Hi, thanks for taking the time to link the helpful threads, unfortunately though I feel that I have already spent enough of my time earning the money to buy a product and don't feel that I should spend even more time now reading tons of information to get multiplayer working in a game that is predominantly multiplayer! I have spent a year enjoying missions with friends and then out of the blue, it is broken. I don't feel that we should be expected to partake in hours of research just to get the game to work normally. What's wrong with: Load Arma, select multiplayer, create server, tell friends server name, connect, play.
That's what it used to be, why change it. The game is now broken, it is an end user full release game. All I should need to do is download on steam and open it.
Its is weird how such a popular and successful sim / game does not get the attention it needs BI need to hire some of the incredibly talented people in this community to take a look at the problems from a new perspective and get this thing fixed.
Bring back gamespy, at least that worked flawlessly. Another sad Arma fan :(