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Re:Postmortem: Launching the War Z by joshmn on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:29AM (#8891626)
Would love someone's take on this game as it stands.
Re:Postmortem: Launching the War Z by zimbatm on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:48AM (#8892006)
Review on Steam by azid2k9 with the most upvote:

From someone who has over 500 hours in this game, I can tell you that this game is not worth $1.

It used to be fun in alpha, before they started tweaking everything, and giving streamers special treatment, and hiring people who bashed the game constantly.

There's bugs everywhere, there's always been bugs, and there will always be bugs because the developers are idiots and didn't take one small thing from all the other MMO's.. A Public Testing Server.. As obvious as it might seem, that's something these money hungry developer's either didn't consider or just plain over looked due to costs.

There's been a cheating problem since the beginning and there will always be a cheater problem because instead of investing in an actual anti-cheat (Their current one is FairFight and it records statistics, all in-game bans are done by hand.) I seriously recommend you not play this unless you plan on cheating yourself because that is the only way you'll ever survive, unless you're actually somewhat decent at FPS's, which, in that case, be prepared to be banned at random times because a streamer or someone well known in the community said you cheated.

In the beginning, the developers stole their terms of service from League of Legends, banned people at random times to scare off cheaters (their version of an anti-cheat), and used fake screenshots which resulted in the game originally being pulled from steam. (Seriously.) It's for some reason been allowed back onto steam, and I believe everyone should know of this games terrible past and know that it's not changed one bit. Sergey Titov "OP Productions, LLC. CEO" (Previously known as Hammerpoint Productions) even went as far as to lie in interviews about this game, and delete any comments or reviews that said otherwise.

Players who requested a refund originally were reported and blacklisted from the website which then caused them to have international troubles making any further purchases for anything, even things not involved with online games, I.E. General online shopping..

Taken directly from a mod who previously worked for Hammerpoint / OP Productions

http://leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/t6F9c.jpg (Source - http://www.leviathyn.com/news/2012/11/29/the-warz-team-black... )

Avoid this game at all costs.

Re:Postmortem: Launching the War Z by snlacks on Thursday January 15, 2015 @10:13AM (#8892843)
I think 500 hours of gameplay is a great deal. I don't play many games any more because most of the talent and budgets go to multiplayer games, but I don't relate to the people who play/talk loudly about these high-production-cost multiplayer games. They're interests and concerns are different than mine.

The social nature of gaming has alienated me.

Re:Postmortem: Launching the War Z by Karma_Police on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:02AM (#8891874)
Not sure what the policy on linking to reddit is, but there was a recent discussion in /r/games (this is a subreddit for game discussion only. no memes).

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2qr7ra/i_know_its_bee...

With the start the game had, there was some surprise there were almost 4000 players at the time.

The gist of the comments are that it is still an awful buggy game, but apparently some people enjoy it (and some even stream it on twitch).