As it seems multiple people are throwing around the idea of playing War Z, I'd like to throw together an information thread regarding things we need to know.
If you have things to add, post them.
I'd like to discuss what people think on various topics within War Z.
To start with, here is a quote from Sergey from the forums that really is turning me off.
Main difference between two modes comes at how death of the character is handled. In both modes when you die, you lose your backpack. But in case of Hardcore mode your death will be also permanent for your character - ie character with all of his stats, etc will be deleted. You'll have to create new character and start from the beginning - spawning at initial zones, with all skills/trainings gone, etc.
Normal characters on other hand will be just put into "lockdown" for certain period of time - we're testing how long it'll be, for now that time is set to 24 hours of real world time. Once "revived" your character will be able to continue to play from approximately same location where he died, all hist skills/stats will remain same.
Bold part of particular interest.
Now, as I understand it, we will be able to have multiple characters, how many is unknown. So I die, I can't use my character again for 24 hours from that point in time. It's a pretty big deal, but hey, I'll go use this other character.
Where it gets tricky is how many characters can we create?
The problem I see is that death will cause MANY people to stop playing the game. Why? Simple. As we don't know how many characters to can create, we know for a fact that it isn't infinite, you can only have so many at any given time. When you switch characters after your death, a bug or random glitch kills it. You switch to another, some douche bag kills you at spawn. You switch to another, something happens and you're dead.
Then all of your characters are dead and on a 24 hour "lock down." Now you effectively cannot play War Z for 24 hours from the time the first character died.
How is this a business model? This sounds insanely stupid to me.