LOL
Really though if you want to give your £15 to play this utter mess (I won't even call it a game), "Worth a Buy" sums it up pretty well in his H1Z1 review on youtube if you missed it?
We are led to believe that this has been in development for over a year on an existing game engine (aka Planetside 2). Gameplay in pre-release videos and twitch feeds appears to me to be of a more complete or "tweaked" version of the "game".
Like others have said this is what will kill the PC games industry if companies aren't careful. Seems all they care about these days is making a quick buck off of our anticipation of the next great game so much so they ask us to pay for the privilege of testing their un-finished (possibly never to be finished) games. If enough people purchase the early access what incentive do the companies have to finish the game production? The premium version of H1Z1 "Alpha", yes ALPHA is £30!!!! WTF? There are fully finished games available on Steam for <£15.
Everyone in our gaming clan/group was anticipating the arrival of H1Z1 so I've pushed myself to play much more of this than I would have normally. I'd rather pull my teeth out.
Everything appears to be an after-thought or been coded in the quickest way possible just to tick-off functionality requirements.
I wish the Zombie genre could just rewind back to the original Arma 2 DayZ mod. It worked! it wasn't perfect but it had the perfect atmosphere and IMHO it will never be eclipsed - the zombie genre is dead, thanks to SOE this is probably the final nail in the coffin after the previous failures of DayZ Standalone and Survivor Stories. Actually Survivor Stories WAS actually quite good and much much better than H1Z1. In fact I can't think of anything worse than H1Z1...
The whole air-drop thing and then Smedley's back-tracking on Twitter was just another confirmation of the massive cash cow that this really is. They are a business and they've seen how much money Survivor Stories and DayZ Standalone managed to pull in with the pre-release model and they've thought to themselves we want a slice of that cake too.... Kudos to them, they have become rich overnight.
Its about time someone used the World of Warcraft / Eve Online subscription model for a survival / zombie based MMO perhaps then we would have some success. But looks like the only people interested are those intent on quick get rich schemes.
Yes I've got my refund and I will be back to Breaking Point / Epoch, I will watch what happens with this and I do hope I am proven wrong! really!
I know the fan boys will no doubt wade in now to defend H1Z1, fill your boots I don't bite so you are wasting your time. If you are happy then I'm happy for you!
To sum up what "Worth a Buy" says in his review - its like someone has made this in their bedroom...