NEWS: DayZ standalone - no longer a release window.

You heard me, DayZ standalone had several times a fixed release date but saw later on that there was no chance they could bring it to the table. After many failures in making it into the Alpha, developer Dean Hall feels bad for it.

But do not fear, they are still planning to finish their work, they just don't want to disappoint their loyal fans.

After he missed several of his own deadlines for releasing the alpha, Dean Hall regrets his mistakes by giving out release dates, he also said that they don't have any release dates internally anymore.

Dean Hall told Polygon, that he and his team are going to finish off the alpha, and once it's done, they will release the alpha. The list is down to a single check box: Networking.

Dean Hall also "rebooted" the game last year. "I took a bunch of massive risks. We realized we needed to redo everything and that didn't go over very well. In December we had nothing to show for it, nothing. it was very, very awful. our worst fears were realized."

Not only that, but in March, in his dark year, he started climbing Mount Everest. A bad timing. A bad timing indeed. But before that, Hall went to the CEO of Bohemia Interactive and told him he had thoughts of canceling the trip. "He told me, 'If you pause your life to work on DayZ, you're going to keep putting off everything,'" Hall said. "I'm glad i ended up doing it, but I still haven't had time to reflect."

 "The worst thing we could do would be to release too early. Flat out, that's the stupidest thing we could do. The alpha is going to be riddled with bugs, but the one thing I don't want it to be riddled with is terrible multiplayer, it's a multiplayer game." he concluded in a interview on gamescom.

Now the game is once more almost complete, so close to alpha. But when alpha is done, there will be beta to fix the game even more and finally.... The final game, finished. 

Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/22/4648082/dayz-alpha-no-longer-has-a-release-window-but-closes-in-on-launch

Truth be told in my opinion here, I believe that Dean Hall didn't really think how much work there is to make a whole new game, compared to his mod for ARMA II. Atleast he's honest about the troubles he has with the development of the game.

Take your time Dean Hall, your fans will wait for you. as long as you give them what they deserve, they will wait for you.

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