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Dead By Daylight is going to NEED competition soon
Dead By Daylight man. If i’m being honest, i find the game extremely boring and unfun to play. It’s fallen into being too competitive. People are getting too smart and it makes it too difficult to be killer!!!!! It can be the other way around as well. The only reason i think people play DBD is because it’s like the only horror game that we have that still gets updates and stuff.
For example: You know when you are really hungry for some food and go to the fridge and there is nothing there? then minutes later you’ll go check again because you are letting some of your preferences go, until the point where you would eat anything.
that’s why dbd is still alive. people are still playing DBD because that’s all they got. When they have competition, i personally think they won’t last.
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There has been competition, it just hasn't been as good as dbd. And no one is forcing you to stay. Using your own example, no one is forcing you to eat. And if you really feel the need, you can always go try new foods, or even create something new yourself
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Not true for console players. Friday 13th was immeasurably better than Dbd, but died because of the licence issue.
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It started dying before that happened though. The moment everyone realized how simple it was to beat the hell out of jason, the game started to die. No one wanted to play jason anymore as it became a "bully the killer" situation, as well as the numerous ways to bug him out to prevent him from killing anyone, or even just straight up sending him to space with a baseball bat.
The license issue sped it up because of not being able to fix that or add new content. But it was sadly a dying game already.
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Why DBD needs competition if, actually, you're telling it's gonna die if there is competition?
Just leave if you don't enjoy. There are games like DBD. I've heard of some, like Propnight or something, like VHS.
All these games can live together without killing each other.
It's like saying you can only have one RPG game. Choose yours.
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Console player.
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Never happened when I was Jason 😉
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F13 was still a much better game regardless
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Competition is important for health, so certainly competition is needed, but the vast majority of games have been worse. Really, only Identity V has offered any long-term competition, and even that's because it's stuck closely to the DBD formula.
There's been a lot of hype about VHS, but that's not to say they'll make mistakes as they grow. Other promising games such as Last Year that offered a strong base just never capitalised, and others such as White Day were just over-hyped.
I hope VHS does well, as wellas any other game which tries to make a mark in this market. But the best thing people can do to get a good competitor is just to stop comparing it to DBD and view it as its own game. The moment it's compared, immediately it will be thrown into a battle it's not prepared for. It needs to build slowly and gain its own identity.
Personally, I'll happily continue DBD, but if a good, similar game came along I'd just play both!
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I found some games that are very similar to DBD. but the games are from China and they are not adding servers for players outside of China and Korea. playing their game is just unplayable because of massive lag.
VHS and Propnight are going to be live soon and we'll see if there will be competition and a drastic change in the number of players.
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Then you didn't play for long. You can look up videos of it happening if you need proof. There was also the fact that if you played as the runner chick, and Jason was a varient that couldn't run and only walk, if you juked his ghosty teleport thing, he could never catch you even with fatigue. There were plenty of games that I would just run around the graveyard gates til the 20 min timer was up and wouldn't ever be caught. And even if I failed a juke, well alright here take a pocket knife to the face and do it again. And then again after that. The game devolved to a bully sim even more so than dbd
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DBD needs good competition to become a better game. The devs are complacent and have no motivation to bring the it closer to its potential. They’re content to coast by, one tiny bug-riddled update at a time.
Look at the most recent patch. Don’t get me wrong it was nice, but it was hailed as one of the largest and greatest updates in the game’s history, yet it was tiny compared to what most other multiplayer games push out, even most indie developers with a handful of coders offer more.
BVHR have the resources to actually make DBD a great game but they simply refuse to do so because they’re happy with where they are.
If DBD had competition this whole time it would be in a much better state, with more content of a higher quality.
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Dont presume. I played since launch for nearly 3 years, and only as Jason 3, who could run. Never had anyone loop me like that. A few escapes sure, but being Jason felt so much more powerful than dvd.
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Clearly it is more successful. I can't argue that. But nobody could ever convince me dbd is a better game. Not a chance.
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Friday the 13th I guess?
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While its not the exact same type of game 1 for 1 I would say vhs could bring good competition
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So.. when it started to resemble DBD?
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The difference is that in dbd you can combat it by not doing the things survivors want you to do that get you bullied. In F13 you could try killing someone and literally get bugged out by a survivor and not be able to even play the rest of the match. F13 is a dead game, dbd is not. It's hard to say that F13 was a better game with that being the case
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And hey, now that F13 can be worked on and updated.. if it comes back to life I'll eat my hat. But I bet you anything it won't.
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It's also hard to say that it got a fair shot, considering the legal issues caused them to halt work on it prematurely.
DBD in 2017 and F13 in 2017 were remarkably similar in the balance department.
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The game NEEDS competition. Monopolies are never good for any consumers. It's the monopoly they have which is leading to the game being so lazily managed. It's also a factor to the poor balancing. Where else are we going to go for a game like this? There is nowhere to go.
Nearly 2022 and there has still not been any game like DBD to challenge it. That is appalling. We are all waiting for the next thing to challenge DBD because competition makes people work harder to be better than the other. Which in turn is better for consumers because they try to keep the consumer with new benefits.
The whole history of Europe is an example of why competition is so beneficial. Look at how fast Europe progressed compared to the rest of the world due to the insane competition between each other.
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It needs a proper, non-minigame competitor on AAA scale. As it is right now, no smaller studio is capable of releasing a title that can compete with what DbD already has. If such small releases aren’t just dead on arrival, they need a super solid idea, divine levels of polish and not feel like it’s going to get repetetive two days in.
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Hello from the JPN forum.
This is a very casual game, and although 2k2e advertises it as supremely balanced, this is very divergent from current game systems.
I think the SBMM (MMR) and score system best represents this.
I feel that these two systems have instilled a competitive player mindset in me.
Also, in the case of the killer, I feel that if you don't do at least 4k, you will be bullied, which also reinforces the competitive idea.
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Anything that doesn't have the killer on a strict timer or getting stunned a ton is good enough for me. Sadly, game creators are so uncreative on average, that's exactly what it usually turns into.
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There will never be competition because no game is like Dead by Daylight. These other games in the genre could never compete with DBD. Not because they are bad, they weren't, they were probably better games than DBD, they are just completely different. DBD can't compete with them other but that is because the are not trying to. Like VHS. VHS is not gonna compete but DBD won't compete with it either. Because they are very different.
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If DBD has any amount of good competition, BHVR would need to step it up or the game would die out to someone doing it better. However that has yet to happen and that is just how it be. BUT!
Prop Night and VHS might actually have a chance at giving that competition
I am particularly keen on VHS
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You're exaggerating. I played F13 religiously for a year. Pocket knives were annoyances. That's it. I only got killed by a sweater girl and Tommy twice and I played Jason most of the time. The lawsuit killed that game and that's it.
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VHS is coming out soon. That will be some major competition for DBD. Especially with a F2P model.
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