H1Z1
Oh how we all love and hate this game. How we wish a title with such a huge potential would be fixed once and for all. In this post, I'll be talking and explaining in more detail what is it about the promising game, H1Z1. The ironic thing about this post is that I have never played this game ever... - although, i have been following it from the beginning, watching people play it and reading articles and reddit posts about it. Needless to say, the only reason I never played the game it's because I don't have a good enough PC.
So, H1Z1 has two different gamemodes, i guess you can say. 1 is King of the Kill (KotK, before they split the two gamemodes, it was called Battle Royale) and the other one is Just Survive (JS). I'll be talking about this later on this post.
H1Z1 has been the center of attention, both for good and bad reasons (mostly bad reasons) since the open alpha version of the game was released back in early 2015. The reasons why there's been such a big drama are numerous - from the community hating the developers for being a money grabbing company, to hating the changes in the game, etc.
Let's start from the beginning. DayBreak, the developers and publishers of the title, firstly said, before the early alpha release, that the game would be free to play, nothing, you didn't have to pay a single pence to play the game. Later on, it all changed. They charged £14.99 for the early alpha access, which although it's a rip already (i mean, why would you pay to play a game that's not even finished yet, that will have numerous bugs and issues, and "will" end up being free to play when it's finished?) it's still comprehensive, since if the early access was free, there would be too many people connecting to the servers for example, creating chaos. But then, the unexpected (or expected happened). With the huge success (or over-success) of the game becoming super popular and hyped up, especially by the streaming community on twitch, DayBreak announced that the game would no longer be free to play once it was fully released. Outrageous. The community was very angry at the developers, and they had the right to be. The devs were turning out the be money grabbers, according to the fans.
Still within the same topic, since the game had two different communities all along (one that played the game for JS, and the other one for Battle Royale) the devs decided to split the gamemodes, having one different team of devs for each specific gamemode, which is understandable, since they had been struggling with all the issues within the game. Now, some people really liked the split, and thought it would be beneficial for the game, some didn't like it and here's the main reason why: when DayBreak splitted the game, people who didn't have the game yet would now have to pay twice the amount of money, £15 for King of the Kill and another £15 for Just Survive, which again, it's a money grabbing move by the devs. It was once said that the game would be free to play, then people had to pay a total of £30 if they wanted to play the two gamemodes... - in the early alpha version. Not to mention, by now, there were multiple, optional micro-transactions in the game already. Again, outrageous.
Some of the other reasons why people hate the game and the company it's because of all the bugs and glitches that the devs are apparently too lazy to fix, or to even try, and all the general issues with the game, from hackers to broken and over-powered features in the game that could and should easily be fixed, promised new features to get more money from the players, the fact that it seems like the devs care way more about the KofK gamemode when initially people got hyped up for the JS gamemode, etc.
In conclusion and what people don't understand is that: H1Z1 is still in early alpha. The game is NOT done yet. Yes, there will be bugs and game-breaking glitches, YES there will be cheaters, yes there will be multiple issues with the game. And we all have to admit, the devs are smart for availing the popularity of the game, in order to make profit, even though, they lied to us. We just have to be patient and hope that the game comes out as the master-piece we want.
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