Re: DaiyZ Factions 1.7.7. with CHEATS - Based on Haleks Release

Posted by Above on Jun 17, 2013; 7:27pm
URL: http://kodabar-dayz-daizy-single-player-forum.163.s1.nabble.com/DaiyZ-Factions-1-7-7-with-CHEATS-Based-on-Haleks-Release-tp8955p9069.html

DayZ_SP wrote

@Saprykheid
@Havoc

I play games to have fun, and I am aware fun is a matter of perspective.

Arma II is a military simulator, but let's be honest. It has a ton of failings as far as replicating the real world of combat, but the big one it can never overcome is it is in fact a game. This just means we accept certain limitations and allow our imagination to fill in the blanks and excuse some of its shortcomings because we want to have fun with it. That's why we play games in the first place.

In contrast, as an adult gamer, I don't have six hours to crawl around in the grass only to find tin cans in a hospital where medical supplies used to be after getting hit by a Zombie and then slowly dying of infection after all that. That's not fun to me. It may be fun for somebody else who has the time, but that is not me and a lot of other players as well.

Now, in my humble opinion, DayZ and DaiyZ... Which are interconnected... Are becoming less fun and focused more on trying to be "realistic" (relative term) at the expense of fun. DayZ mostly because Rocket doesn't know how to balance it (yet) which is tied directly to the engine limitations, and DaiyZ because of the limited number of people still developing for it. This brings me to...

@Haleks
@Above_DayZ

You two have done a great job taking DaiyZ to the next level with all of the features you have added. I commend you for your continued development.

However, when another poster asked about including cheats, you brushed them off and wrote, "cheats ruin the game" and that was the end of it. Since you two are the only active developers that makes your way of playing the game the defacto way of playing DaiyZ, now.

You may not be aware of it, but this is what it means to have the power of active development... Just like Rocket does. And similar to what may be happening with Rocket, you need to consider there are other players who may want the choice to play the game a different way than you. All great power requires an even greater responsibility to the public at large.

That is why I released this patch.

It has only been downloaded 65 times as of this post, but what that says is there were 65 people who wanted to play the game with more options than you were offering, but they felt marginalized and/or afraid to speak up out of fear of being called "less serious gamers", or that really offensive term, "casual gamer".

This is the trap Rocket is falling into, IMO. He is taking his creation too seriously in an effort to try and make it stand out from the crowd... When he should just be focusing on what made the game FUN in the first place.

I know you two are passionate about DaiyZ development as am I. Just make sure your passion doesn't blind you like Rocket, and remember we all play games to have fun and less choice can mean the difference between having fun, or not.

As I said last time, with all due to respect. Have opinions, but don't try to change people.

I think it's a small thing to fight about, we've argued for 1-2 days now. Over a cheat menu.
I don't wanna be that guy, but people are dying on a daily basis.