What actually happened to H1Z1?

[NameOf†hyFa†her]

What killed this game? I remember when people would fill the game and some of the best games of mine were spent here but it's not even a shadow of it's former self.

[North]

the devs did the exact opposite of what the players wanted, they ruined the gunplay, then tried to fix it by making it worse, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimization, skins no one cared about, better games ended up coming out and eventually the game died

the pre-hitmarker era of this game was by far the best, i wasnt a fan of the z2 map at first like most people but the map was good overall. the game was great about 4-7 years ago

[Sheen]

Toxic lobbies and high learning curve keep new players away aswell. People install thinking oooo free BR, must be fun, only to be sweated on by players with 1000s of hours in 10 man lobbies while being called dogsh*t. Doesnt motivate new ppl to keep playing.

This isn't a reason for the game dying, but it definitely keeps it from EVER making a full comeback. I've made my peace with the game. I hope Anarea blows up since it looks similiar but different, but I doubt it

[NuketroxZ]

Community killed the game

[washu73]

Bait and switch , I paid to play a PVE coop survival game, which this game offered when I paid for it, If I wanted a battle royale game I would have bought a battle royale game.

Now I am stuck with a game I won't play that I can't get a refund for because I technically played the game for too long for this to be allowable, even though the game I played has very little in common with this game aside from sharing art assets and a game engine.

[KING]

Originally posted by NuketroxZ:

Community killed the game

ahahaha - dev didn't do nothing for community - couse game drop dead .... deserved 10/10

[Also-Ran]

The game is dead because C.R.E.A.M.
Edit: and because the game is Unreal engine 3.... and not Unreal 4...
U3 is buggy and sucks on new PC's because it is old software, designed for OLD HARDWARE. The game would not be much more than what it was... Because of the game engine. Like Obi-Wan... U3 was "holding me back!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEm9Sc9_jis&feature=emb_logo

[Javichicle]

yeyeye

[Pharaoh]

Just play this game on august the 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ZBfIh-jMo

[Captain Pothead]

DayBroke it. What more needs to be said.

[Lt. McSuede]

the combat update is what ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the game. ever since they forcefully pushed it and rushed its mechanics to try to beat out the playerbase of PUBG, Daybreak didnt even fine tune anything when they released in in the summer of 2018. the Combat Update effectively and fully changed the mechanics of most weapons and added a new weapon which broke the meta, causing more people to leave. People were unhappy with all of the new changes and kept saying they would come back if they reverted the game to preseason three (old models, movement, graphics). Then Daybreak "responded" by reskinning their entire game to look more dull, gray and lifeless, and rework the actual BR system within the game. It was so bad, that the last community stream Daybreak held, their own devs didnt know what was going on within the game. Then daybreak fired its top OG devs, screwing over the last remaining hope for the game. By that point, people were done, and then the PC version of the game was bought out and turned into Z1BR, which gave the remaining players what they wanted (mostly), by reverting most of the game to preseason 4-3ish type gameplay (old movement and weapons styles but not gun models). But by that time it was way too late and there were only a few dozen serious players already moving on to other games like APEX or PUBG. Now, the PC game is completely abandoned, having been re-bought by daybreak from the company that made it into Z1BR, and they are only doing enough to keep the servers running for people to eventually log on, play one game, and get off seeing how dead their game is.

[h3llraizerr]

Originally posted by NuketroxZ:

Community killed the game

makes no sense.