I think the people complaining about airdrops simply havn’t played the game. There’s really no reason for anyone who has played the game to hate airdrops. Lets look at the facts:
H1Z1 requires 100 people on a SMALLER MAP than DayZ to even initiate an airdrop (or it will very quickly so sayeth the CEO, currently it requires 50.) The cap on players in DayZ is 50. We already require 2x the amount of players on a server as DayZ is allowed just to air drop.
Characters do NOT transfers server to server. You can not just pull up a character from an unpopulated server then transfer them to a populated server. You want to get equipped on a 200+ man server? Then you’re going to be fighting the 10+ people that see the plane and walk to the drop.
The plane is LOUD. It is VERY visible. And it stays in the air for a long time. People with cars use other player’s airdrops as free loot dispensers, and people with rifles use it as a human deer hunt simulator.
Much like DayZ it’s not hard to luck in to an AR15 and ammo. I don’t know why we’re all pretending that getting a gun is some badge of honor. I walked in to a police station after some moron aggro’d like every zombie and walked out with an AR15 + pistol + ammo. No money spent at all! So even if you DO get the military box that dropped it’s probably a hell of a lot easier and safer to go in to a city and raid a police station, which we should all know by now is extremely dangerous.
It takes 10 seconds of time to unpack the military box dropped from the plane. You know who can kill you in 10 seconds? Literally anyone within a 3 mile radius that saw the plane and thought “oh boy, goodies!” You can not move during those 10 seconds. You can cancel it, but then you have to restart it.
I really truly and honestly do not understand why so many hate the concept. SoE is charging players to basically push an “excitement” button for a server. That’s a good idea! It is NOT free loot, it is beyond dangerous, it attracts everybody even people without guns to the area. I’ve seen 3 friends call in an air drop and get completely murdered because 10 people with their fists showed up and beat them to death. Then those 10 people beat each other to death. Then I left with a shotgun with no ammo.
Seriously just TRY it before you say Pay2Win. It’s not Pay2Win. It’s Pay2Excite.