Zombie MMO The War Z removed from Steam, accused of fraud

December 20, 2012

The premise is a good one, if a little familiar: you're randomly thrown into the wilderness with nothing but a flashlight, a granola bar and your wits. Survive the zombie apocalypse. However, it isn't zombies that developer Hammerpoint Interactive needs to worry about; they need to fear their players. I got a special hands-on with The War Z a couple months ago, and despite some obvious alpha game bugs, it looked pretty good. From what I heard from Executive Producer Sergey Titov, it was going to be awesome; a skill tree to build a character, socializing with other survivors in public safe areas, and microtransactions for cosmetic upgrades to clothes and weapons. Unfortunately, it's hit some serious snags. The War Z has had some problems prior to release. Kotaku reported that nearly 3,000 people were banned without any reason, and many more were banned from The War Z's message boards due to a rather heavy-handed rules list (including barring posts that state why you quit playing). Despite the hiccups and bad press, The War Z was released on Monday on Steam to the surprise of everyone. Rumors have circulated that The War Z was aggressively pushed out to beat the standalone version of DayZ (which gained popularity after becoming a mod for Arma II last spring) to market. The War Z quickly climbe donto the Steam Top Sellers list, but the exposure did more harm than good, because it seems the game developers listed a ton of features on the Steam page for The War Z that simply didn't exist. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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