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[werty892]

What I dont even

[Frank2368]

Wait, so League of Legends stole War Z's Legal Agreement? Those bastards.

[justinlee999]

I really hope the creators get into a ton of legal trouble.

EDIT: Also http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=114076844

EDIT2: http://forums.thewarz.com/showthread.php?64238-English-Forum-Rules

"NO Hacker threads period. Nothing related to Hackers/Hacking/Hacks. If it has the word "Hacker" In it; don't make it."

[Rex_Nex]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[timferius]

Posting to watch the fireworks.

[Alkhemia]

So does that mean that legally they can't ban anyone only riot can?

[miauw62]

I hope the riot guys will unban everyone.

[Bdthemag]

I'm so glad that I'm a pessimistic asshole, otherwise I might of actually bought a pass for this game.

[Felius]

So, here's Total Biscuit take on the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKAm3nzg6I

I'm at 17 minutes right now out of 42, and yeah, it is interesting to see him suffer through it.

[PanH]

I bought the game before the pre release (and had a refund a few days after).

They actually put the Ligue of Legends EULA (The "head" of OP productions, Sergey worked at Riot games, the same guy that insulted WarZ's players of gays and such). But I think they changed the EULA.



And there isn't enough words to describe how awful this game has turned out to be.

[fenrif]

This game is pretty fun though?

I bought it before or during the alpha, I forget exactly when, and played it for like 2 weeks solid. The only reason I don't play it more at the moment is due to work.

It's like DayZ but not designed by an idiot that hates the people who play his game!

Also that TOS thing is from the first beta release, which was months ago. Why are we all talking about it again?

The funny thing about this game is that much of the controversy surrounding it stems solely from the fact that somehow a game developer aping a popular game is considered a negative thing amongst most gamers. Dwarf Fortress comes out, and anyone trying to make a game in that genre is derided as a ripoff. Same with Minecraft, Same with DayZ, etc. Not saying that the Hammerpoint guys haven't dropped the ball quite a few times, but that impulse to just hate on anything that's similar to a game you really love (not talking about anyone in particular, just gamers in general) is really wierd to me.

Personally I like it when there's more of the things I like.

[jhxmt]

The funny thing about this game is that much of the controversy surrounding it stems solely from the fact that somehow a game developer aping a popular game is considered a negative thing amongst most gamers.

Actually, I think most of the controversy about The War Z, at least from the recent purchasers on Steam, is the fact that it was effectively misrepresented on the Steam store - stating that key features were in place (e.g. up to 100 player per server) when this was not in fact the case.  This, coupled with an utter lack of any mention whatsoever about the beta (or 'foundation' or whatever euphemism is popular at the moment) status of the game means that an awful lot of people bought what they thought was a full-featured game and found instead that they got half of what was advertised.

Honestly, the Steam War Z forum is a car crash right now.  It isn't helped by the appointed moderator of that forum (who is also a mod on the War Z forums, apparently) actively deleting any thread that criticises the game or, indeed, contains information on how to get refunds from Steam (the moderator is instead trying to redirect people to the War Z developers' own refund system i.e. getting banned).

Hell, I haven't even played or bought the game and I'm finding just the out-of-game drama entertaining! 

[majikero]

Is there any truth to the 4 hour respawn thing and bans?

[fenrif]

Well I said much of the controversy. The games had this sort of thing surrounding it since it was first announced, months before it was released. The Steam stuffs been going on for like a day or two.

Though not saying the game is in beta or alpha or whatever is pretty stupid, and the devs seem to be bad at community interaction/management in general. The game is still pretty fun though.

I do however find Total Biscuit whining about things in this game that he's had no problems with in other games kinda funny.

Is there any truth to the 4 hour respawn thing and bans?

AFAIK there is now 4 hour respawn timers, but I always just deleted my characters when they died anyway, it's not like you lose anything.

And bans I guess are true? I heard they banned a load of hackers recently. What specifically are you asking about?

[PanH]

And bans I guess are true? I heard they banned a load of hackers recently. What specifically are you asking about?

Hackers would be the wrong word. Baiting items in "inaccessible" place isn't an anti-hack. Nor banning people that they know "would buy the game again if they get banned".

I can go on on the list of what's wrong in the game : game being accessible the first day of Alpha by both Alpha and Beta testers, the stealth system, the AI, the rendering system, the unique items given by devs, payment for clans, mod of WarInc (false ad), servers capacity, etc.

And of what's wrong outside of it : false advertisement, blatant lying, no communication at all dev/community, censorship, abusive bans, insults the players, changement of what offers a package after selling it, and so on.

And I'm not even talking about some flaws of the gameplay, which would have been acceptable.

Though not saying the game is in beta or alpha or whatever is pretty stupid

That's basically what they did the whole time. Vaporware.