What an absolute creature.
Creature? I could think of another word that begins with c....
What an absolute creature.
Wow... didn't see that one coming!!! What a total joke...
Give it a little while for things to blow over and then surely it will be:
"Presenting, from Dean Hall - the maker of the best selling Day-Z (a Dean Hall inc. production) comes Dean Halls greatest work yet. Pay now for exclusive early-access - and he'll definitely see it through this time #DeanHallIsTheGreatest"
What the hell happened? All I can think is that a month or so in it finally dawned on him that re-using the same crappy engine that was blamed for all the fundamental problems the mod had was a mistake... And perhaps being too proud and arrogant to spend some of the colossal cash-grab money on a proper dev. team who could make good on his promises...
It's a real shame, but nobody can really feel cheated as it was all there in black and white on the game's description
"And it's kind of like cooking in someone else's kitchen: I don't want to be constantly telling Bohemia that this is how I do it and this is the way we do it."
"And it's kind of like cooking in someone else's kitchen: I don't want to be constantly telling Bohemia that this is how I do it and this is the way we do it."
Wow leaving and the game isn't even finished. So I guess the rushed "finished" version will be full of bugs and missing features and there will be a skeleton crew who will have no idea how to fix them.
What a pratt!
Why is everyone acting like this is the end of the game? He's not taking your money and running, he's leaving it in the hands of a team of people (around thirty if I recall correctly) he clearly trusts to develop it further. That team has been doing most of the work on it since standalone came out anyway.
I have huge respect for Rocket and for DayZ, it is his baby and it shows that his greatest strength is his creativity. Let me restate that with emphasis; His strength is his creativity. I mean no insult to Rocket when I say this despite it sounding harsh, but it's clear that his greatest talent is put to waste if he's a code-monkey (he himself says he breaks just as much as he fixes when he's working on the game) and he doesn't even seem to play the game as evidenced by his borderline noobish behaviour when he is playing it on his streams. Despite these flaws the concept of the game sprung from his mind and took form. That is a great gift to the PC gaming community at large, with the market being swamped by ****** and unoriginal games, and I am grateful for it.
If Rocket thinks he's done all he can for this game and must move on I respect his decision, I predict he's already working on a new concept for a game that might equally blow us away. I predict this because that's clearly what he does best, and he's established himself as a horse you can bet on when it comes to taking risks other developers and publishers won't and still making it a financial success.
Update -
Dean Hall is now working besides surgey in the upcoming WarZ expansion
Sorry, this was an awful quote to use, of course when someone HIRES YOU to be LEAD DEV you tell them what to do! Its called leading!
What did he expect, to sit in the corner and hope the team plucks ideas out of thin air?
That is a great gift to the PC gaming community at large, with the market being swamped by ****** and unoriginal games, and I am grateful for it.
If Rocket thinks he's done all he can for this game and must move on I respect his decision
Handbags! All I see is handbags
Handbags and helmets