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    Yeah, presumptuous, that's me. I made it pretty clear I was speaking for my self, voicing my own opinion.

    I also wrote that "I can see why people are upset". I realize some people are fans of the SP and plays it. I'm one of them.

    In fact, I basically haven't touched the MP of the neither the ArmA series nor the original OPF games (not even co-op).

    However, sometimes games have their release dates pushed. And this is basically what's happening. Except, Bohemia have chosen to release the finished parts of the game. Meaning those who want to can enjoy every other aspect of the game, while waiting for the single-player campaign to be released. Would it be better/less upsetting if the delayed the whole thing? At least now you can still play the finished MP or create your own missions/skirmishes in the editor. You have access to the islands, all three factions, and every single weapon and vehicle.

    As a huge bonus you also have access to one of the best and most creative online communities there are, and the awesome content it produces.

    Although you won't have the official campaing there are still fun to be had in community created missions, or trying out different mods.

    If you're limiting yourself to only playing the single-player campaign, you are missing out on what the game truly has to offer.

    But according to DnA the release date isn't being pushed, the full game is being "released" as half-finished with the campaign being delivered at a later date. If they declare this a full delay and extend the beta by giving us a significant content update such as Altis then I can understand. But the course that BI is appearing to take is a scummy one. Then again, I don't know because we found this out through a third party source. Why isn't there a new spotrep up explaining the situation already?

    And to your second point, I do play MP and enjoy MP but it's the precedent it sets. BI is effectively telling the community to do their work for them.

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    I'm going to have to steal that ProGamer http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3vdsl0/

    True true, and to their credit they are taking on a lot of what is placed upon their plate. They may not get to the simplest of tasks at the time but they still have gotten them...they could updated the lighting engine post beta and left it there but they continued, lights could have remained shining for a mile but they fixed that too. They do have a lot to work with and I can respect that but the process has been..confusing.

    It's not difficult to understand why some people are so upset, but I would like to hear the reason for this delay, if only to bring some understanding to this confusing topic.

    It might have been better to state the reasons before the interview though, considering the community has an all seeing eye and....exciteable nature.

    That's the thing though, this decision wasn't decided on last week but obviously some time ago. Why are we only finding about this through a third party source? It's almost as if BI's hand was force because of this leak.

  4. Posted

    I'm going to have to steal that ProGamer http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3vdsl0/

    True true, and to their credit they are taking on a lot of what is placed upon their plate. They may not get to the simplest of tasks at the time but they still have gotten them...they could updated the lighting engine post beta and left it there but they continued, lights could have remained shining for a mile but they fixed that too. They do have a lot to work with and I can respect that but the process has been..confusing.

    It's not difficult to understand why some people are so upset, but I would like to hear the reason for this delay, if only to bring some understanding to this confusing topic.

    It might have been better to state the reasons before the interview though, considering the community has an all seeing eye.

    This obviously was decided some time back and I'm no longer willing to give BI the benefit of the doubt so I'd be bet this leaked interview forced their hand to make an announcement.

  5. Posted

    Hi all! The information about the campaign in this article is confirmed, but not complete. We had hoped to openly discuss this with you via a blog next week, so you would not have to rely on a secondary source. Please wait for our blog in which we explain our motivation and more details about these plans.

    The only thing I will say now: there will be a campaign for Arma 3 soon after initial release, and it will be FREE for everyone who has the game.

    Oh wow, you mean to say the thing we paid for will eventually be delivered to us? What a fucking steal! I think i'll inform everyone I know about what a killer offer this!

    What is this, kickstarter? Arma3 will only be "released" when we actually get what was advertised initially, a single-player campaign along with everything else. From this post it appears you're going to ship half a game and pass it off as "released' when it in fact isn't. So why not just cut the crap and extend the beta until the game is actually done. Hell, since we're getting only half the game when it's "released" why not just give us Altis now? And frankly, boasting that not having to pay for the thing we initially put money down for is just laughable from a veteran developer. I would expect something like the first set of DLC to be free for all alpha/beta participants.

    I've been playing BI games for over a decade and it's become clear that they don't seem to think much of their player base. Shame on me for falling for their snake oil yet again.

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    Can you upload a dropbox copy of your mission? Maybe I can help.

    Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk 2

    It's actually not a real mission haha, just an ammo box in the editor with the requisite line in the initialization. Still trying to get my bearings straight about editing in ARMA.

    You have put the VAS folder in your mission folder?

    Which VAS folder though? Is it the main one, the one in the gear.stratis folder or the one in the scripts folder?

    Thanks

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