Day Z is a multiplayer Survival Game made by Boheima Interactive - Its core gameplay is derived from the experiences created by the community. As such community servers are a vital part to the success of Day Z.

Thankfully PC players have a whole range of hosting providers to choose from, including the ability to self host should they have the necessary hardware requirements. Which is amazing.

However, Console players are drawing the short straw in this scenario. We are forced to use Nitrado, who not only charge double what they do for a PC Server for consoles. But do not meet the necessary hardware requirements to support a community server with over 40 players on at once.

The overall issue with nitrado on console is Hardware, if they were to utilise the extortionate money they generate for console hosting into better hardware, or even gave us the option for hardware upgrades. We would be much happier.

But every 90 days (I personally pay £150) for a 70 slot server which is bottlenecked at around 30 - 40 players. Red Barrels, Lots of lag and choppy gameplay.

Please - Bohemia, Give us more hosting supplier options. Let us self host or start offering your own service which CAN handle the player base. Because if we all shut down our servers. Who would keep the game alive?

There have been other petitions too such as this one https://www.change.org/p/bohemiainteract-dayz-nitrado-nomorenitrado-we-re-fed-up-with-under-performing-servers

SO i am not alone in this thinking.

A monolopoly on hosting breeds complacency which means they will never inovate to offer improved services, because WHO is going to compete, if they have exclusivity?

Please hear our plea.