Do You Want Stats Back?

Boss

I personally do, but let's see if there's a big enough demand for them. (Although polls usually don't get many votes anyway. 😜)

You know the stats: Sometimes the devs released statistics of the game, like how every Killer rank did at killing over the course of a month, or the pick rate of Perks, showing the most & least popular Perks.

Seiko300

I have a fairly neutral opinion about the topic, such that I can't really confidently say yes or no.

On the one hand, they were nice to have and to see, visually, what's going on within the DBD community as a whole.

On the other hand, these stats were very quickly and constantly referred back to by the community in ways or in conversations where they really didn't belong. In such a way that people were making very large leaps in logic and cited these very statistics as their evidence to validate their arguments with very little to no consideration for the myriad of other factors that influence whatever it was that they were talking about at the time.

If they bring them back it'll be cool, I'll definitely be interested in looking them over and ruminating / speculating / inferring on any hidden meaning or information that I might glean from them (despite this probably being exactly what creates the aforementioned problems I discussed, I'll still do it anyway lol).

If not, I understand exactly why, and it's not like I'll really miss them.

The statistics more often than not, just re-stated things that we already knew at the time and I think people overestimate exactly how much information they actually provide. For anybody who regularly engages with the community and participate in the various conversations that occur therein, you can pretty accurately and easily gauge the community's thoughts and feelings on a certain thing. Reading peoples forum posts, watching content creators on youtube or twitch talk about certain things or show off gameplay honestly takes you to about the same destination as Statistics do, if not more so because all those people will give reasons, arguments, and logic to back up what they're saying. Whereas Statistics are pretty empty in that regard, and give no reasons for why they are- they just are, in this way statistics can be considered kind of meaningless and useless.

Although every now and then something interesting crops up from them. Like what exactly is the most used Survivor or Killer perk, that's not something you'll really find even with enough digging on the forums or the internet. We can establish a meta, but not determine exactly what is the most frequently used, or by how much, how great of a margin over the next best thing.

I don't know, I think it's a more interesting and complex topic than people give it credit for. People are so quick to jump to answer sometimes without thinking. (As of writing 7 people have voted yes and nobody said No).