People can finally play DayZ’s standalone alpha en masse, and so they have. As of Bohemia’s last count, the still ultra-buggy alpha had fallen into the ravenous hands of 875,000 players, which totals out to 8,750,000 fingers. Even rockstars who crowdsurf at every show can’t boast that. Despite that, the newly reborn undead survivor isn’t even close to finished – or out of alpha, for that matter. Keeping in line with the game’s appropriately shambly development cycle, DayZ’s beta won’t even kick off until the end of 2014. Don’t expect to see this one in any state resembling “finished” for quite some time yet.
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