DayZ Bounty System to Give You Real World Cash for Killing Zombies

[Shawn Zipay]

Word from PC Gamer says that the team behind DayZ are planning on creating a DayZ Bounty which will reward players who excel at playing the game.

Creative Lead, Jake Stewart, and his two co-workers James Ortiz and Andrew Defee explain a bit of what the team envisions for the DayZ Bounty system.

“I consider it like playing skins in golf,” says Stewart. “Almost like a VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars] or a Rotary club, where everyone has a say. Everyone has input. Everybody understands where everybody’s at and where all the money is going. We can vote on things. The community can take a vote on it and we go from there. That’s kind of what we’re getting at—having a huge involvement with everybody. If you pay your five dollars, you’re part of what we’re doing.”

The idea for the project emerged from a DayZ group that Ortiz and Stewart played in. “We started a kind of hero clan, ‘Super Hero Medic Squad.’ All we did was try and help people.” says Stewart. “One night, we got drunk and started messing around, and I was like, ‘Screw it. I’m bored. I’m tired of helping people. I’m going rogue.’ We all started killing each other.”

Then, they started placing bets.

“I’ll give you five dollars if you can take me out,” he continues. “And all of a sudden, I thought: this is a fun way to play. This’d be great if we had a whole community of people that were doing the same type of thing."

A community driven betting system where real world money is exchanging hands based off of killing other players or other criteria? It's so crazy, it just might work!

(via PC Gamer)

[jimykx]

Lool, they have been trying to figure out ways to make people not kill each other in the game because it was too much of a deathmatch. They wanted to encourage them to teamwork. So now they just said "fuck it", we can't do it so we might as well turn killing each other into something more interesting