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Will you forgive the devs?
Let's talk about this chapter. Tons of bugs, yeah. But take in mind that:
1 There's Corona
2 There's covid
3 There's a virus
So they're working from home
And 4 they need money unless right now you all donate 10$/€/£ to the devs as a donation, and I mean now
So, will you forgive the devs if this chapter is a bit meh?
Keep in mind that the rest of the game is still playable
Will you forgive the devs? 116 votes
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If they fix their mistakes, yes.
If not, no.
It's as simple as that.
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No
If this was a first time thing then I'd be more inclined to forgive. Every patch they break a bunch of things, fix 25-50 percent of the things they break, then release a new patch that breaks a bunch of other things. Granted it's never happened on this big of a scale before but it's looks like they threw out a bunch of stuff to get money and left testing and bug reporting up to us.
If they choose to actually spend time and right their wrongs, then it's possible for me. Unfortunately I have a feeling not even 25 percent of it will be fixed before they decide to release another broken killer/survivor/cosmetic cash grab.
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Not sure how to answer, I'm getting sick of all those game breaking bugs, there are even bugs still in the game that are 4 years old, like the phantom saw from Billy.
After 4 years they still don't test their game well enough to see the glaring issues with their new perks and Killers, Twins locker fiasco + the Killer is really bad if you don't slug, which isn't fun for the other side.
Some of their decisions are mind blowing, in a bad way, like nerfing already trash perks (Coup de Grâce) and releasing completely broken chapter with even more bugs than the PTB had.
But on the other hand they are working from home, so if I see any improvements in couple of weeks I will be happy, but probably never forgive them for this chapter.
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Yes
I can forgive them IF they right their wrongs and also never release a patch like this again. Above anything else, I just hope DBD gets some genuine major competition. DBD's position as having a monopoly on the asymmetrical horror genre has obviously led them to become complacent. This isn't the first time they've released broken patches (Obviously not as bad as this but still). If they had competition they couldn't even consider pulling something like this or they'd tank their playerbase as pissed off players would move to the other game.
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Yes
forgiveness is fickle but I wish no ill will on the developers themselves, they're obviously trying their best and the real problems come from the company's management of their game. I do want DBD to succeed because it's not only fun and could be better, but also because the failure of DBD also means the potential failure for BEhaviour, as DBD is their sole game, and I don't want hundreds to lose their jobs because of higher up incompetence out of their control.
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Yes
yes cuz none of it matters
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Maybe, depends on what they do in the next 6 months to the game.
Keep in mind they were already doing kind of bad before the pandemic.
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forgive what? I dont know them, they are just people doing their jobs and if they are doing a bad job they deserve to be called out.
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Only if they bring back end game pig
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No
They messed up. They released unfinished content instead of fixing content that already exists. Issues like that will only compound with time, unless they take a break from making DLC and focus on building a good core game and above all listen to fan feedback instead of a spreadsheet. I've been playing for years and I'm going to take a long break until the gameplay and balance is solid, and if that time doesn't come then I'm not coming back.
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Yes
For most of them, from what they say, it's not only a job, it's a passion
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Yes
People who say no are just have no care about difficulty it takes during this pandemic.
Sure complain yeah I understand but not forgive, how pathetic that your so entitled and can’t chill over some bugs.
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No
How's it pathetic to give criticism when you're just as much as being the sheepherder's tryhard by buying cosmetics and calling it a day? What people want is to not have a buggy game, have perks be looked at for potential fixes in terms of balancing. What we need is less greed, developers not cherry picking questions for the QnA and them actually hearing the community out to make the game be better for other players. There's even steam graphs showing that the playerbase has dropped to 40k players and that raises concerns my friend. You can look that up if you want. I already posted screenshots of that in 2 threads or so and I even made a thread specifying problems in the game's community about that. What really irks me is that people keep correlating issues with "drama," that's not what this is, I may not speak for everybody here but what we want is technical issues being fixed and those expectations are not being met at all. The consumers may not be right all the time but if we have concerns with issues like these, then we're gonna start criticizing. Things I don't wanna be seeing is people being silenced for speaking out, that has happened already with a certain coconut as one commentator pointed out.
So for them it's more of a phrase such as "shut up, don't complain just buy it and play it."
This video speaks alot.
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Yes
Dud nearly 40% would not forgive. The voice is strong
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No
no I wont for a lot of reasons
and I pissed because I missed out on a charm NAUGHTYSTOCKING code don't work anymore sorry I not glued to tweeter to see there was codes
there gone the no more exclusives
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Yes
After all, they are humans.
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No
Virus?! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Send help please
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Yes
I'll forgive them if they can fix their mistakes.
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No
I'm not sure if this is fair balanced ranking right here too.
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Yes
Wow. 43% more would not forgive the devs. Maybe even more after this video.
btw @MrGimmsYouTube I know that Corona, Covid and "virus" are the same thing, in fact the message was ironical
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Yes
This forum is so overly dramatic.
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Yes
It is not really related to the pandemic. The change to home office is a one time effort for an IT company. There are enough tools for remote teamwork and in my company I even did that already because it is an international team merged together. The company my brother works for needed like one week of preparation to get everything set up.
It is a different situation but the quality should not be affected at all.
Btw I think the GF chapter was worse, which had less complicated content and no survivor. At least the bugs were more game breaking on PTB
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No
Really,gonna have to agree with DoritoHead.
I can wait, because of "Current events".
But, they do need to do something..I think they need to rethink a few things.
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Yes
So, how will that ‚I Don’t forgive the devs‘- thing work anyway?
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Yes
Of course. I love DBD, I very much like the team overall, and I think if they had the choice, the game designers would have loved to delay the release a little bit.
I´ve been through worse times with DBD, and I like the direction the game is taking on several levels.
The few very glaring issues which urgently need addressing (Object, Killer Power disparity, SWF balance vs Soloq balance, Haddonfield/Asylum) will hopefully be dealt with in time ( I´d appreciate sooner than later, though).
Give these guys a break, I´m sure they love their product as much as we do.
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Ironic.. Right ok lol.
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No
It isnt just one chapter they make terrible choices without fail.
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No
The rest of the game is still playable. Tell that to my boy legion being broken or unbreakable shack pallets.
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No
Also wdym give a donation. Its a paid game. I gave a 20 euro dontation and also bought the rift myer and bubba. Stop treating BHVR like an indie studio DBD is a pretty big game.
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No
they literally said they werent gonna change object lmao
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Yes
I´m very well aware of that. On the other hand, the overwhelming negative feedback on that statement on twitter, reddit, the forums and content creators propably (or hopefully) inclined Almo to reconsider. He´s not dumb, he will know that there is a problem when there are such massive complaints all over the place. Mathieu intervened in the same interview about the issue, and I refuse to give up hope that the nastiest of perks will be addressed soon.
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No
Not based on that reasoning, no. COVID is making things hard for everyone, but BHVR isn't helpless in this situation. It's entirely possible to say, "The pandemic has made it so that we can't keep our original schedule; let's change the schedule." There's always stuff you can do besides releasing shoddy work and hoping everyone accepts it.
As for whether the dev team actually has any control over the schedule, or if it's being set by an executive somewhere, I don't know. But whoever made that decision chose wrong.
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No
Well, I'm sure they were all still just on seperate computers working on the game so they can still do that at home, just gotta do voice calls and some kind of file share if they didn't do that already. Not much of a reason, if it was they should've been delaying.
I've been forgiving them for the past 3 years telling others to stop berating them.
However, I'm losing hope due to various decisions and I've just stopped caring honestly.
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I can forgive there actions just not there response
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Yes
Why do they need "forgiveness"?
Did they kill someone's dog?
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Yes
I'm going to hope you're memeing about the donation part.
Anyway, I'm obviously going to forgive the devs. They are people just like us and have their own lives, therefore we shouldn't be so entitled to them being perfect with every chapter/update/decision-making.
Do I think they don't listen to their playerbase as much as they should? Yes.
Do I think we should express that? Yes.
But should we be awful human beings about it? No.
Express your opinion and leave it at that. If you want to quit DBD, then quit. Just don't take it out on others. Be civil.
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No
No. Don't blame the virus for the devs incompetence.
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