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Does anyone actually fall for the transparent PR ploys?

Member Posts: 4,212

The new chapter dropped and the first week was filled with posts about how little impact it had on getting new players or bringing old players back.

Then suddenly we get a "rAnDoM" event which encourages everyone to log in daily for 1-2 matches worth of bloodpoints, and wow, we're probably going to see the player numbers go up regardless of whether people do more than open the game, claim the bonus, then close it again.

I wish I wasn't cynical enough to look at it that way, but am I the only one tired of getting attention and rewards from the game only when they feel threatened? Used to be events were announced well in advance because they were about enjoying the game, now it's more like "oops, chapter flopped, fudge the numbers" or "a high profile game is releasing? time for another 1.5x weekend!"

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  • Member Posts: 8,077

    Shrug. I think it's a bit of column A (planned event), column B (an attempt to buffer the numbers in the wake of a mediocre DLC launch) and column C (an attempt to help alleviate the grind a little).

  • Member Posts: 3,255

    A lot of games work on FOMO. For me if I'm going to play the game anyway, I take advantage of whatever is going on. If I don't have time to play, then I don't have time to play.

    It does work on a lot of younger people. I guarantee if they put a cute puppy charm for playing 3 matches in for a limited time you'd have a massive surge in players. It's just the way it is. Why it works in hide and seek murder game I dunno, but that's just how people do be.

  • Member Posts: 5,762

    Snowman was a one ######### mistake no one should ever consider good, anything else is good.

  • Member Posts: 1,443

    I find it a bit annoying cause I do have a bit of negative view for obvious reasons, but I think these type of things are fine. It doesn't fix the issue of the grind but it helps.

  • Member Posts: 134

    They have said more than once that they have no problems getting new players but have more trouble with keeping them. They depleted the pool of possible new players with certain chapters and free weekends. The stranger things dlc brought even in a lot people that barely play games. Looking at how they released a damn kpop killer is just them getting desperate to keep the numbers high. Now even licensed killers don't draw in more players because there are non left. It will only go downhill from here. To be fair I'm happy for it since they just hardcore milked this game from the start because of the monopoly. No decrease in amateur behaviour of the dev team in all these years... Even dbd2 will fail at this point

  • Member Posts: 4,232

    Yep, just reinstalled yesterday and played for the first time since December a few rounds.

    0k in all except 2 pig rounds were i tried the 4 rbt trap challenge and decided to go for adept too. First was with the iri addon that put all traps on survivor at the beginning but didn't count towards the challenge 😜.

  • Member Posts: 4,232

    And this is again why i main oni. Most people don't hate or even like him, especially since i don't slug.

  • Member Posts: 257

    idk how you can be that much negative without any points unless you are 10years old pretending adult

    braindead negativity not gonna help them anyway

    contents of one game eventually depleted no matter what, least this game gonna survive longer than elden ring

  • Member Posts: 1,243
    edited March 2022

    Yeah,BHVR are easy to read,its obvious they do this just to make players log in at least.

    They only care about money to the point,they want to put the least amount of effort for the most rewards,this shows me they dont really care about their own game or community,they only care about how much money they make out of it,they're not a passionate game developer company that actually cares about their product.

    They showed us this time and time again,if they really cared,a lot of issues the game has would have been fixed a long time ago.

  • Member Posts: 273

    This game is already brain dead. Since they started changing HUD, maps and everything else

  • Member Posts: 273

    So right! Take all my ++++ exactly, they care only about money so yeah... And another question, does anyone use all those thousands off useless charms???

  • Member Posts: 1,243

    The only charms worth using are the animated hook ones.

    And for survivor are the ones that are bigger and bright.

    80% of all charms is useless filler.

  • Member Posts: 4,212

    I can safely say I've never noticed what charms a survivor is using, except just ot see a bright colour when they try to crouch in a corner.

    Hook ones are alright, I equip them if they match the killer but I don't go out of my way to care about them.

  • Member Posts: 22,890

    I notice the pride charm basically all the time. That's it.

  • Member Posts: 88

    Mad about free stuff

  • Member Posts: 714

    Exactly my thoughts when I've seen this event, too bad, i will just open get the shards and close the game right after

  • Member Posts: 5,295

    When i said i wanted more events, i meant stuff like the hallowed blight event. Logging in to claim a reward is not what i call an event. Its lazy.

  • Member Posts: 4,914

    Some people are happy with this, some do not care. I'm not sure what your point is.

    I've spread the news about the current event to my not-playing-anymore friends and some of them will login every day to get the bonus.

    That being said I'm almost disappointed the new chapter looks so unsuccessful. (No, I'm not playing Sadako anymore either)

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