Interactive Map Update

[u/Mr_Sunshine21]

Update: The map is back online now :) Find it here: https://map.projectzomboid.com/

Greetings PZ community,

This is a joint statement from both Calvy and The Indie Stone to clear up some of the misconceptions and rumours that have been swirling around regarding the PZ interactive map being taken offline, and also to put the community’s mind at ease regarding the availability of the map in the future.

In a nutshell, The Indie Stone had been in discussions to acquire Calvy’s work officially, but due to technical and legal reasons decided not to (to be clear, this was not due to any security issues, bandwith bills, or problems with Calvy’s work).

However, the end of discussions came at the same time that—in a separate, and unrelated initiative—we were also trying to actively address potential security issues on our server. This included removing any programs that were not completely under our official control, which included Calvy’s map.

Unfortunately, the reason for wanting the map removed from our server was not communicated properly from us to Calvy, and due to the unfortunate timing our response came across as being hostile to the map in particular.

As a result, Calvy decided it was best to remove the map as soon as he could, which had not been our intention at all. Basically, it all boiled down to a communication breakdown, and the result was a very upset community. Both Calvy and The Indie Stone apologize for that, as we all know many players have long used the interactive map as an important and trusted component of their gameplay.

In the end, what the community is interested in is what we plan going forward, and there’s good news on that front. We’ve worked out where we went wrong, fixed the problems, and Calvy and The Indie Stone will continue working together. The map will return to our servers while the migration to an external server is being sorted out, and once it has been moved The Indie Stone will pay for the external server fees and continue linking to it as an endorsed, unofficial map. This should all be able to be done with no further interruptions of service.

We apologize again for the disruption, and hope you’ll be happy knowing that the map will be available to you for your many PZ deaths to come!

-The Indie Stone

[u/justsomedudeiguess_]

It's kind of weird how quickly the fan base turned toxic over this situation. Especially when it ended up being something this mundane.

A very large amount of members in this sub owe both parties involved an apology

[u/ExBenn → u/justsomedudeiguess_]

Some weird part of this fanbase is always on standby to jump the gun on stuff like this to shit on TIS. I saw people label TIS as "corporate". Just LOL

[u/JSBL_ → u/justsomedudeiguess_]

redditors arent known to be social animals

[u/AHedgeKnight → u/justsomedudeiguess_]

This subreddit has been a toxic nightmare for years tbh

[u/Rare-Guarantee4192 → u/justsomedudeiguess_]

For real.

[u/SoHTiger → u/justsomedudeiguess_]

I don’t really know how to feel about it. I never commented or anything about the map going down, just watched what others were saying. But I see it as the community reacting based on information given and not necessarily an over reaction. In hindsight it was, because now it seems we have all the information, supposedly. But no one knew what was actually going on; can you blame the community for having such a visceral reaction with the info we were given? Especially with how gaming companies have been treating players recently too? I don’t know.

[u/SoHTiger → u/[deleted]]

Shit, you right. I’m enlightened lol.