What's the future of this franchise?

[iceman77 18]

Wolle, Foxhound and other mods... please don't lock or delete this thread. I want to hear what the Bohemia Interactive community thinks. I'm not posting in any vulgar manner or being mean. This isn't just another whine thread. I really want to hear what the community thinks, because I really care about this franchise and I'm worried. I've been hooked since ofp and haven't even played any other games until recently.At any rate...

After months of being gone, due to the lack of pvp servers and the overwhelming amount of DayZ servers, I come back and the Arma2/OA server list has the feeling of a ghost town. Not even a domination,evolution or warfare going. Of course there's plenty of DayZ servers going.Lately I've been playing BF3 to get my pvp fix. It's terrible compared to what pvp was in flashpoint, Arma1 and early Arma2. But it's better than Arma2/OA current state, and that makes me sad (literally). I figured by now, a lot of the newly had DayZ player base would have migrated over to the real game of Arma2 and that I may actually have some Arma2 pvp to look forward to.I reinstalled to find that even COOPs are dead.

Are there any plans to rejuvenate the original game play that was seen in OFP,Arma1,early Arma2... in Arma3? The way I see it, we have the best of the series (even better than OFP) coming up in Arma3.The new animations, the diving etc etc. But, will it just be another phenomenal, large scale war simulator over taken by zombies?

I realize DayZ brought BI more money, which some may think is great. Ironically, at what cost? The games lost several of the original, loyal, flashpoint and Arma players because of this DayZ mod. Not necessarily losing them to the DayZ mod, but losing them entirely, overtime because of the lack of actual Arma2 servers. The DayZ mod is like a cancer to the game. It slowly spread and has overtaken the game until it's become lifeless. The majority of the player base you had, played this game over other games (the BFs and the CODs) because it offered something different and unique in terms of virtual large scale warfare.Will we see this again in Arma3?

I would like to hear what the community thinks.So if you have an opinion please share it.I'd like to hear it. Thanks.

regards,

David

Edited October 25, 2012 by Iceman77

[Guest]

So, this is aimed at Arma 3, why post in the Arma 2 forum section than?

The Arma 3 section has some equal kind of topics which you can use to discuss the future of this game, the pvp scene, the influence of DayZ and what not. It is all there already if you search. I fail to see why we need another thread.

And please, do not adress the mods in your thread. If you are worried your thread may get locked contact them on beforehand than just posting and adding a message to the moderator team.