Re: dAIzy needs a reddit

Posted by kodabar on Jan 04, 2013; 9:44am
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/dAIzy-needs-a-reddit-tp1797p2087.html

Hopefully Rocket will get the standalone released soon, so we'll be able to decide what the future of all this is.

The agreement between Unknown and Zed Hunter and myself only applies to the three of us. If any of you guys want to go ahead and publicise and distribute the modifications you've made, I won't make a fuss. I'd rather we all waited until the standalone release makes things clear, but I can't make you abide by a decision I took with other people.

I rather suspect there won't be a single player aspect to the standalone though. The future of the mod version of DayZ is a bit clouded too. Rocket has said that he'd like to continue the mod version as a development and testing platform for the standalone. But then Rocket has said a lot of things...

It does frustrate me that you chaps haven't had more recognition for your excellent work, so let's hope that the situation becomes clear soon.

One thing that stood out from the Kronzky/Rocket incident was that it was actually Bohemia who wrote to Kronzky to tell him to take down his SP file. Given that Kronzky's file didn't use a single resource created by Rocket (although obviously, running it did), this seemed to be a bit of a contradiction to their open modding philosophy.

If all this did end up going legal, I would feel absolutely confident in defending this (I've been to court before), but such processes are, by necessity, lengthy and expensive and they tend to create a lot of ill feeling no matter the outcome. So I'd much rather avoid any legal challenge, no matter how baseless and silly.

One of the main tenets of our rationale for not publicising DaiZy and its derivatives is that Rocket hasn't made any money from DayZ, so it would be unfair to provide a free alternative to a paid product if the standalone includes a single player mode. As Rocket has moved to Prague and is heading the Bohemia DayZ team, he really must be getting paid these days, so that muddies that issue a little.

Blah, blah, blah... What a lot of fuss about a fun game of zombie-shooting...