Dean Hall to leave Bohemia Interactive at the end of the year and step down as leader of DayZ

[crimsonfate]

From Dean on Reddit:

To clarify a couple of important points:

I'm still the project lead of DayZ, and there are currently no plans I'm aware of to replace me in that role.

Ultimately, even if I did leave - DayZ belongs to Bohemia and there is a very large and ever-growing team of people working on it. While I appreciate the sentiment, It's rather insulting to them to suggest that without me the whole project would suddenly implode. The community, Bohemia, and myself have plenty of time to make plans for the long term development: but whatever happens I want to be back with my family in 2015.

Bohemia develop's and sells DayZ. I contracted to assist them with this process on a yearly basis. I certainly don't get all, most, or even the large share of sales money. That money goes to the studio which is used to fund development - as it should be. This is used to hire really skilled and awesome people - it's those people who develop the game and I've been working with those talented people to realize the vision.

I miss home, I want to return to New Zealand to be with my family after being away many years. It is my intention to do that next year, but I'm flexible. I said the same thing internally last year, this year I'm being more deliberate about it so everyone can plan for it.

I'm very critical of the work I do, I believe that's why I can do work that ends up quite successful. I'm very critical not just of the delivery of work I do but the base concepts behind them. I like to share and discuss those critiques because I think that makes me a better designer through the process.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1ysdow/dean_hall_to_leave_bohemia_and_step_down_as/cfnf7cp

Dean Hall intends to leave developer Bohemia and step down as leader of his hit video game DayZ by the end of the year, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal. The game he created will be left in the hands of the team he leads today.

Here is a link to the story: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-24-dean-hall-to-leave-bohemia-and-step-down-as-leader-of-dayz

[SnakeEyes]

Escrito originalmente por Cocainum:

Hopefully this will generate a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Steam will get raid of all these early crap scams

this

99% of early access games either run out of money and flop or are huge successes early on and flop because there is no motivation to finish/polish the product once they have everyone's money.

and as far as "hey don't worry 'bout nuthin this is standard operating procedure in the game world"..... bvllsh!t....

there is nothing about the entire DayZ project that is "standard". a "standalone" game that is 90% reused assets from another game and is still in early alpha and plays worse than the original mod after years of work is far from standard.

bottom line, Dean's "vision" for DayZ was too ambitious. instead of working on a few things and making them 100% viable in a massive online game, they decided to work on several different things and bring them all to about 50% functionality. now they are beginning to see that a lot of their initial promises are not viable. there will never be another map for players to travel to. there will never be 100 players on an official server. there will never be more than a handful of zombies per player per sever...

[Catatonic Twitch Streamer]

i recommend, wait a few months. then reclaim money and ♥♥♥♥ em up

[Kosmozuikis]

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Escrito originalmente por Syphess:

This is worrying, that he feels its appropriate to even announce that he is leaving at this stage. Also, that he will be leaving before the game is complete..

He's already said he's going to leave after development was completed on Reddit, Streams etc.

This is just the 'official' statement that he's making.

The game will be content complete when he leaves.

He says he leaves in 2014, and he said that game will not leave alpha in 2014, so no, he's not going to finish the game, he just grabbed the money and that's all. I feel sorry for all who bought this game.

[Artan]

Just read abput the article from Eurogamer as detailed on MCV:

https://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/dean-hall-to-leave-bohemia-and-dayz-development/0128573

This is going to cause a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That's a technical term.

[dja]

rip dayz

[Fabe]

Escrito originalmente por Cocainum:

Hopefully this will generate a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Steam will get raid of all these early crap scams

Your comments over the past months don't make you look smart at all

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I'm holding myself back trying not to reply to these idiots, I'm afraid if I do try this thread won't be nearly as entertaining. We have some real intellectual talent out here today. Posts that are almost entirely speculation or just plain ridiculous assumptions. My favorite are when people start using %s like they have scientific data to back up their random claims lol.

[graff]

Escrito originalmente por ФDeadEyeФ:

I'm holding myself back trying not to reply to these idiots, I'm afraid if I do try this thread won't be nearly as entertaining. We have some real intellectual talent out here today. Posts that are almost entirely speculation or just plain ridiculous assumptions. My favorite are when people start using %s like they have scientific data to back up their random claims lol.

It works everytime 60% of the time

[Zwut]

Escrito originalmente por Anal Sex Fiend:

Escrito originalmente por ФDeadEyeФ:

I'm holding myself back trying not to reply to these idiots, I'm afraid if I do try this thread won't be nearly as entertaining. We have some real intellectual talent out here today. Posts that are almost entirely speculation or just plain ridiculous assumptions. My favorite are when people start using %s like they have scientific data to back up their random claims lol.

It works everytime 60% of the time

+1 Studies shown

[Solarstrike]

Dear Bohemia,

Please release the mod files for DayZ stand alone right this minute on Steam so modders can finish the game. Let the modders out there have a go at the game. I'll guarantee you it would be the best thing that ever happened to DayZ since....well....ever since you purchased it from Dean Hall.

Thanks,
<3

[Fabe]

Escrito originalmente por ФDeadEyeФ:

I'm holding myself back trying not to reply to these idiots, I'm afraid if I do try this thread won't be nearly as entertaining. We have some real intellectual talent out here today. Posts that are almost entirely speculation or just plain ridiculous assumptions. My favorite are when people start using %s like they have scientific data to back up their random claims lol.

Most probably did not even read the whole article, i have to think so!

[graff]

Escrito originalmente por Fabe 3.3:

Escrito originalmente por ФDeadEyeФ:

I'm holding myself back trying not to reply to these idiots, I'm afraid if I do try this thread won't be nearly as entertaining. We have some real intellectual talent out here today. Posts that are almost entirely speculation or just plain ridiculous assumptions. My favorite are when people start using %s like they have scientific data to back up their random claims lol.

Most probably did not even read the whole article, i have to think so!

you have no comprhension

[Kosmozuikis]

Fanboys will defend the game anyway lol

[Wonno]

yes he did mention that : "I'm still working for another whole year, and more if needed. All I've said is that eventually, I want to do something else :)"

[Relnor]

Escrito originalmente por Solarstrike:

Dear Bohemia,

Please release the mod files for DayZ stand alone right this minute on Steam so modders can finish the game. Let the modders out there have a go at the game. I'll guarantee you it would be the best thing that ever happened to DayZ since....well....ever since you purchased it from Dean Hall.

Thanks,
<3

If you think progress on the SA is slow now, wait untill unpaid modders that work on these things as a hobby get a hold of it. Should be careful what you wish for.