DayZ creator angry about The War Z

Welcome to the world of business dean hall. I would think you would be old enough by now to know this world is ran by business.. Name one company that got to the top of the food chain by being empathetic to its competition. Honestly i was surprised that nobody had tried to capitolize on dayz' sucess before the war z was released. As much as everyone hates the War-Z everything they did was within the legal statue of law. Honestly dean hall did not buy the rights to the name "DAYZ" until after the warz was released, so it would have been perfectly legal for the warz team to use the name "dayz" and not have broken a single law considering dayz is just an unofficial mod.

Now thats its June 2013 we can start witnessing other titles like state of decay popping up from out of the woodworks which are also trying to cash in on dean halls idea.. So it was all just a matter of time before these things started happening.. Its been a year since dayz came out what has dean hall been doing all this time? From the second it had become popular he should have opened a kickstarter fund. Hired a large team of developers. And got moving!! Its been an entire year and the dayz standalone team are the same people who brought us dayz so its basically 1/50th the size of a development team thats required to make a game from the ground up.. Dayz standalone a year later still looks EXACTLY the same.. Dean hall has noone to blame but himself for being slow and dragging his feet instead of getting a legal foothold in the project soooner and getting a move on instead of waiting for the rest of the world to capitolize on his ideas.

we love you dayZ ?

Okay, what I find extremely hilarious here is the amount of stupidity on some of these comments.  "Oh he should sue."  Seriously?  He can't, bottom line.  And people getting so torn up over how "similar" the games are, get over it.  If game developers started fighting and crying about how another developer's game is just like theirs and wanted to give up on creating games, then we wouldn't have anything to play.  Some common examples; WoW, Guild Wars, Rift, Terra, Elder Scrolls Online.  Yes, they have different stories, characters, etc, but the core game, is the same basic concept.  Look at games like Fable, Kingdoms of Amalur, Witcher, Gothic.  Different stories, but same core game play.  Racing games, Forza and Gran Turismo.  The truth is, in the gaming industry, there will always be competition in the form of another game that is similar to one game.  I have played both DayZ and WarZ.  Yes, their are A LOT of similarities,  but they both did have a different feel to them.  This is where we have a problem in society.  People need to stop getting so upset when someone brings another product, idea, whatever to the table.  I'm not defending either developer, or either game, I'm just pointing out the level of absurdity this is raising.  Good Day! (imagine that being said in the voice of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.)

I've not paid much attention to what's been going on with War Z, but I have to say, fuck those guys. Seriously. Day Z came first and when it's released as a standalone it'll be fantastic. The War Z was such a petty attempt to steal the fame from someone who bloody well deserved it! The time and effort being put into Day Z is worth the wait, rather than jumping into some terrible knock off.

Fuck the war Z.  i knew it was going to be shit the second they started riding Day Z's coattails.

Is anyone else sick to death (haha, word play!) of zombies????  I mean, Resident Evil 5 was the last zombie game I played and it was most likely the last, as it sucked SO bad.... seriously, playyyyyyyed OOOOOUUUUTTTTTT.  If you don't get the metaphor of zombies... you are probably much closer to being a zombie than you think.....

Trust in us gamers, dude. We can tell the difference. And your family and friends should know better.

Both titles are blatant rip offs of Max Brooks' World War Z. Get over it Dean Hall.

I can understand about creator of dayZ being troubled, about his mod getting a bad name, Hammerpoint has named the game very close to Day Z's name, and has jumped on the bandwagon of Day Z's sucsess, but anyone who has been gameplay of the 2 let alone played it, will know the differences right away... ppl who haven't, may get the 2 confused... which is sad

I'm just waiting until a creditable company decides to cash-in on this fad and make a respectable survival horror MMO.  With how popular The Walking Dead is right now, its only a matter of time before we see "The Walking Dead Online."  Mark my words.

Jay-Z, BlueZ, ToneZ, Fartz, ... the list goes on...

Try to be more creative in naming your titles.

theres even the film War Z with brad pit in it. there are so many titles out there that your gonna get similar titles but Day Z and War Z are too close for comfort especialy if you want yours to stand out and were the first to come up with the name. Id be a little peed off.

He does know that he can sue the makers and can possibly get the game removed entirely doesn't he?

There are 2 problems with WarZ

1. Game was NO WHERE NEAR ready to be released, it should still be in Alpha... but they jumped the gun to try to muscle their way ahead of the game.

2. The developers lack of respect and truthfulness.

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WarZ has a bad review because it's not done, it's nowhere near being done... it's still being developed (go look at the patch for January 22, 2013) ... these are things that should have been in there before the game is in Beta! Let alone a damn release version... this is why it got a 2.0 rating... NOT because it sucks... because you can do MORE in WarZ than you can in DayZ, so as it stands... WarZ should be reviewed higher than the simply DayZ mod which I'd give a 1.0 if it were an actual standalone game.

What we need to realize is WarZ is actively being worked on, and new things are being implemented every month. If by the end of 2013 it's still a 2.0 game, then fine... But they are deserving of the 2.0 review, because they jumped the gun, and it's their stupid mistake which they'll never admit.

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DayZ as it stands is a 1.0 (if it were to stay the way it is, and consider itself "standalone")... it just has a community of very vocal and very dedicated players... that is my unbiased opinion since I play both, and understand this fact. Neither of them at this current time deserve any real crazy praise...

DayZ is fun, WarZ is fun... but it's not epic fun. It's entertaining for a while... just very limited.

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As it stands... the best thing would be to go look at "State of Decay" which will be released on XBLA and PC ... play it, and wait for their "State of Decay 2" or "Class 4 (codename)" from Undead Labs, they are pretty much the only ones that know what they are doing... Everything from keeping your group interested in staying alive and not commiting suicide... to gardening, machining ammo, and much much more...

www.undeadlabs.com

Cheer up Dean Hall, I have a can of beans that you started me off in the game that I could a give you. Beans!  Beans! The magically food.  The more you eat, the more you toot!

Change it to DayV where everyone shoots vampire instead! That would be original and has never been done before ..... Oh ... wait ...

I smell the ground works for a law suit in the future.

awwwww.....poor baby disappointed....cant he like change the name of his game to something like 'DayZ: its not The WarZ but just another zombie shooter among so many other zombie shooters'....might clear up the confusion.....

They're both meh....

Omg what a bunch of over-hyped pretentious narcissistic bull coming from the game's author. Compared to War Z, Day Z looks like complete crap, just as the original game Arma II. The mod is Free, meaning that the authors should not be making money on it, meaning that a similarly titled game should bring them more interest and should not affect their profit margin. BECASUE they don't have ANY !!! Am I the only one who thinks that all of this is just hype used to generate marketing and profits for this ugly game?

There are really too many negative comments for me to reply to each one explaining the weight of the insults that are so easily thrown towards this guy. You guys should all be ashamed of yourselves.  Imagine if this happened to a friend of yours, or even worse you, how differently would you react? A company swooping in and stealing your idea to make a quick buck, with no one in mind but themselves (War Z does not care for its players, it is hacker filled and with a scam of a micro-transaction shop) should not be seen as just another day in the gaming world. This is a guy who made a mod that was inspired by his real life encounters in the New Zealand Army, and gamers have distanced themselves from the idea that games are an art, and their developers artists. Hammerpoint had no right to steal Hall's idea, and I don't know how they would sleep at night if their product was the reason of any negative views towards either Day Z or Dean Hall himself. The fact that they have done this and the gamers that Dean Hall was proud to consider himself a one of, are taking the side of the corporation that took his art and slapped a different name on it, lazily put together a clone game, and sold it. I hang my head in disgrace to know I came from the same gaming community you guys are a part of.

I really hope everything works out for this guy, as gamers have not seen such a unique and great mod like this since DotA, and we've seen what money grubbing developers have done to that genre. I'll be waiting to buy the standalone game, I just hope it gets that far. Also, I see that a rather upsetting amount of people that comment and speak on behalf of this game or its rival, have really not played either game..

Please keep the hate and insults like "boohoo crybaby" out of these conversations. Is this what our culture of gaming has come to?

Aren't both of these games plagued by player camping issues and micro-transaction fleecing?  I just don't see the appeal for either in their current state...

OH WOE IS ME..... ffs get a backbone dude.

tired of seeing articles about this guy bitching about the war z. he is probably getting paid a fairly large sum to head up the day z project for bohemia, so he just needs to suck it up and stop being a baby. if he cant take this level of scrutiny he really does need to leave game development. what will happen when he makes his first "poor" game? will he kill himself?