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Z1 Battle Royale Gets Another Boost
Daybreak Game Company Announces Franchise First, Studio Spinoffs
Remember last year when we talked about how Daybreak would likely be splitting off its properties into separate studios? They’ve done that. Daybreak today announced its “Franchise First” initiative, establishing three new studios; Dimensional Ink Games, Darkpaw Games and Rogue Planet Games. Dimensional Ink will be captained by Jack Emmert and continue work on DC Universe Online, Darkpaw Games of course will handle the Everquest titles and be helmed by MMO Fallout patron saint Holly Longdale, and finally Rogue Planet Games will have control over Planetside 2 under Andy Sites.
“By allowing the identities of each of these studios to thrive under their individual studios, each team will have the flexibility to continue their work developing current and upcoming games, recruiting new talent and building upon the legacy of their respective franchises.”
The news gives a little tease into what Daybreak has been working on, as Dimensional Ink Games is working on a high profile action MMO starting this year, Darkpaw has something in the works, and Rogue Planet is working on a “genre-defining” game for fans of shooters. Marvel MMO, Everquest 3, and Planetside 3 when? Only time will tell.
Notably absent from this announcement is H1Z1 or Z1 Battle Royale.
In A Christmas Miracle: Z1 Battle Royale Population Spikes
In a post-Christmas miracle, Z1 Battle Royale has received the breath of life from…someone somewhere. At least it’s a lot more lively than it has been.
Z1BR’s death has been slow cooking in the crockpot of Steam’s lavatory for the last seven months or so, so it’s all the more surprising that the last few days have seen the population spike. Insanely spike. I’m talking hitting peaks of nearly six thousand concurrent players if you bothered to read the header image in this article. All this from a game that wasn’t . What gives?
A tournament. With Twitch streamers.
This Friday (1/17), a tournament is going to take part in H1Z1 with a lot of the big streamers from back in H1Z1’s heyday…except Ninja. The attention of streamers has brought people back into the game to take part in the scrimmages that have been going on this week, and it has breathed a bit of life back into the mostly dead title.
Will Z1 hold its traffic up after the tournament is over? Only time will tell.
Source: Steam Charts,
Daybreak Laid Off More People
Daybreak Game Company may be currently best known for their string of layoffs, and it appears that the pendulum is coming around again for another swipe.
The folks over at Massively OP noticed that multiple developers on the PC version of H1Z1, known lovingly as Z1 Battle Royale, are no longer with Daybreak and NantG. This includes Z1’s lead game designer who posted about the layoffs just a few hours ago. Massively OP was able to confirm via Twitter that Z1’s combat designer was also laid off, as well as the community representative.
Got laid off by NantG. Will write a tweet longer soon. We tried very hard to make it work and I couldn’t be more happier and proud of the people we worked with trying to make this happen. Love you all ❤ H1 community will always be in my heart just like Planetside will.
— Arclegger (@Arclegger) April 4, 2019
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The move comes not even a week after NantG posted an announcement on its Twitter account that they are in planning mode and “discussing many things.”
The team is currently in planning mode discussing many things. For everyone that has been asking about Ranked Pro and showdown qualifiers we wanted to let you know that we will have more to share on that Tuesday.
— Z1BR (@Z1BattleRoyale) March 31, 2019
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Neither the Daybreak Game Company or NantG Mobile have made an official statement. Perhaps ironically, Z1 Battle Royale has experienced a notable increase in players following a massive decline over the past year.
Source: MassivelyOP
Z1 Battle Royale: We Ban By Hardware ID, and Hardware ID Scramblers
Z1 Battle Royale has been on a warpath since being taken over by NantG Mobile, and Jace Hall wants everyone to know that the company is taking cheating very seriously. In a post on Twitter, Hall noted that over 800 accounts were banned on December 7 alone with plenty more to come.
In response to another user’s question about cheaters coming back, Anthony Castoro responded that the company implements hardware ID bans as well as bans on HWID scramblers.
We do HWID bans. And we ban HWID scramblers. We also ban by IP, but you have to becareful with that because most people are on DHCP.
— Anthony Castoro (@CastoroGamer) December 9, 2018
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Source: Twitter
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