So, I can't even play the game I paid for?

[Teal Quest]

..without some 3rd party program (battleye)? Seems like daylight robbery.

[Pacifist]

You cannot play on Battleye protected servers without battleye, an anti-cheat software.

[paradise]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

..without some 3rd party program (battleye)? Seems like daylight robbery.

Verify the game files, run it as admin, restart the PC. Sometimes battleye forgets to turn off and never installs

[Molly Magoo]

How is it daylight robbery? Battleye is needed, it helps legitimate players enjoy the game without having to worry about cheaters too much. The only people I have heard complaining about it are the ones who wish to cheat. I doubt that you are one of those people though as you didn't know what it was for.

[Teal Quest]

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

How is it daylight robbery? Battleye is needed, it helps legitimate players enjoy the game without having to worry about cheaters too much. The only people I have heard complaining about it are the ones who wish to cheat. I doubt that you are one of those people though as you didn't know what it was for.

It is some doubtful 3rd party program with no description other than: "We promise we dont spy on you".

And you know, all malware programs say that.

Am never instaling that sht. If it was really necessary Dayz should have it integrated into the game itself. But as it is now: "here's our game, thank you for your money, oh by the way 0 servers for you unless you wish to install this thing... use at your own risk."

This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ daylight robbery. I'd say even more, pretty sure that at the time of release (exactly on the first day, and this is when I bought the game) there was no battleye. Now I come back and see that I cant even play it

[Molly Magoo]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

How is it daylight robbery? Battleye is needed, it helps legitimate players enjoy the game without having to worry about cheaters too much. The only people I have heard complaining about it are the ones who wish to cheat. I doubt that you are one of those people though as you didn't know what it was for.

It is some doubtful 3rd party program with no description other than: "We promise we dont spy on you".

And you know, all malware programs say that.

Am never instaling that sht. If it was really necessary Dayz should have it integrated into the game itself. But as it is now: "here's our game, thank you for your money, oh by the way 0 servers for you unless you wish to install this thing... use at your own risk."

This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ daylight robbery. I'd say even more, pretty sure that at the time of release (exactly on the first day, and this is when I bought the game) there was no battleye. Now I come back and see that I cant even play it

Google Battleye, their website describes what they do. Thousands and thousands of ppl have downloaded it and not had any problems. Blame the hackers and cheats for us needing it, it's legit for heavens sake.

[Oleg Mongol]

I assure you, BattlEye is a perfectly legitimate software. Sounds like you're causing a fuss over nothing. You remind me of those people who refuse to give their ID to police officers just to start a fight.

Why don't you just get a refund if you're so paranoid about an anti-cheat that nobody has any problems with?

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

You have ARMA 2 so must have agreed to use it then if you played multiplayer? it is a safe program to agree to, they also use it on other games to protect against game cheats. check out www.battleye.com it explains more than we ever could! :o)

[Molly Magoo]

Originally posted by Zhivets:

I assure you, BattlEye is a perfectly legitimate software. Sounds like you're causing a fuss over nothing. You remind me of those people who refuse to give their ID to police officers just to start a fight.

Why don't you just get a refund if you're so paranoid about an anti-cheat that nobody has any problems with?

He can't get a refund, according to him he has had it since day one and has 28 hours on it, shame eh?

[[415]BlazeMcNight]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

How is it daylight robbery? Battleye is needed, it helps legitimate players enjoy the game without having to worry about cheaters too much. The only people I have heard complaining about it are the ones who wish to cheat. I doubt that you are one of those people though as you didn't know what it was for.

It is some doubtful 3rd party program with no description other than: "We promise we dont spy on you".

And you know, all malware programs say that.

Am never instaling that sht. If it was really necessary Dayz should have it integrated into the game itself. But as it is now: "here's our game, thank you for your money, oh by the way 0 servers for you unless you wish to install this thing... use at your own risk."

This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ daylight robbery. I'd say even more, pretty sure that at the time of release (exactly on the first day, and this is when I bought the game) there was no battleye. Now I come back and see that I cant even play it

Fun fact:

Games such as Ark, The Isle, Planetside 2 and H1Z1 (plus the Arma series & DayZ) all use Battleye. Why is that a fun fact? Because they are massive online games with probably close to a combined million player user base and they all are required to use Battleye.

Simply put, you're overreacting.

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

pretty sure that at the time of release (exactly on the first day,and this is when I bought the game) there was no battleye. Now I come back and see that I cant even play it

Yet the idea of Battleye and VAC being implemented for DayZ was widely discussed and, without outright saying "we will be using Battleye", it was fairly obvious.

[Teal Quest]

Originally posted by BlazeMcNight:

Fun fact:

Games such as Ark, The Isle, Planetside 2 and H1Z1 (plus the Arma series & DayZ) all use Battleye. Why is that a fun fact? Because they are massive online games with probably close to a combined million player user base and they all are required to use Battleye.

yeah and I guess all those people never had anything bad happening to their private data? Right, all documented.

Thanks, if I had any doubt in some shady bs going on, several random guys from the internet boosted my confidence and trust to shady programs... /sarcasm

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

He can't get a refund, according to him he has had it since day one and has 28 hours on it, shame eh?

you know there's a thing called rl, it kinda happens outside of internet (yes there is stuff outside)

I actually didnt want a refund, I like dayz and after 2 years I finally decided to play it, only to find out that I cant without some bs. Shame on devs for that really.

And what hackers have to do with it at all? Can't make a safe game? Yeah sure lets throw it all at our players, its gonna be their personal risk to use 3rd party programs, while we just grab their money...

[Molly Magoo]

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

He can't get a refund, according to him he has had it since day one and has 28 hours on it, shame eh?

you know there's a thing called rl, it kinda happens outside of internet (yes there is stuff outside)

I actually dont wont a refund, I like dayz and after 2 years I finally decided to play it, only to find out that I cant without some bs. Shame on devs for that really.

And what hackers have to do with it at all? Can't make a safe game? Yeah sure lets throw it all at our players, its gonna be their personal risk to use 3rd party programs, while we just grab their money... [/quote]

Ok, you made your point here on the discussion page. You choose not to download Battleye so you can't play DayZ or any of the other games that use it. Why not take it up with Battleye? I don't know what you hoped to gain from venting here, where everyone has downloaded it and had no problems. People who have had Battleye since it was implemented.

[Teal Quest]

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

Why not take it up with Battleye?

I thought I made this clear as well. I dont trust random 3rd party program, and a couple random internet guys won't change that.

What I hoped to hear is that its temporary measure. The game still in alpha, after all. Hoped to hear there's not gonna be any 3rd party bs later.

[Diawl]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

Why not take it up with Battleye?

I thought I made this clear as well. I dont trust random 3rd party program, and a couple random internet guys won't change that.

What I hoped to hear is that its temporary measure. The game still in alpha, after all. Hoped to hear there's not gonna be any 3rd party bs later.

Dude. Battleye is the primary anti-cheat service used by Bohemia for all of their games, as well as multiple other studios. You get third party software to fill certain utilities for almost everything these days. Do you use anti-virus software? Bam, third party software for protecting your PC where microsoft security doesn't hack it.
So either download it and stop being a crybaby (who seems to be suspiciously at odds with an ANTI-CHEAT piece of software, perhaps you wanted to indulge in a little scripting? Or perhaps you're just pirating it and got caught out) or say that it's not worth your time if you need Battleye. Because Battleye is not going anywhere.

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

Why not take it up with Battleye?

I thought I made this clear as well. I dont trust random 3rd party program, and a couple random internet guys won't change that.

What I hoped to hear is that its temporary measure. The game still in alpha, after all. Hoped to hear there's not gonna be any 3rd party bs later.

Please tell me your running windows 10 after all this??? oh and using google chrome?

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Teal Quest:

Originally posted by Molly Magoo:

Why not take it up with Battleye?

I thought I made this clear as well. I dont trust random 3rd party program, and a couple random internet guys won't change that.

What I hoped to hear is that its temporary measure. The game still in alpha, after all. Hoped to hear there's not gonna be any 3rd party bs later.

The measure would be to do some research before you trow your money at Steam.
Ignorance isn't a defense.