[Indie Game] Project Zomboid

This sounds like my kind of game. I will definitely be keeping tabs on it, and may just have to try the alpha. If only to smother my wife
 
Tempted to buy into this, but based on their other games I am not sure if they will keep working on this for that long.... Their other games look to be a bit of a joke, both in content and price...

Jcb33.
 
jcb33 said:
Tempted to buy into this, but based on their other games I am not sure if they will keep working on this for that long.... Their other games look to be a bit of a joke, both in content and price...

Jcb33.
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That's because they are a joke :p

Google won't let them sell an unfinished product so instead they sell the joke games and give you access to Project Zomboid for free!

There's a disclaimer at the bottom:

PLEASE NOTE – Please do not consider the free gift of a LIFETIME subscription to play Project Zomboid in your decision of whether to purchase the other games. This is purely a bonus. You are paying purely for these fantastic products.
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So is this game good and how long roughly do you survive for?

What sort of goals are available?

Is the gameplay fun ?
 
atm it;s still the pree tech demo stage (they released the tech demo early because of leaks) it's quite fun but very basic atm.


needs building up yet.

Atm i'#d describe it as pre infdev mine craft levels of development.
 
Project Zomboid said:
EDIT: Due to recent events we’ve released the public demo earlier than anticipated, so our paid customers have something to play. Torrent only, I’m sure you understand. Click here for download.

Pirates have made a version of the game that auto-downloads Project Zomboid from our server whenever the player clicks an ‘update’ button.

We’ve always turned a blind eye to pirate copies, even on occasion recommending people who had problems with the legit version try a pirate version until the issues are resolved. We realise the potential viral benefits of pirate copies, and while obviously we’d prefer people to purchase our issue is not with those.

However, these ‘auto updating’ versions of the game could screw us completely. We have a cloud based distribution model, where the files are copied all over the world and are served to players on request, which means we are charged money for people downloading the game. Whether piracy actually amounts to lost sales we’re not going to get into. The possibility that it raises awareness and promotes the game cannot be ignored, but the difference is offline versions on torrents, which we’ve been largely unconcerned about, do not cost us real money, only potential money, and even then we can’t really guess at what the net effect is. Likewise people who download the game through our website only download it when there is a new version, so once every week or so. These new pirate copies have an ‘update now’ button which will download the game every time it’s clicked, potentially every time the game is run by everyone using it.

Apologies for everyone who’s purchased the game, but this has the potential to cost some of the development funds we’ve made so far, and we can’t risk it. We may be overreacting. But we have no idea of the numbers that could be involved and since an auto-updating pirate version effectively removes any need to buy the game and suggests they are ‘in it for the long haul’ if they are playing the version for numerous updates, we can’t count on ‘try before you buy’ sale conversions from them.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Stupid bloody pirates. Go pick on EA or something :mad:
 
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