Demand Brian Hicks be Removed as Lead Developer of DayZ

Hello DayZ Community.

If you are reading this petition you are a fan of DayZ.

First, let me say that we all know Standalone is an Alpha. Things are going to break, malfunction, etc. We are aware of that and the community as a whole has been very patient when it comes to these problems. We meticulously post to the developer website so that Bohemia can have an army of testers and perfect this game more quickly. I love DayZ and I love the multitude of things you can do within the game.

Over the past few months we have seen roll out after roll out of incomplete, malfunctioning features to DayZ Standalone. Most recently, the .55 patch cause massive problems within the game causing droves of players to leave DayZ. The specific problem in this patch was the central loot economy which was woefully under tested. It became very apparent to the community that the loot was not spawning correctly and many, many people took to the developer board and Brian Hick’s twitter to report the problem. Brian Hicks dismissed all of our complaints indicating that it was by design and that it was supposed to be harder. He indicated that tweaks would still be needed but people essentially needed to deal with it. Many players advised him that he was incorrect and that litteraly nothing was spawning in some cases. After a week of constant complaints and hundreds of players leaving the game he finally relented, admitted they had a problem and he and Eugene rolled back the patch.

We as a community don’t have a problem with an Alpha game not being compete. We have a problem with developers dismissing us and not fulfilling their promosies. We have posts on the developer boards of problems within the game that have been posted for literally months without 1 comment from a developer. We have issues within the game that have been present for months going on a year and I think a lot of us are sick of it.

When we make our complaints known to Brian Hicks he just dismisses us (rather rudely I might add) on his twitter. It’s clear that Brian Hicks can’t handle the development of the game and is running it into the ground.

I am calling on Bohemia to remove Brian as lead developer and get this game back on track.