The War Z - MMO con Zombies!

Today I want to talk about stages of our game development process and how you'll be able to get into game.

Lets start with game itself - unlike most other retail games, The War Z development is not ending with game release - it actually will be only beginning of hopefully long journey together with our players and fans. We'll be hiring more people to work on new content and new worlds, we'll be adding new features and tweaking existing ones. Think of game as service - we'll be providing you guys with entertainment service and will be absking you to help us shape it into something you want to play more.

Closed Alpha
This journey already started last month, when we've announced game and launched our first stage of the game testing - Closed Alpha. We've deployed our first game servers, and let few hundred people who we know under very strict NDA to test game. At this stage there're lots of things that are changing on daily basis - UI, game mechanics, game parameters, etc. For a last few weeks we've been adding more and more players to the game, but still - this is pretty small base of people to really test game. While they provide valuable feedback about game, real work will start at our next stage.

Closed Beta
This will be our first big milestone. By that time we expect game to be stable enough, so we can allow dozens of thousands of people to try game. This will be first real test for our game code, with literally thousands of players trying to break game every single second. We'll get feedback on stats, game balancing, how fast you need to starve, what is optimal dureation of day/night cycle, how often we need to spawn items, etc, etc.
At this point you only be able to purchase game from our website. Everyone who will purchase game at specially discounted price will get into closed Beta. We also send out keys to our hardware and software partners, gaming websites who will run promotional giveaways, we'll distribute keys on our facebook page. But that time everyone who we chose on facebook and our forums as well as randomly selected people who registered on our website will recieve beta keys. going forward there'll be no stats or character wipes - so whenever we';ll go into open beta or official game release - you'll keep your closed beta characters and gear, giving you edge to new players.

Open Beta
Open beta will be true public event - game will be availa