Best Of

To respond to a couple of those-

I don't think we want to dissuade BHVR away from actually monitoring perks before making decisions, I think completely divorced from this conversation about Fast Track there are plenty of reasons to monitor and assess how something is actually performing in the live environment, not just providing too-good results.
Again, I don't personally think Fast Track was a huge problem, but I do think the process of monitoring how and when a perk is used once it hits live is important.

For the second part, again, I think it's not just that it provided too much permanent progress in a vacuum, I think it provided too much permanent progress for the activation condition it had, in BHVR's eyes. Compare it to something like Specialist or Weaving Spiders, those perks take a lot more than Fast Track did.
They could've taken it back to non-permanent progress…. but that version of the perk was bad, so some rework is probably more appropriate even if you don't feel this one hits the mark.

Same reasoning for the "responsibility" portion, they're talking about what you put in for what you get, not that EVERY perk should require you to earn their effects. THIS perk should, in their eyes, BECAUSE it gives you permanent progress.
Remember, BHVR are just talking about one perk here, what they're saying is just about that one perk.

The incentive part is a little wishful, though, that I won't argue with.

After your responses I am inclined to agree with you. Let's hope they do it. Don Coscarelli wants him in the game. Im pretty sure he has reached out.

I do agree with you. A full chapter or nothing.

I think OP means that instead of the Survivor the community voted for, BHVR should make an attractive female Survivor. Which does not even make sense, since the attractive female Survivor people could vote for looks totally different than the image OP is using.

Except for the fact that with the way Victor moves by jumping, it wouldn't fit for a sentinel. Even someone like Skull Merchant would be a bad fit, despite also having drones. None of the killers really fit The Tall Man in any real way.

Also, the Dimensional Forks is arguably much more important to the character than the Sentinels and Lurkers are, since it's one of- if not the most defining aspect of his character, since it's directly related to his whole dimensional travel shtick and is how he's moving his zombie army around.

I repeat, if bhvr isn't gonna give me a Phantasm chapter, then they might as well not give it to me at all. It'd be way less disappointing to me, compared to the alternative of reducing the OG Slenderman and actual cult classic icon into that of just a skin.

In fact, the very thought of the idea lowkey honestly pisses me off slightly. I don't think that i would ever forgive bhvr for committing such egregious squandering of a cult icon.

I've talked about this one before but Jackie Estacado from The Darkness. If you have played the two games made in the 2000's or have read some of the comics, they can be pretty brutal and Jackie has a vast power set including summoning a black hole, plus his outfits are pretty awesome from his mobster suit to his costume he uses. His mori could be absolutely insane. If we cant get Jackie i will happily take Diablo or Spawn.

I know I'm repeating myself here, but it's not JUST the activation requirement they're talking about here. It's the activation requirement FOR THAT EFFECT.

There are not just similar perks on the killer side, there are similar survivor perks too. I gave a list a little further back - Kindred, Do No Harm, Low Profile, Desperate Measures, and Self Preservation all have close enough to the same activation requirement to be compared in this context, and none of those seem to be on the chopping block.
Similarly, there are survivor perks which have the same EFFECT, and they all require more from the player: Specialist requires chest searching and Weaving Spiders requires doing an Invocation.

I obviously can't speak for BHVR's internal conversations but what they've said to us is fairly logically consistent. Fast Track gave permanent generator progress, and required nothing but the opponent to be playing the game for it. Other perks that give permanent progress require more, and other perks that require just the opponent playing the game give less, or at least less direct benefits.
That's why it wasn't just nerfed. They're talking about the effect and activation combined.

Oni is fine now, he can barely down 3 people without losing power. And if survivors are good with their sprint bursts and aren’t greedy with pallets, he barely has enough juice for 2 competent survivors.

You won’t be seeing team wipes with one power use anymore unless your team makes a seriously bad blunder.

BHVR has A LOT of incentive to lie about their reasons, or to be more accurate, to not be truthful, since lying implies a deliberate attempt to deceive. They want to keep the loudest, whiniest, pettiest portion of the playerbase happy. It's not about balance, game design, or the player experience. There are a million other problems fifty times more egregious that have been festering in the game that nobody would complain about them addressing.

But those million other problems aren't the flavor of the month that a bunch of pissy people are complaining about NOW. And nothing else matter but them. BHVR is not paying attention to anybody but them. That's why BHVR uses the same language that they do. That's why BHVR validates and reassures them. Everyone else is told "we hear your concerns" and ignored.

BHVR doesn't need to LIE. They simply need to only listen to a certain group, and communicate to that group that their complaints will always be the only thing that matters, and will always be swiftly acted on while everyone else is left at their mercy of their whims.