It's embarassing that they'd try to fleece people out of 45$ for this pile of Complete Ass. What a joke that they'd release 1.0 in this state, after removing seemingly everything that worked in builds 4-5 years older than the current one and replacing it with about 30% as much content that is somehow even more buggy than the previous pile of ass.

The fact that they'd have the balls to increase the price, and try to steal from unsuspecting consumers even more than they've already stolen is just despicable. How people can defend this game or the Devs in any fashion is astounding to me. The greatest value this game has given me is coming back to play for a few hours once a year or so, just to see the hilarious changes and choices the Devs have made.

Every change for the purpose of "Realism" seems to have added new levels of Tedium, while also reducing engagement with the world, and removing features altogether.

Edit: This game somehow got even worse since this review was posted.

Side note, the Facial hair in-Game is so painfully bad, I'm not one to complain about textures and the like, but my lord this is brutal, it looks like some shaved dog hair glued on to my characters face. How can it be possible to continually make your game worse in every way possible for years at a time?

I write this Review as I spend 24 minutes searching for and joining a server, an act that is generally done in seconds. How is it even possible to have a Server browser this terrible? It was never good, but it used to work fine enough. I just don't understand how a human being can be incompetent enough to produce a garbage fire like DayZ.

If you buy this game as it in 1.0 for this obscene price, you're a victim, and you should try and get help for what this game has done to you.