Spielt es noch wer?

jep ich und 2 Kollegen zocken es noch.
Das Problem ist das Sie viel anfangen zu entwickeln, aber noch nicht mal 1 Sache beendet haben.

ich spiele das game auch noch wenn du bock hast zu zocken schreib einfach ne PN

Es gab eine Stellungnahme zu den Problemen in den letzten 2 Monaten.

Zitat

Dear fellow Survivors,

It has now been more than two months since we launched
public access to The War Z. We’ve definitely had our ups and downs, and I
thought that this Holiday break was the right time for me to try to step back a
little and think about our journey since it started. This may be a little long,
but I would appreciate if you could stay with me for a few minutes as I try to go
over the highlights of the game as well as some of the hurdles and controversies,
how we have addressed that and what our plans are.

First of all a very big and sincere “Thank You!” to
all of you. We are really proud of the community we have formed with you guys.
Every day we have hundreds of thousands of players on our servers, and this is
a life-changing event for the team and me. We are blessed to have you as
members of the community and we are well aware that without you the game would
be nothing. Along with that thanks, though, I need to admit that we failed to
effectively communicate some of our plans and actions to both our existing
players and to our new prospective players. This failure to communicate
resulted in some very negative feedback from some members of our community, but
while it might be easy to label them as “haters” or some other dismissive term,
in all honesty this is my fault. I became arrogant and blinded by the early
success and quick growth of The War Z, our increasing number of players,
numbers we were getting from surveys, etc., and I chose not to notice the concerns
and questions raised by these members of the game community as well as others.
This failure is entirely on my shoulders and if anything I owe thanks to that
vocal minority and admit that I should have paid attention sooner. I chose
instead to concentrate on the bigger picture – my dream of turning The War Z
from being a game developed by a small indie team into a large online venture,
instead of addressing small things first and staying focused on the game
issues. At the end my arrogance led us to the moment, when all those small
things finally caught up and created a “perfect storm” that affected all of our
community members. For that I’m truly sorry and apologize to all of our
community as well as the larger PC gaming community that is not yet playing The
War Z.

I do not take this situation lightly, and last week events
were especially humbling for me. I’ve experienced a range of emotions, most of
which centered on regret for not having addressed some of the issues
differently than we did, but we can’t change the past. The only thing we can do
is to be sure that we won’t repeat the same mistakes in the future. I have
realized that as the leader of this ship, I missed all early warnings that were
saying, “Your community is not as happy as you think they are, you need to alter
course.” I was too focused on how great we are and how a small independent team
got their first game to over 700,000 users in a two-month period. Though that is
something to be very proud of, allowing that to overshadow the existing
community and their satisfaction was poor judgment.

I want to give you some insight into what our plans are for
the future, but before we get to that, I’d like to clear the air with you on several
important topics.

Community management and moderation – the problem

Even since the early Alpha launch, this game has always
cultivated a large and loyal player base that is very active in the game.
Again, thank you for this. Unfortunately, we weren’t prepared for this large
success and the way we managed the community was not the way it should’ve been.
We relied too much on forum moderators, whose primary role was to punish those
who break rules, not to engage the community and guide conversations into
productive discussions about problems. There wasn’t enough presence of the
development team on forums, there wasn’t enough updates on development of
UPCOMING features. We failed to communicate our position and messaging on the
outside platforms such as Facebook, twitter and various online websites, and
when we did this we chose to rely more on arrogance rather than being humble
and trying to understand why people were saying negative things. We chose to tune
out negative reactions to the game, not paying enough attention to them – and
this, again, is my fault. We chose to rely too much on numbers – percentage of
refund requests, number and dynamic of our daily and monthly active users, etc.
Well, in hindsight – those things probably work well for more casual games, but
the hardcore PC gaming community is much different and can be very vocal about
what they feel. Even when the percentage of players with negative comments is
small, as the community grows, even a small percentage can add up to be a very
significant absolute number. And it’s not just a number – those are real people
with real issues they are having with the game. OP Productions (publisher for
War Z) and me personally have failed to address those issues effectively.

Community management and moderation – the solution!

We’re changing our community management procedures and rules
right now. We’re going to reevaluate publishing and marketing team performance,
and I will make sure that Hammerpoint Interactive developers will have a much
stronger voice when it comes to community management and we won’t rely 100% on
OP Productions to single handedly handle this. Lots of changes will be
happening very fast in the weeks to come. One of the ideas that I proposed was
to select 10 players from around the world who can represent the player
community and invite them to our offices in Los Angeles, to meet the team,
check out what we’re doing, and share with actual developers their concerns,
wishes and thoughts on the game. We also will involve community, to a much
higher degree, in the process of making our next map for the War Z (called
“California”). We’ll be discussing many of the aspects of the map with you and
asking for feedback.

We’re revisiting our forum policies; we’re going to bring on
an additional community management team, additional moderators and we’ll train
them how to respond to things properly. There will still be restrictions on harassment,
trash talk, etc. But we’ll make sure that every opinion is heard. At the same
time, I must also be cautious: we cannot address all issues and there cannot be
only one voice. Please accept that. With hundreds of thousands of players playing,
talking, chatting, voicing their strong opinions, there will always be
diverging opinions. And some issues that are minor ones are sometimes brought
to light by very vocal channels. I would even say there is sometimes a
beginning of controversy because the game is now so popular. So there is
sometimes a distortion between the severity of the issue and the attention it
gets. But we will clearly implement steps to better listen to the community.

What is Foundation Release?

The most asked question of the last week was “is this the
final release?” My answer has always been that for an online game a “final”
release means that the game is dead – so there’s really no such thing, you never
stop developing, making changes to and adding new features to the game. This is
how we came to call the current version of The War Z “Foundation Release.” We
launched the Foundation Release on December 17, 2012 as our first-stage release
that we use as a foundation to build upon. It does include the core features
and a fully playable environment. This is our version 1.0, and of course we
will continue to improve that version as time goes on. Did we rush to get it
done? That is a tough question, but to answer honestly I think that we all pushed
very hard to be first to market and in time for the holidays. Our entire team
was working late, long hours to iron out issues and include as many features as
possible. This is part of the reality of being a smaller, independent game
developer. If we had a larger team and more funding we may have done
things differently, but I’m not sure. I don’t think it was a mistake because
our numbers have been strong since day one and, even with the recent
negativity, our metrics are really solid and we’ve been continuing to grow.
The negative opinions are always the most vocal, but most players are really
enjoying the game and we’ve been attracting more and more daily active players
every week. A lot of the gaming journalists that have been playing the game
have also given us some great feedback. I realize that we will take a few hits
from some of the traditional gaming press in terms of review scores, but I’m
hoping that even they will consider that this game is a living project that
will continue to evolve as time goes on. We are very proud of our Foundation
Release, and we do stand behind it like we have stood behind any previous
version.

What’s on the Horizon?

As for what will happen next with The War Z? We’re currently
evaluating the relationship between Hammerpoint and OP Productions. I firmly
believe that Hammerpoint should be playing a more prominent role in
publishing/game operating process. We’re in a process of adding new key members
to our team, bringing on guys who have much more experience operating and growing
successful online games and I know this is going to make a huge difference in
terms of development. We’ll be making some big decisions in terms of
leadership for both companies and I will personally change how I handle many
things. Above all we will continue to develop and make this game the best that
it can be.

I know that to some people my words won’t matter much. I
understand that. I hope that will change as we move forward and deliver the
features that our players have been waiting for. I can promise you that from
now on things will be much more transparent, and we’ll provide better communication
and engage our community to discuss upcoming features way before they appear in
the game.

I do believe that we aren’t even close to uncovering the
true potential for The War Z, and I hope that in the coming year, we’ll be able
to regain trust from people who were alienated by our actions and we’ll be able
to move forward and grow the game together.

Thank you for reading all this, thank you for supporting the
game and thank you for helping us to change and realize what’s important as
well as what is not.

I hope you are all having a happy holiday and I wish you the
best for the New Year!

Sincerely,

Sergey Titov

Executive Producer, The War Z

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Spielt es im jetz noch wer ?! Suche noch welche wo ich mit spielen kann .. alleine ist es ziehmlich nervig und langweilig dazu ..

Joa, zwischendurch mal.. hab insg 12h gespielt mittlerweile.
Bin vorhin aber getötet worden... mit 2 Waffen, viel Nahrung und Trinken... naja, hatte uach nurnoch 12% Gesundheit und hab vor mich hin geblutet -.-*. Ich find keine Verbände :/.