I'd enjoy it more if I figure out how to install the thing.

Is there an install program out there that patches and update everything automatically reducing my workload to just putting the Arma2 CO disc into the disc drive ?

If you have a working copy of arma2 and operation arrowhead just google sickboys addon, called sixlauncher.

Run it and pick a server and it will install the mod and grab the arma patches for it, then hit play. Even i can do it :}

Thanks UnderTheRadar for so clearly laying that out. This is the very heart of DayZ. It is a survival SIMULATION. The real human threat element can never be duplicated in single player.

As someone who primarily plays solo and eschews most online gaming, I understand perfectly why there is no single player DayZ mode. This was designed from the ground up to be a social experiment/interaction. It wouldn't work offline.

I must be the only one who enjoyed playing it single player then.

Errr.. NO! At least not in my case - Actually I do enjoy some RPG games very much! Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are two examples of RPG games that I enjoy very much and these games are definitly in the group of my favourite games.
Any and all decent RPG games such as Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas always have a Story, missions related to the story, side missions and AN END (at least storyline wise) and it's the lack of these features (which I underlined) that drives me to completly dislike DayZ and saying that DayZ is a "typical RPG game" and that people that don't like RPGs are the ones that don't like DayZ is also something that I completly disagree on!

Like someone already mentioned here in this thread I also find annoying that everytime I want to search an ArmA2 Co-op server I basically only find DayZ servers (Days infested ArmA2). Yes, I know that I can put in the filter "Domination", "Evo", "Warfare", etc... but those missions that I quoted aren't my favourite ones, what I really like to play in ArmA2 regarding MP are "simple" Co-Op missions and DayZ really made the finding of such missions a much harder task!

Thanks. Got it up and running.

Getting too old for these patience type games.And I don't feel the tension when a zombie kills me.
Walking around for a long time and finding nothing and not knowing where you are bores me.
But I'm on the wrong side of the fence because every man and his dog seems to love this mod.
BI would be licking their lips because a community mod has made them a house of cash.

Gees a miilion and one zombie and vampire shows on TV now.
I'm a bit over the whole thing that GEN Yers seem to love.
I hated Buffy when everyone around me loves it.

Gave up on tactical shooters and back simracing(flight sims are way over my head and only people born with the better genes are lucky enough to enjoy them.)Cougar gathering dust.(great for ROF I guess)

Back in Iracing and love it.

IRacing isn't nowhere near real life racing either because of zero gravity forces or backside in the seat feel and NO FEAR of being injured or worse.

Still it's a great bit of fun.

And that's what gaming is for me, fun.
Not grinding my brain into a deep state of self hate and depression.

With racing ,you can be crap and still get fun out of it because you're still moving.You're not stuck in a state of flux.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas are a league above Dayz imho.
Love those games.

So much to do and explore.
Most of the houses in the Dayz mod you can't explore.

Oh I'm hopeless at direction so that's another reason why I hate the Dayz mod.
I keep ending up at the same places all the time and forget my steps.