ScubaSteveWA

Been a long-time lurker here and user of Arma 2 for quite some time, and I've got to say I was shocked when I re-installed the other day and saw nothing but DayZ servers. It's good to see a lot of sales going BI's way, however my main problem with this mod is while it's getting them lots of publicity but it's not the kind of publicity Arma wants. As people have stated before, almost every article about Arma people comment about DayZ and how they love it. This is great, but it's created an image of Arma solely around zombies, and not around the military simulation it really is. I feel a lot of you are being too optimistic by thinking these new guys will find Arma and enjoy it, since these are completely different play-styles. The type of people that play these type of zombie games are not the people that play military simulators. Many of these people are the types of people that play games such as COD, which are good for instant fast action shooting but nothing else. Not only does it bring in a different image for Arma itself but I imagine it's going to drive away the very customers Arma wants. People who want to play military simulations are not going to find a game so centered around this new zombie mod appealing. Aside from the increase in sales and possible new patches BI has been working on due to the huge amount of new buyers, I can't say I'm a big fan of this mod. But then again, I have never found zombie games enjoyable so I'm going to be critical of it. I'm hoping this DayZ mod goes stand-alone for Arma 3 if it gets updated for it. If it goes stand alone I would fully support this mod in since it would only help with the sales for BI, however right now it seems to be negatively impacting those of us who just want to play Arma 2 for what it really is.