H1Z1 Going Free-to-Play Won t Save It

H1Z1 began as a Sony Online Entertainment clone of the at-the-time popular DayZ - a game that itself began as a mod for ARMA 2 but that found itself as a real standalone title before it was abandoned by its player base and never really finished. H1Z1 was a similar survival-based zombie game, launched in early access three years ago at the beginning of 2015 during a time when Daybreak Games acquired Sony Online Entertainment's titles/ass


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But that didn't work to rescue H1Z1 from its low player counts and low interest, so the next step - just a week after launching in full - is Daybreak maing H1Z1 free-to-play just like Fortnite as of today. Players who purchased the game in early access get more than a t-shirt now, they also get an "H1Z1 Appreciation Pack", containing the following it


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By all accounts, it's a rather fun mode even if it's drastically different and feels like a last-ditch effort/gimmick to regain some traction. On its launch, Daybreak sponsored top streamer Dr. Disrespect to play the game for the day but within a day or two, H1Z1 was nowhere to be seen on Twitch. The full launch a week ago added these updates as w


Another year later, early 2017, and H1Z1: King of the Kill is a force to be reckoned with. It topped the charts of Twitch.tv, was popular among YouTubers and peaked at over 100,000 concurrent players. It was a game-changer, and one that helped skyrocket the idea of battle royale gameplay, allowing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to come in and rather quickly take over the market. Streamers began moving over, leaving H1Z1 for the more "realistic" PUBG . PUBG was the new hotness, its creator having a hand in both games. Not long later, Epic Games (the makers of the game engine that PUBG uses) stole their idea and added a free-to-play battle royale mode themselves to fledgling Fortnite and made it available on not just PC, but PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well. Again, for fr