{"id":55473,"date":"2013-06-20T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55473"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:24:43","slug":"the-war-z-renamed-infestation-survivor-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/55473-the-war-z-renamed-infestation-survivor-stories","title":{"rendered":"The War Z renamed Infestation: Survivor Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was ever a sign of guilt, the zombie-survival clone of DayZ, The War Z has changed its name to Infestation: Survivor Stories.<\/p>\n

“This change has come about primarily as a result of some confusion and trademark issues with a similarly titled property,” said a message on the game\u2019s official forums.<\/p>\n

“While we were reluctant to rename the game so long after launch, especially with nearly 1 million registered players, it was ultimately decided to be in the best interest of our existing community as well as future players in order to eliminate confusion.”<\/p>\n

War Z was originally labelled as a \u201ccopy\u201d after its name, gameplay style and features were uncannily similar to that of the super-popular ARMA 2 mod, DayZ.<\/p>\n

The further aggravate gamers, The War Z suffered through an atrocious launch and an onslaught of negative criticism for the poor quality and bug-ridden gameplay. Developer Hammerpoint Interactive was initially combative in the face of criticism, but was eventually forced to hand out refunds and make apologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The War Z devs were probably also pretty embarrassed when it was revealed that they had copy-pasted the League of Legends terms of use agreement, without even changing the text<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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War Z screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Infestation: Survivor Series forum<\/a><\/h6>\n

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DayZ creator very angry about The War Z<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

War Z developer apologizes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

War Z pulled from Steam amid storm of controversy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The War Z hacked<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

5 shameless rip-offs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

War Z producer calls campers \u201cf**gots\u201d, apologises<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

DayZ and War Z are similar, but different<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

War Z devs copy-paste League of Legends EULA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flesh-decaying survival game gets a re-branding; does anyone still care? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":46366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,10379,8209,7234,7235],"class_list":["post-55473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-infestation-survivor-stories","tag-op-productions","tag-the-war-z","tag-war-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55492,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55473\/revisions\/55492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}