In a post on Reddit yesterday, Sony CEO John Smedley revealed H1Z1, a new free-to-play zombie MMO. He was also a guest on Gametalk Live, where he revealed more about the game including the news that it will be available in just 4-6 weeks through Steam Early Access
SOE's president John Smedley has taken to Reddit once more, this time to discuss the studio's monetisation plans for their recently announced zombie sandbox MMO, H1Z1.
Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled their H1Z1 zombie MMO, but isn't it treading on DayZ's undead toes? Yes and no, says John Smedley. This is SOE's 'take' on the zombie doomsday scenario. However they'll be using Planetside 2's engine tech to power H1Z1, meaning they can flood whole areas with zombies for epic scaled battles against player strongholds.
How will Sony Online Entertainment be extracting monies from us with their new zombie apocalypse MMO H1Z1? They'll be leveraging the power of 'wearables', because gamers just can't say no to novelty hats. Their current "pretty awesome idea" is to have wearables lootable by others, where they then get to wear them "for a few deaths." The original owner doesn't lose items.
Sony Online Entertainment have put an off little teaser up on the official H1Z1 website. Entering the famous Konami code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B) on the main screen results in a pixellated image pop-up and a new trailer for the zombie MMO.
Sony Online Entertainment has released the first gameplay trailer for upcoming zombie MMO H1Z1. I don't think it'll come as much of a surprise to say that there's a lot of DayZ in there.
An alpha-build trailer for MMO zombie game H1Z1 has been shown off at E3, showing footage of various unfortunate zombies being burned, stabbed and bonked in the head. Yeah, I'm hoping they fix those ragdoll physics up too. H1Z1 was originally intended to receive a Steam Early Access release last month, but for some reason it's been pushed back by developers SOE.