The War Z

[Uumdi]

[Vibe]

awesome game

[Carthan]

I wouldn't be surprised if after this sergey became a politician, seems to be the only thing he is qualified for now.
If not over qualified

[Tibe]

Biggest cunts in the gamingindustry. Lets just say I saw this coming a mile away. Always wait for reviews than buy it. Didnt loose moneh to a scam. And those pictures they put up for false advertising were clearly bullshit.

And 2 years of development? Didnt DayZ come out 2012? Cause they logically got the idea from DayZ. And the freaking description in their homepage: "The War Z is the best Zombie Game you will ever play. A Zombie Survival MMO that puts you in a world of Zombies ready to eat your brains! Will you survive!?"
 Bitch please! Basically same stuff as those incredible moondream Kickstartercampaigns that have 100% chance of going nowere.

[Nessaj]

(...)They randomly ban accounts that have a certain amount of time spent playing in-game, knowing they are hooked on the game so they re-buy the game. ^source

This is supposedly a lie.

The information came from a disgruntled forum moderator who was removed after being hacked (and his account abused to delete important threads etc in the forum).

Here's Sergey Titov's response:

Regarding Devin - our ex moderator

I'm not sure if you saw that he just posted this new video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svd-p3-CURk

I have a few comments on all this :

Normally I wouldn't even comment on this whole deal, but in this case our lawyers were prepared to send him pretty nasty letter and before they did that, I've reached to Devin and basically asked - why you spread all those lies. And he replied to me which was unexpected and explained that he felt really bad that he was banned from being voluntary moderator after spending dozens of hours and being passionate about game for what he thinks was a small mistake.

So we've talked and I didn't even mentioned that we may go do anything legal against him - there wasn't any point in doing this - he offered to apologise and asked to be back helping community. Some of his ideas are actually quite good, so I decided that he deserve second chance.

You may see him on forums, and it'll be up to community to decide if you want him managing community or not. We're making this game for players, so it's up to players to tell us HOW game and community should grow.

Bottom line - we're all humans, we're doing stupid things, and sometimes those things are bad enough so we should pay price, and sometimes they're not that important and people should be given second chance.

Additionally - there is a thread on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/ that needs upvotes! The thread "WarZ forum mod that stirred up all that controversy last week admits he was lying." is on the front page. Please upvote this so people can see the truth about us and our game. (I would link directly to the thread but reddit automatically downvotes the thread when you do that.)

Thanks everyone!

Sergey Titov
Executive Producer
The War Z

I'm not saying the game doesn't have other issues of course -- which it seemingly have A LOT of, but parts of the accusations originate from lies.

[Kafein]

Sergey Titov...

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[Nessaj]

(December 20 2012) The War Z interview: Sergey Titov responds to backlash, sale removal from Steam: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/20/the-war-z-interview-sergey-titov-backlash

For the time it was available, The War Z was at the top of Steam’s top sellers list. How many copies did you sell?

Titov: We can’t really comment on this yet, however the game performance on Steam exceeded our expectations. Overall this is a very good thing for us—even with all the bumps, The War Z proved to be a very attractive game for players. Good thing is that our daily performance indicators—number of concurrent users, number of daily players are growing—despite all the negative press recently. I can tell you that as of today we have close to 700,000 registred players, with close to 180,000 players playing the game daily.

No doubt that a large part of the 700k are beta testers etc, however the minimum package is 15$, second 25$ and last 50$, going by the lowest:

700000 * 15$ = 10.5 million U.S. dollars, so let's say just 400k of those actually paid for the lowest package, that's 6 million, and there's tons of people who bought the highest rated packages.

Even if just going solely by the daily active players reported:

180000 * 15$  = 2.7 million U.S. dollars

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Not too shabby for simply modding a shitty engine (War Inc). If someone were to actually make a proper game, less hardcore than DayZ but same genre, no doubt it would be very succesful.

[Molly]

He's everything but a failure.

He made a shitload of money, sold his studio to some investment group - I'd call that profit.

Called it first

[Christo]

700000 * 15$ = 10.5 million U.S. dollars, so let's say just 400k of those actually paid for the lowest package, that's 6 million, and there's tons of people who bought the highest rated packages.

Even if just going solely by the daily active players reported:

180000 * 15$  = 2.7 million U.S. dollars

Mind.. blown.

I have to remove my spine, and start ripping off people like this.

Seriously $_$

[cmp]

This is supposedly a lie.

...

Here's Sergey Titov's response:

I'm not saying the game doesn't have other issues of course -- which it seemingly have A LOT of, but parts of the accusations originate from lies.

Looks like somebody got bought.

[Nessaj]

Looks like somebody got bought.

He could have paid off the moderator, sure
Not like he couldn't afford to!

[Carthan]

700000 * 15$ = 10.5 million U.S. dollars, so let's say just 400k of those actually paid for the lowest package, that's 6 million, and there's tons of people who bought the highest rated packages.

Even if just going solely by the daily active players reported:

180000 * 15$  = 2.7 million U.S. dollars

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Not too shabby for simply modding a shitty engine (War Inc). If someone were to actually make a proper game, less hardcore than DayZ but same genre, no doubt it would be very succesful.

[GreasySausageSandwhich]

The game wasn't TERRIBLE, but after playing a bit of it, it was apparent that it wasn't near as good as DayZ.  This game is going to fail solely because of these money-grubbing shitbag devs.

[Lordark]

if ea makes left 4 dead 3

Dayz and Warz are FUCKED. 

Take the game for what they are not for what they are hyped to be.

Quiet feeding the internet troll drama rage and refocus that energy into the diplomacy forums lolzolozlolz.!

Fuck you.

[Uumdi]

I had more fun on WarZ already than I ever did on L4D, I regret to say.  Just never liked the series beyond the character design.