Watchsurvival Updates! Games Added: Survivor FPS, The War Z Name Change, Starbound, Rust, Stranded 3,

Hey everyone!  Decided today was the day I had some time to do some updating.  I've updated according to most comments and suggestions and a few of my own additions as well.  Going to use this post as well to round up everyone's comments and add my own.

Q: "Awesome blog! I've been following it for a few weeks now, great stuff! Have you heard of the game called Survivor FPS?"

A:  I have now!  Thanks for letting me know I have updated the games list.  

Q: "Hello friend! Here is a few games I thought you should add

Left 4 dead

Left 4 dead 2

Dead Island Riptide"

A: Sorry but I do not feel those games meet Watchsurvival's requirements. Please read the requirements on the survival games list page

Q: "The War Z changed there name to "Infestation:Survivor Stories" So you should change that."

A:  Done.  I've updated the websites for that section.  

Q: " Check out this game: Rust"

A:  Cool find!  Added to the games list.   

Q: " Zargo, The Survivor Zero link is to an unused domain now! Not sure what is happening with it! 

A: Strange Indeed! I'm not sure what went on there but I did find a new website location to follow development and updated Survivor Zero to go to that link instead for the time being.  Thanks for the heads up. 

Q: Stranded 3 is now in development

A:  Nice eye!  I"ve added Stranded 3 development blog to the games list for now. 

The War Z preview from mmorpg.com

Hey guys/girls!  I found a small preview of the War Z on mmorpg.com that talks about some pretty cool things.  You can find the preview at the link below, check it out.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/856/feature/6757/The-War-Z.html

The WarZ Gameplay videos

A few videos are roaming around the internet for The Warz showing off some gameplay footage. I thought I'd post them here and let you guys check them out.  I'm honestly trying to hold my judgement for this game off until I actually get to play it myself, but truth be told these videos didn't impress me much and being a dayz player I see a lot of things that just seem like blatant ripping off of Dayz and it seems like they are just trying to cash in on Dayz's current success.  I'll hopefully get into the beta and get to play the game firsthand myself and decide then if I'm going to like it or not. As it stands and from what I've seen, my money will most likely go to Dayz the Stand-alone game before I purchase this title.  It's giving me bad vibes. The developer is giving me bad vibes  The ripping off of Dayz and trying to cash in on it's success is giving me bad vibes.  I'm trying not to hate it before I play it but it's not off to a great start.  I'm hoping it kicks a lot of butt and will totally turn my view around but only time and actually playing the game will tell.  Here's hoping they prove me wrong and make me eat my words after playing it. anyways on to the videos.

The WarZ beta access and concerns.

The Warz, supposedly the first MMO of the Zombie survival genre is getting a lot of hype all around the web currently. I thought I'd chime in here and Let everyone know that beta sign ups to check the game out are still currently being listed.

http://thewarz.com/preorder.html

While it could be the greatest thing since sliced bread for the survival nuts like myself. I do have some concerns for the game at this time.

1. The game is being spouted as an MMO with missions/quests/objectives whatever you want to call them. This makes me wonder how much the seriousness of the survival aspect is going to be and if the game isn't just trying to be Yet another MMORPG with Zombies tac'd onto it.  We honestly have done the MMORPG thing to death this decade and it's kinda getting dug into a deeper and deeper grave as more companies try to cash in on the cash cow of MMOS and spit out poor excuses for a game just to make money.

2. The game has a gold coin currency system.  Thats right a game set to be about a zombie apocalypse in the current world's future is going to have vendors and gold currency that players may use to buy and sell goods with vendors and players.  This type of genre and timeline with a gold coin currency system worries me because it makes me just question "why?"  If I was in a current zombie apocalypse  and I found an extra gun I didn't need, wouldn't I want to trade that gun for food or ammo for my other gun or maybe batteries for my flashlight or something?  Why gold of all things? Aren't gold coins more for the Dungeons and Dragons style games with wizards and such?  I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a zombie apocalypse having a form of currency at all.  Trading should be what it's about.

3.  It will have a micro-transaction shop.    Yea I know right? a game focused on surviving and looting items to survive is gonna let you pull out that wallet and make things Materialize into the game world.  While I know they need to pay for the game and updates and servers ect somehow I feel there is much better ways of going about it then this way. Which IMHO completely breaks immersion of the world and leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.   Starving to death?  No worries just insert your credit card and pay 2.99 for that virtual can of beans that will materialize on your character and save their life.    They have already stated that they will be selling things like improved health packs and the like. This is a really bad idea for this kind of game and with a game as WarZ that has such huge potential for the fans they are trying to grab they should understand they are not going to like this model.  Materializing items into a world that is no doubt survival and loot based is a really bad idea.

This game has potential to be great but these key issues to hold it back, but we shall see as beta comes out and more info comes trickling down the lane for us to see and play.