I took a look at The War Z forums and apparently now Hammerpoint has their players paying $65.00 per month for a 30 player private server.  Either that or stay on the public servers at the mercy of rampant hackers and exploiters, as if that is Hammerpoint's own tactic - get the players to play on private servers and pay for it - a lot.  

$65.00 per month? As this is not the mid 2000s, these are most likely virtual machines, many many many running on a single server, and not new additional hardware.    Wow, Hammerpoint has their herd of gullable players and fully intends to milk them dry until finally the players catch a wiff of sanity and gtfo.  

so, whats this review good for? feed the trolls?

uh and maybe you should concider buying a new pc if your load is that bad ^^

"The War Z is a game that is known to many in the MMO-space, more for its notoriety than for its gameplay. We aim to change that in our latest review."

Didnt do a very good job at changing my opinion on this game when you gave it a 1.7/10 lol.

Good Honest review here.

take it from one who bought into the alpha - only to be burned.

Also very glad to see everybody knows this is NOT DayZ Standalone.

Can see the bias, anger or possibly even other agendas all over this review. I would completely agree on a few (low) points but giving the low scores everywhere, and knowing shittier carbon copyes of certain games  got higher scores in the past, tells me this is a very subjective review which in turn i find pretty shitty - the review that is.

At this point the only thing why I would suggest not to give WarZ a go is cheating/hacking. But cheaters are plentiful in DayZ as well and the only thing WarZ is missing are vehicles and swimming in water. Other than that it's very very playable and in 20 hours or so that I've played I hardly noticed any bug and enjoyed it quite a lot. Compared to DayZ which I've quit solely due to being so extremely buggy that I decided it's not worth my time.

So untill DayZ standalone gets out which hopefuly will trump both (probably not, not at beginning at least), WarZ > DayZ mod

The writer also decides to ignore the point that this kind of games are niche and that there are people who love dangerous worlds where any stranger is a potential threat. All in all this unprofessional review reminds me why mmorpg.com has such a low rep amongst big part of gamers.

 I agree with the review, but I also agree there is clear bias towards DayZ present. They are both equally bad games, why either of them has been given the support they have is beyond me. Perfect example of the "Indie effect" : PoS product and people lap it up.

The very few people who actually try and defend this turd are funny.

This game is crap. It is a ripoff of other games and is charging people money for an incomplete, unfinished product.

And please, stop comparing it to the DayZ. That, at this point in time , is a free mod. The DayZ is not charging anyone any money. When the standalone gets released then a comparison is warranted.

I do not play the DayZ either.

This score is completely deserved.

after this review im never going to take www.mmorpg.com review seriously .

bad f2p asian never get lower that 6 , in fact you have never give anything even the worst game ever something lower that 5 i think .

but you give BAD game high review alot of the time ( im guessing they give big money for that )

and you will make me think this game deserve a 1.2 ?? even if that true , you just TRASHTALK

this game review into the ground , that in no way a professional review . to me you just look like a angry kids who want to trashtalk about a game he dislike .....

i have play this warz game and i agree that TOTALY A REALY BAD GAME and probably deserve a realy low scores , but the problem that because you NEVER give real review and fair review in mmorpg.com website .

for resume , dont realy take mmorpg.com review seriously . someone here probably never got the money he deserved for make the review.... LOL .

I actully like WarZ lol, playing on my communities RP server and it's great fun lol, wouldn't touch public servers with a barge pole though, but i understand the hate for the game but a score of 1 is a bit harsh, DayZ standalone will be better and the only problem i have with warz/dayz is the meta/end game is lacking a bit.

TBH i think State of Decay will be the one to actully get the zombie mmo right.

Originally posted by Bcuda

The score for this game should have been lower... What did war Z get a point for have the game load?

 

1 point for the controls working lol

BUT

Giving a 1,7 and at the same time suggesting to viewers to purchase DayZ insted..that is biased as hell...

And even the beginning of the review was giving us a hinch of what was gonna happen...A delibirate ''kill' of a BAD indie game...

***I trully believe the game is bad as hell and I DO suggest people getting DAYZ instead..But i m not the one reviewing the game and pretending to be objective...

People talk all the time about hor crappy a game like GW2, WoW, Tera, Age of Wushu, or FFXIV is but those are just people dissapointed or not liking certain aspects of those games.  The thing is those other games are actually good in their own rights even if you do not believe the game is for. 

Now WarZ is in a class in and of itself, it truely is the most horrible game in all existence I wish people who knock any other game including those games coming soon that are popular on this sight would actually play a game that sucked rather then bash a game they dont agree with.

Originally posted by pupurun

Originally posted by nttajira

after this review im never going to take www.mmorpg.com review seriously .

bad f2p asian never get lower that 6 , in fact you have never give anything even the worst game ever something lower that 5 i think .

but you give BAD game high review alot of the time ( im guessing they give big money for that )

and you will make me think this game deserve a 1.2 ?? even if that true , you just TRASHTALK

this game review into the ground , that in no way a professional review . to me you just look like a angry kids who want to trashtalk about a game he dislike .....

i have play this warz game and i agree that TOTALY A REALY BAD GAME and probably deserve a realy low scores , but the problem that because you NEVER give real review and fair review in mmorpg.com website .

for resume , dont realy take mmorpg.com review seriously . someone here probably never got the money he deserved for make the review.... LOI ll have to agree with you...YES the game is bad...and YES it should evenn have the lowest score from all games ever reviewed..So this means it should get a 3,5 - 5..And still we'd be saying about how fair the review is...

BUT

Giving a 1,7 and at the same time suggesting to viewers to purchase DayZ insted..that is biased as hell...

And even the beginning of the review was giving us a hinch of what was gonna happen...A delibirate ''kill' of a BAD indie game...

***I trully believe the game is bad as hell and I DO suggest people getting DAYZ instead..But i m not the one reviewing the game and pretending to be objective...

I like bit buts and I cannot lie, but yours was looking rather spurious.  

am  i the only one who thought warZ had shutdown??? not that i was hoping or anything for hammerpoint to dry up.... but the game just screams garbage. given the claims of lengthy development the graphics do not mesh well with that at all.  it litterally screams cash grab :/ which is sad for the simple fact there really arent that many fps zombie shooter survival games or atleast decent ones to play. 

that being said.. i wouldnt touch dayz either least until its a standalone. as i dont see any point in buying a game just for A mod. you are wasting money if you dont want to play arma as well.  be like buying WoW just to play warcraft... totally pointless if you didnt want to play both :/ besides dayz is also plagued by cheats as well.. like every fps on the planet, i think warz gets a badrap on that do to the smaller map sizes comparied to say BF or cod where you have better options to avoid people.

that being said.. 1.7 is fking funny as hell havent seen points like that since some of the earlier game debackles of betas that just vanished. sad that the game is so bad.. but honestly i played warinc any LP of warz just shows the same exact problems warinc has :/ so never turned my crank to play warz

Originally posted by Ichmen

am  i the only one who thought warZ had shutdown??? not that i was hoping or anything for hammerpoint to dry up.... but the game just screams garbage. given the claims of lengthy development the graphics do not mesh well with that at all.  it litterally screams cash grab :/ which is sad for the simple fact there really arent that many fps zombie shooter survival games or atleast decent ones to play. 

that being said.. i wouldnt touch dayz either least until its a standalone. as i dont see any point in buying a game just for A mod. you are wasting money if you dont want to play arma as well.  be like buying WoW just to play warcraft... totally pointless if you didnt want to play both :/ besides dayz is also plagued by cheats as well.. like every fps on the planet, i think warz gets a badrap on that do to the smaller map sizes comparied to say BF or cod where you have better options to avoid people.

that being said.. 1.7 is fking funny as hell havent seen points like that since some of the earlier game debackles of betas that just vanished. sad that the game is so bad.. but honestly i played warinc any LP of warz just shows the same exact problems warinc has :/ so never turned my crank to play warz

I thought they were aiming for pre-release cash and running for the hills.  Awful company, pure scam, goodbye.