Get DayZ on Steam

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | February 21, 2013 7:55 am

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Bohemia Interactive offers DayZ on Steam.

As of this morning, gamers can now pick up DayZ on Steam. Bohemia Interactive offers the mod as a free download on its own — for players who already own ARMA II: Combined Operations — or as part of a package. The package will set players back $25 and includes the DayZ mod along with ARMA II and ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead.

The benefits of Steam?

While DayZ is one of those games that I tend to end up believing everyone who wants to play it must have it by now, it is possible that adding the mod to Steam will make it more appealing to some people. For one thing, many players associate a certain amount of set-up difficulty with any mod which will make them avoid bothering with it. Making the mod installable with the click of a button in Steam takes away this entry barrier.

On a personal note, just being able to have a game available in my Steam library no matter what computer I’m on makes me even more likely to spend money on it. The ease of just turning on Steam and clicking install has spoiled me a bit.

I will be interested to see how many new players will be introduced to DayZ by it being made available on Steam. I also wonder if a “successful” amount of downloads for the mod will result in us seeing more mods made directly available this way.

If you’re one of those people who have not picked up the game already, do you think you’ll get DayZ on Steam? Or, are you waiting for the standalone to come out — or just hate zombie games and want nothing to do with it?

For more DayZ news, be sure to check back regularly. Or tune in to This Week in MMO — where we sometimes talk about the game.

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boarderdog

I’m one of the holdouts on DayZ. I’m interested in it, I just can’t bring myself to spending 25 bucks on a game just so I can play a free mod.

I’ll wait for the stand alone or a sale on steam before give it a try
zilvis78

Standalone here, I totally enjoy watching streamers play it but i’d rather play a more polished product then what i’ve seen so far,looks fun to watch so-so to play at it’s current incarnation.
- DoctorOverlord
  
  Same here. I would think the stand-alone would be more polished.
Suicideking666

I like the fact that it’s available on Steam and all, but unless they add a proper server browser then I’ll stick to DayZ Commander. It just makes it a lot easier to be able to roll back patches to play on a server that hasn’t updated yet or isn’t going to update because a patch is bad.
http://twitter.com/Critzkreig Cody Moody

Just to be sure no one complains – they aren’t charging for the mod itself. They are selling you the games needed to play it and adding the installation into the steam UI. This is NOT a WarZ “charging you for broken shit” thing.