DayZ creator Dean Hall has said that the standalone version of DayZ could be finished in the next few months and released before Christmas.
Speaking to VG247, the standalone version will see a lot of improvements and new content such as base building to encourage people to buy the game.
“I want to see it become a standalone game, following the Minecraft model of a low price point, but that will only work if we say that everyone is going to pay,” said Hall. “In order for people to not feel ripped off we need to have a load of new content; so, things like base-building, tidying and cleaning up animations and add ragdoll physics as the like.”
Hall is still currently trying to get a deal done with either ArmA 2 developers Bohemia Interactive or with another company and said that he has gotten a number of investment offers.
The DayZ mod is fast approaching 1 million unique players.
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It’s Bohemia Interactive ‘s own fault, if they didn’t realize how much money could have been made with this mod. Instead they sat on their fat asses for 3 years now (DayZ was started in 2009) and relied on selling additional copies of their bugged and ugly Arma II engine. They should have helped Dean Hall long ago and create a standalone package for sell. The could have cleaned up the engine and the ugly graphics as well. Now Bohemia panics because, another one grabbed the idea: the creators of WarZ will release their own version of zombie apocalypse this late summer/fall, which will already contain base building, clans, barricading etc. – things which will probably take much longer to implement than an christmas deadline for Bohemia. I for my part will buy the WarZ version.
I think it’s still too early to say that the War Z will be a DayZ killer. We need the Beta first! Need help with DayZ? Go to the DayZ GuideZ channel! http://youtube.com/user/dayzguidez
Retikulum WarZ will be F2P therefore terrible
I do ask that they try to bring the to console with the same awesome experience. I would be willing to play this on pc but I am much more of a console player. Bringing this on console would give it lots more sales