That’s right. Perhaps the most controversial game of 2012, The War Z has returned to Steam after it was
removed by Valve when fans realized it didn’t have the features it promised. Two months later and like a particularly feisty zombie, it’s back and hungry for your brains — err, money. If you’ve been waiting for The War Z, it’s patched and ready for you. Before you get your wallet out, you should know it’s awful.
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Apparently, a public apology wasn’t enough to remedy the situation with the controversial post-apocalyptic MMO The War Z. Kewk, Hammerpoint’s community manager, took to the forums to update their players on the situation, saying “over the last few days we have been under attack by various forums of malicious attempts to shut down our servers. First we were hit with an attack that would rest our DNS IP so that you could not connect.” They were attacked again today, “This morning we are being hit, again, with a DDOS attack on our login server. We are implementing additional DDoS protection and hope to have this resolved asap.” Kewk added.
The servers are back up now and are hopefully safe from further attacks. The War Z may have been one of the more controversial games of the year, but that doesn’t give anyone the right to do something this. Hammerpoint’s handling of the game’s launch was misguided, but this also punishes the players who, because of these attacks, weren’t able to play the game.
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The rocky launch of The War Z was one of the uglier stories of 2012, and Sergey Titov, the game’s executive producer, seems to have been humbled by it. Titov recently took to the game’s forum to thank everyone who played it and apologize to those who weren’t too happy with it. “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.” Titov wrote. Read the full apology after the break.
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This hasn’t been an easy week for Hammerpoint Interactive or their post-apocalyptic MMO, The War Z. First, the dev was called out by fans who found several fibs in their description of the game on Steam, then just as it reached the top of the Steam charts, a pay to revive feature was implemented in a patch. Now, Valve has temporarily pulled the game from Steam so they can work with the dev on getting a build they’re more confident in. If you purchased The War Z and aren’t satisfied, feel free to get a refund.
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If Hammerpoint is aiming for the shadiest launch week, they’re doing a bang up job of it. Not long after a group of players took to Reddit to vent their frustration toward the developer after they posted a misleading list of features for the Steam version of the game, now the dev has slipped in some suspicious microtransactions in the latest patch. The game recently reached the top of the Steam charts, undoubtedly fueled by its low price and abundance of buzz. Unfortunately, that buzz is quickly turning negative.
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Gamers sure are a vocal bunch. Good thing too, because this time around a group of players have found developer Hammerpoint Interactive’s description of the Steam version of The War Z to be more than a little deceitful. Yesterday, the game made its way to Steam, and it looks like the dev might have fibbed in the features they said would be in the Steam version, leading several players to go so far as to request its removal from Steam. More after the break.
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