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DayZ: Dean Hall to Step Down as Lead Designer
SBFord
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Eurogamer is reporting that DayZ's Dean Hall is stepping down as the game's Lead Designer. According to the interview, Hall will be leaving Bohemia Interactive completely by the end of the year in order to set up his own studio in New Zealand.
"I am a grenade," he begun, this time sat in the DayZ office in central Prague. "I have a specific use. I'm really good at risk-taking and making other people take risks, I've always been good at that in my life. Like you say, maybe I've got the gift of the gab, so I can talk, I can explain something, I can talk people up to the ledge and get them to jump off it.
"That's what I did with DayZ; I've done it twice now [once with the mod, again with the standalone] - two new code teams have separately done it.
"But eventually, that's the bad person to have. Eventually, you don't want the guy telling you to go over the top and get through. So at some point I'll be a disaster for the project, at least in a leadership role.
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depends how many of the dev team he got to jump off i guess.
This is epic news for DayZ in the long run.
Kudos to Dean for doing what is best for the game and studio.
this is a prime example of why spending a box price on a product that is no where near box price ready is a risky thing and why i stay well away from it
but i am sure he is happy becoming very rich from a game he no longer has to do much with regardless of success or failure
and in his interview he already bashes DayZ saying it is "a fundamentally flawed concept"
anyone investing money in any of his future projects is crazy
What did you expect he's made a quick buck of a crap load of people including myself believing all the crap he spouted about this amazing game he was creating based on the MOD what we got was a shell of game that actually plays worse than the MOD. No he's jumping ship with his money and starting a new project that he will probably half finish too.
This guy and Peter Molyneux must of gone to the same school because they are both amazing at making shit sound like gold.
I am so glad I waited to buy this. This is one reason it is best to wait for a product and pass the hype!
Now I get to wait and see how it comes out and then make a better decision.
So like Dean I am out of here and will step back and see what becomes of it.
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Having worked with people of the same personality type before i have nothing but respect for his choice of path. All to often people overstay and things get very tense and quality drops. Not to mention that the number of conflicts tend to grow.
Going to be fun to see what he takes on next.
This have been a good conversation
Well at least it wasn't news the project was being sold to EA.
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Yep.
Maybe something will get done, and this might turn into an actual game.
How does he sound narcissistic when he is clearly stating he is a bad person to be in a leadership role?
Yes I agree this is bad. The Founder and Lead designer walks away after he has got all of us to buy his game. I think the main flaw here is in us, the gamers. We think these people are worth looking up to and investing in. When we should know that they are all in it for the $.
The Good News is that if thats what Dean was in it for then its best that he steps down and let some other idealistic designer step in until he succumbs to the all mighty dollar as well. Also Bohemian Interactive has some sort of control in this game as well. We all know they are a standup company and did a hell of a job on Arma 3. So maybe it isnt all bad news.
I take it that he only came to this personal insight AFTER he accepted the position and held it for a while ?
I suspect that he's realised that building a high quality standalone game is very different from slapping together a mod based on somebody-else's good game engine. It's probably too boring and slow for his liking. He's probably ALSO realised that if he sticks with it all the way to the end, the "survival game" craze may have burnt out (if it hasn't already). That would not be good for either his ego or his image, so he's quitting while he's ahead ?
very surprised, and frankly disappointed.
basically what he said is "i decided to take huge gambles on a whole bunch of crap that didn't work out like i had hoped. now this game is a mess and my co workers are all pissed at me for not listening to anyone, so i'm leaving and hopefully someone else can fix this crap for you".
Now, this wouldn't be a big problem if thousands of people didn't already buy this game, but they did. as it stands right now, whom ever allowed for alpha sales knowing full well what was going on is frankly a dishonest douche. Sorry for all those that bought the alpha.
has there been an official post about it? I usually do not take Eurogamer to seriously...... They wrote a complete review of Darkfall, but were called out by the devs. They checked how long they had been ingame.... it was a shocking 30 minutes!!!!!!
Still it is weird that the guy is working to make his vision becoming reality is leaving is own project.
and lemme guess what his first project wil be. a zombie shooter? ^^
after war-z and day-z we surely need another one!
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