good dev team, it could've been great. Instead we got this cluster f***.
What a lot of wasted potential, if only THQ could have gotten that money.
Also, hehehe
Posted 12:22pm 20/12/12
Because you know, it was our fault for reading the features in a way that made it seem like the game wasn't a s***** hack rush job and they were flat out lying about most of the things on that list
I only know of 1 way you could of read that page, it was full of bulls*** that wasn't in the game at all.
I've never even played 1 of these DayZ like games but I get really pissed off when game devs lie to their player base.
Posted 12:55pm 20/12/12
Anyway, I'm glad I didn't buy into the hype of this piece of s***.
Posted 01:56pm 20/12/12
Seems like they've got the 'micro-transaction' end of the game far better polished than the actual game itself.
Ever since its announcement, WarZ seems to be money grubbing based on the successes of 'Dean "Rocket" Hall' and the work done in the ARMA 2 engine.
I really enjoyed Day Z's play style, however devoid of non-PVP end game that it was. It was in NO way a 'casual' game, but as a simulation of 'survival horror' I've never played anything like it.
Posted 02:10pm 20/12/12
The micro transactions are polished because it, like most of the war z assets are pulled directly from their war inc pay-to-win shooter.
Posted 02:26pm 20/12/12
I can't believe the attitude the devs are taking towards the customers. Plus around 24hours after being on steam they change the respawn rate to 4hours and you have to pay around $0.40USD to respawn earlier.
Hilarious.
Posted 03:11pm 20/12/12
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Posted 03:07pm 21/12/12
That's what's on the cards for DayZ.
Posted 09:21pm 21/12/12
Hate seeing that the people behind it are really uber douchebags
Posted 09:56pm 21/12/12
Posted 10:49pm 21/12/12
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Posted 12:22am 27/12/12
Diablo 3 i wasnt a fan after i couldnt find a character i enjoyed a few hrs in. But ive never been a big RPG player. Never tried MMORPG. Also, i played solo and i swear many games that offer coop are better coop (borderlands 2 for example).
Towns i tried the steam demo. 19 hours played. Just purchased @ 50% off on steam. I dont know about the whole people raging thing.
Id be much more concerned with all the goddam s***** console ports that we are expected to pay full price for on PC that often dont work correctly, than what i think are a minority of people that rage after being suckered by previews / hype. Im sure there are times where people are mislead (such as what seems to be the case with War Z) but if somebody buys a game after reading some hyped preview 6months before release and expects it to be 100/100, then is disappointed with the final result then IMO thats their problem. I think back to seeing glowing Sniper Ghost Warrior previews talking it up yet it scored a 55/100 on metacritic and was pretty piss poor (i didnt fall for the previews but got it on sale for $5, good value @ that IMO). Or my $30 russian key BF3 experience that required hours of f*****g around with origin to get it to recognise internet connection (despite every other program on my PC having no internet connection issues) only to get a game that i would be disconnected from averaging once a game and with s***** hit detection despite f*****g loving BFBC2. Do i rage @ BF3 and its devs? No, because i guess im in the minority as many guys on here f*****g love it.
Dont get me wrong. I dont mean to rage or bash your opinion. I just think there are clear lines between what War Z seems to have done, and a game that somebody doesnt like. Hell, i didnt like borderlands 2 but plenty of guys on here loved it.
Posted 12:31am 27/12/12
For starters, he wasn't exactly looking terribly hard. He also wasn't being stealthy, plus he wasn't hitting them in the head.
They die in a few hits if you can aim.
::EDIT:: And even the torch can kill them in a few hits.
Also, weapons are strewn around the place, but ammo is very scarce. All guns come with a full clip, but you're better off using a melee for searching towns.
It's actually quite an easy game to deal with zombies (though I played before they upped zombie counts), he was just doing it wrong and hating hardcore because he makes money off it.