seems you fanboys are the ones putting out misinformation here, what I said is true; you can buy ammo, food, medicine, scopes. not just comestic items.
maybe you would like to explain why am I wrong. i'd admit to misunderstanding something since I haven't actually played the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Us9YcjUWCg
as I understand you have 2 currency types; gold coins and dollars, both found ingame. gold coins you can buy, in the above video you can buy AK ammo for 1 gold coin. ergo the assumtion that if you are willing to spend some RL money you have infinite ammo. infinite ammo with AK in dayz would mean you would never die to a zombie. ever.
and then theres medicine/food etc.
basically this stuff might be acceptable in a f2p game.
First of you're looking at a video that was released 1 month ago, has the ALPHA even been out that long? EVERYTHING is subject to change.
http://imgur.com/a/sncPiThere is a album of the current shop.
Screenshot in question
As you can see only SVD ammo is the only ammo that you can currently buy, which is Sniper Ammo. I've NEVER seen or heard of a Sniper ingame so I'm assuming these are incredibly rare weapons so I don't really mind. I don't even know what the arrow is used for maybe a Crossbow? Also a weapons I've never seen so I'm not sure.
The more common weapons the ammo is all ingame money set at STUPID AMOUNTS of currency, as you can see I only have 300 after 6-10? hours of gameplay.
Melee weapons are fine as the hammer rapes everything and is common.
Hats are useless. NVG costs ingame money.
Foods costs ingame, not a big deal as its not hard to find and you can literally run on zero food meter for 1 hour before dying, don't care if people buy food anyways since it doesn't really give them an advantage as food is common.