DayZ Price Increases by 15%, Immediately has "15% Off Sale" - Update

[SJXarg]

Did it get a major content update at the same time? If so, did they deliberately decide to release it to coincide? I doubt that very much.

The game is currently at 0.50, either 0.49 or .48 enabled persistance, which has led to some amusingly well stocked fire stations, and the 0.51 update which should be out quite shortly, unless I've misunderstood, is going to have the V3S truck n it, with a primitive version of the new repair mechanics, which is one of the big things people have been clamouring for (persistance/tents, vehicles, helicopters - with the V3S that'll be 2/3). I'm inclined to give Bohemia the benefit of the doubt, given that they very likely have no control over the sale timing.

Regardless, it's a shady and slimy move that is purely intended to make it show on Steam sale without them losing any money in the "sale."

That said, I was expecting DayZ to follow the Arma3 pricing pattern, which saw 3 phases, alpha price, beta price, full release price, so I wonder if Bohemia has decided to introduce more, smaller price jumps, so it goes up by $5 a few times, instead of a couple of $12-15 jumps.

 

[Kajin]

This irks me a great deal, especially considering I don't believe the game was worth thirty bucks in the first place. The only reason I spent forty bucks to get Arma II to play the mod was because I got a whole game out of it as a bonus. The mod itself wasn't worth forty bucks. It wasn't worth thirty bucks when it went standalone.

I'd have paid maybe fifteen for it at the most. A price hike just means I'll likely never buy it.

 

[SJXarg]

Follow up post, tent and vehicle V3S now in game (patch downloadin'). That's 2/3 of most people's wishlist, and probably deserving of the price bump, given extra vehicles will be added based on the V3S (the way the M4A1 was used to make sure all gun attachments worked). Human flesh also added (is psycho simulator about to evolve into psycho cannibal simulator?). Just helicopters to go, and that'll be 3/3 of most wishlists I've seen for mod vs game content, and maybe people will stop complaining about how "shit" the game is.









Haha, who am I kiddin'.