Deadside players will commiserate over a dead dog and then stab you

Playing Nice is an irregular series about the power of being not a dick in online games. Today, Sin fails to form a band in zombieless DayZ-alike Deadside. I forgot the name of Deadside within seconds of closing it. Even looking at its store page raises… not alarm bells, exactly, but some negative assumptions. It looks a lot like a lot of other, not very good games fighting for a place in the ultra-hostile, grim Eastern European PvP shooter leagues. But what is it really? Well. It’s DayZ again. (more…)