I also bought this game long time ago, but in Q1'2014 the game was unplayable.

I tried it again half a year ago (only two patches: 0.57 > 0.58) and I play it ever since however I also got some kinda bored as plenty of people left the game.

It seems there there is a handful of players left. In 0.57 there were plenty of full servers. Now there like dozens at most, more often a few servers with 38-40 48-50 players logged in.

No zombies.

No fun killing bambies or bambies with barely decent armament (MP5/CR75).

No fun traveling in cities (massive FPS drop in cities).

Almost no vehicles (V3S) as they are already hidden and no new spawns of them.

Hardly bearable loot distribution system (ridiculous spawn or no spawn).

No bicycles.

Hardly a handful of clothing pieces.

Poor crafting system (very little of items to craft).

You can barely do a hunt for animals - complete randomness of wildlife spawn.

Very very long development life cycle (players tend to be bored as updates took place barely once a quarter).

Early alpha status for almost 2 years.

i wrote a Long text but the damn token Setting with the time delete the text. So short:

First of all: i played the game now over 2000hours of fun.
I have deliberately DayZ and not bought Arma, because I wanted not to play a mod, but one game on its own. I wanted to have a post-apocalyptic zombie survival game where I can show how good I can survive when the world would be collapsed.
But why do we need a helicopter or a grenade launcher against zombies? That's something the world does not need against ZOMBIES.
But this shows us that prefer items are copied from Arma, instead of staying on topic.
And do not forget: I never wanted to have Arma, which is why I have not bought.
But all the items refer: PvP instead Survival.
So, the only challenge is PvP.

• Insufficient Dynamic Events (the only dynamic Event is the heli Crash)
• A static map we saw all places (Here could be seen as dynamic events on a server, a landslide or be something where it pays view, times to run through the Map)
• There useless items like a broom were inserted, but great things, such as hand grenades and mines away because they could not be developed without Errors
• The rain was once great, as he has only obstruct the view or the sound is reduced. Thus he became the tactical element of the game.

Well, where you freeze, you just quickly change the server, because you can not make PvP in the rain and that's nunmal the only challenge in this game.

• The only challenge is PvP. That's also fun. But there are too many hackers and bad Glishes against which something is done too slowly.
• And a very bad spawn System (spawn playces after dying or get killed)
• A lot of death-glishes (for example run into a small side cabin for tools and glished dead in the doorway)

I love this game, but it has become very boring if you do not PvP against many players suddenly. And it's very frightening and sad when you come to Electro or Cherno and no one is in these cities.
Then the challenge is still away.

And basebuilding: only the Barrels are great because the rest is to big to hide. And look on the game "miscreated": Basebuilding sounds good but is usless in a survival game. Use this experience.

Hi -GER- Tombo,

As it is now, there are no plans for enlarging the map. However, basebuilding still has a long way to go (more features incoming in the future), and the amount of players per server will be increased once server performance allows for it. There's info on these subjects over at the forums, in case you feel like having a look: http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/134-developer-discussion-status-reports/

There's info on fps/client performance as well.

Regards,
JStewart