Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley has gone on record and confirmed the importance that DayZ has had on their recently announced zombie MMO, H1Z1.
Smedley, in response to a fan on Twiter suggesting that the new game had to be better than DayZ, said: "I happen to think Day Z is an incredible game. H1Z1 wouldn't exist if not for Day Z. I don't want to run from that."
On the new Reddit for H1Z1, Smedley also opened the floor for ideas for monetising the game, in the process outlining a few suggestions and SOE's thinking at this early stage:
I wanted to take this opportunity to solicit ideas from people interested in H1Z1 regarding how we monetize it. You will be surprised to hear we have intentionally left the decisions about what to monetize until we can hear from you. This isn't some contrived thing.. I'm being serious. It is a nearly blank slate.
 So the floor is open for ideas. I'm going to have a few simple requests for your thinking process:

1) This will be a F2P game (after early access). During early access it's going to cost $19.99 to play.

2) We are not interested in selling weapons. Weapons are only acquired by crafting or exploring and finding one. We are not selling power.

3) The game at it's core is about survival. Our preference is not to sell ANYTHING that can help with that. If this game is too hard for you play another one. We don't want to give shortcuts for our core mechanic.

4) Wearables - we DO see wearables as an obvious "heck yes" kind of thing. I think it's perfectly reasonable to have most wearables be purchasable. Of course we will still have plenty to craft, find and wear for free.

5) We made this game because we love making games and entertaining our players is why we exist. That being said, we do need to make money. Your ideas are appreciated greatly but if we can avoid the "hey give us everything for free because you owe it to us since you're a big company and we should get free games" commentary it would help a lot.
So with the above in mind, we welcome a serious dialogue about this. We're listening and if you want to have a say in this, now's the time.
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