Viewpoint from an Amateur player to the Devs

Moloxia · August 2021

This game is pure toxic. The endless trolling. You guys didn't make a great game, u tailored an experiment that just shows how disgusting people can be, behind the anonymous comfort of a pc.

I could compile a whole list of what makes this game unbearable; but it comes down to this : you ALLOW this behaviour by not attempting to balance it out, for five years straight.

By all means, act as if its all good and fun and an amazing dev team, whilst churning out some more money with cosmetics.

I don't have it in me to play to win at the cost of putting others in a bad mood by teabagging, facecamping, tunneling, sabotage spamming, bodyblocking, flashlight abusing...

You give people the tools to relish in annoying others, "Behaviour" interactive. Devs like you should be sentenced to a lifetime of suffering the same feeling that many other beginners have to go through trying to get into this game.

Don't proudly boast about your 36 million player base. Of all those, you have... 60k average players, give or take ?

The horror aspect you preach at ? Non-existent.

Save for an odd M. Myers jumpscare here and there its not horrifying, only the bland frustration and utter fear of matching in a bad game. (Win or lose, pip or de-pip, besides the point; there isn't a point if most matches are simply not fun due to exploiting core belief elements)

I find it awful turning a blind eye to this and the only reason why this game has seen such longevity is because you use the momentum of streamers like Otz who as professional DbD players have far surpassed any hurdles and shortcomings of this game and have grown attuned to dealing with them.

These successful 1% are not the measurement you have to look at to grade your game. Its the streamers themselves, not this weak garbage stress-inducing game, that make their content enjoyable.

Start looking at the complaints of the newer/average/amateur players to grade your game by.

I wish I could look people like yourselves in the eye whilst you try to understand and correct these buildups of anger your game brings forth; instead of ignoring all pleas for help that you choose to blatantly ignore and instead focus on DLC sales numbers ( "Who cares about this negative post, look, hellraiser sales are skyrocketing")

I am one of many, many, MANY people that want to like this game so hard, but feel demotivated and discouraged due to silly implementations.

I just can't keep playing this as it is, and the very fact that this vicious game will continue to thrive whether or not I myself uninstall it, gnaws at me. If only I could hold the servers hostage until you at least read through some of the players' complaints at the very least...

Adressed to all the devs in Behaviour interactive that have something to do with shaping the mechanics of this game.

PS: To anyone else reading this; I'm sorry for this rant and hope I didn't offend other players; feel free to share your perspective if you want to.