Earlier this month the price for early access to the game went up to $35, an announcement that angered players. He's left the developer Bohemia Interactive entirely, returning to his native New Zealand to open his own studio. In February Hall announced that he would be stepping down as lead developer on DayZ. The DayZ team enters 2015 in a precarious position. 'I think it's still just not at that point. 'I think if you have to ask the answer is don't buy it,' Hall told Polygon in June. Sales of 200,000 units a month, for a game that isn't finished People keep buying the game, even with Hall telling them not to. That's 200,000 copies a month for a game that isn't finished, a game that some might say is only just barely playable.ĭayZ seems to have a momentum of its own. The successor to the wildly popular Arma 2 mod sold two million copies by May of the this year. One year ago last week, early access to the standalone version of DayZ went on sale. Polygon reached out to Bohemia Interactive public relations' Matt Lightfoot via email to learn more about the state of affairs in zombie-infested Chernarus.

After selling millions of copies of an unfinished game how does it keep its fans motivated to see development through to the end? And now that the creator of the game, Dean Hall, is leaving to form his own studio how does the team left behind keep its momentum going? As the multiplayer zombie survival game DayZ enters its second full year in Steam's Early Access program, the team behind it faces a number of challenges.

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