When new games are released, the gaming world takes a look at them and decides whether or not they will be worth playing. In a matter of a couple of days there are thousands of reviews posted online for any game title that you are willing to take the time to look up. One of the latest games that was made available last week as a Steam Early Access game is H1Z1. The game is going to give you an insight into how to survive the zombie apocalypse that everyone thinks is coming.
Even though new games are generally fun to play, the game has caused a little bit of an uproar and forced Sony Computer Entertainment to issue some refunds. The game was just released to the public from the beta stages and so far, it has not been a very smooth start. Just like most of the other massively multi-player online games, servers are crashed with gamers wanting to play, bugs are found very quickly and the support emails start to pile up right away.
If you have ever been a part of a beta game release, then you know that bugs are a part of the game. Developers use the test stages to try and see if the servers can handle the influx of gamers, as well as to make sure that all of the gameplay features work properly. Those that want the game plop down about $15 and when the game is not ready to play when it goes public, people have an invested right to complain. Overall, H1Z1 is going to be a “free-to-play” game and that is just going to bring even more players to the servers.
As soon as players got into the game, they noticed that there were little teases for spending more money. Micro-transactions was the term that one source used and explained that ammunition and guns that were parachuted in were not free to use as the information about the game had mentioned last year. Sony Computer Entertainment wanted to do good and said that if anyone feels duped by the game, they can get refunds issued, but the deal was not going to last forever.
Sony has taken some time to figure out the issues that gamers were complaining about and have issued patches to cover them already. The “airdrop 2.0” patch is already online and there will be more servers for those of you that are playing in Europe at some point this week.